Art Fairs London’s Eye of the Collector Fair Has Opened in a Victorian Mansion Where Boothless Art Mingles With History The boutique fair opened at Two Temple Place and runs through May 20. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, May 18, 2023
Crime A German Court Has Convicted Five Men Over Their Involvement in the Shocking $119 Million Dresden Jewel Heist The verdict comes after a lengthy 47-day trial. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, May 16, 2023
Archaeology Archaeologists Digging Along a Train Route in Mexico Have Found an Extremely Rare Statue of a Maya Deity The statue is one of only three known in the world. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, May 16, 2023
Shows & Exhibitions A Dutch Museum Has Organized a Rare Family Reunion for the Brueghel Art Dynasty—And the Female Brueghels Are Invited to the Party The show will will reunite five generations of the Brueghel family. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, May 15, 2023
On View Did Claude Monet Learn His Extraordinary Use of Color From His Brother, a Pigment Chemist? A New Show Looks at the Influence of Léon Monet The show includes never before seen paintings by Monet, as well as his adolescent sketchbooks. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, May 15, 2023
Auctions A Philadelphia Man Paid $6,000 for Cracked Church Windows He Saw on Facebook. Turns Out They’re Tiffany—and Worth a Half-Million The precious stained glass was set to be sledgehammered, but the antiques dealer intervened just in time. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, May 15, 2023
Art History Mona Lisa’s Other Secret—Where the Portrait Was Painted—May Have Been Solved by an Art Historian Using Drone Imagery Digital reconstruction matches a bridge in Tuscany to the one in Leonardo's painting. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, May 15, 2023
Galleries Gagosian Is Closing Its Britannia Street Gallery in London and Will Launch a New Public Art Program Instead The gallery has announced the new initiative Gagosian Open, which will bring art into public spaces By Jo Lawson-Tancred, May 12, 2023
Market Onetime Andy Warhol Superstar Baby Jane Holzer Is Selling Prints by the Artist for Fractional Ownership The company is trying to remove stigma now associated with buying art via the blockchain. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, May 12, 2023
Art Fairs The Newly Opened Photo London Includes Several A.I.-Generated Works to Showcase Artists’ Experiments With the Tool The works include those by Ori Gersht, Maisie Cousins, and kennedy+swan. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, May 11, 2023
On View Artist Marguerite Humeau Collaborated With A.I. to Explore the Life of Insects in Her New Otherworldly Sculptures. See Them Here "meys" at White Cube Bermondsey features work the artist created with GPT3 and DALL-E. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, May 11, 2023
Shows & Exhibitions Latvia’s RIBOCA Biennial Shut Down Its Third Edition When War Broke Out in Ukraine. Now It’s Back—Without Russian Funding The biennial has scrapped its original program to offer something that feels more relevant to the present moment. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, May 10, 2023
Art World The BBC Will Repair a Controversial Statue by a Disgraced Artist After a Protester Attacked It With a Hammer The national broadcaster will fit the work with a QR code to inform viewers about the artist's crimes. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, May 10, 2023
Museums Oops! A Clumsy Museum Visitor Tripped and Damaged an Ancient Chinese Bronze Sculpture of an Owl in Minneapolis Included in a new exhibition of ancient Chinese bronzes, the vessel was once used in rituals of ancestral worship. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, May 9, 2023
Archaeology Museum Workers Have Stumbled on 2,000 Missing Fragments of a Roman Wall Painting While Restoring an Ancient Theater Researchers hope to finally piece together the original mural using 1,500 other fragments that were discovered in 2006. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, May 8, 2023
