Art Fairs Overlooked Female Masters Are Getting Pride of Place at London’s Masterpiece Fair. Here Are a Few of Their Stories Paintings by women will be among the most exciting finds presented at Masterpiece this year, as the market continues to grow. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jun 29, 2022
On View In Pictures: See Grayson Perry’s Irreverent Tapestries, Which Tap Into British Class Anxiety, on View in Salisbury Cathedral Inspired by Hogarth's 'The Rake's Progress,' the works satirize social mobility in modern day Britain. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jun 29, 2022
Museums & Institutions The Orlando Museum of Art Has Fired Its Director After the FBI Raided a Show of Allegedly Fake Basquiats The museum is also investigating a threatening correspondence between the former director and an academic. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jun 29, 2022
Crime Armed Suspects Smashed a Jewelry Display at TEFAF Using a Mallet Before Jetting Off in Broad Daylight in a Getaway Car Local police says that two suspects have been apprehended. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jun 28, 2022
Museums & Institutions German Museums Announce a New Wave of Restitutions, With Plans to Return Objects to Namibia, Cameroon, and Possibly Tanzania The returns are the result of years-long negotiations. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jun 27, 2022
Museums & Institutions Surrounded by Visitors, the FBI Seized 25 Works Purportedly by Basquiat From a Florida Museum in a Mid-Day Raid The previously unseen works surfaced in 2012, after apparently spending three decades in a storage unit. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jun 27, 2022
Pop Culture Investors and Banks Hoping to Cash in on the Success of ‘Immersive Van Gogh’ Are Pouring Funds Into Art Experiences for Klimt, Kahlo, and More Immersive art experiences are proliferating around the globe, despite the often high price of tickets. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jun 26, 2022
Art & Exhibitions London Honors the Caribbean Migrants of the Windrush Generation With Two New Public Monuments The monuments have been installed at Waterloo Station and outside Hackney Town Hall. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jun 23, 2022
Auctions Young Painters Stole the Show (Again) at Phillips Hong Kong’s $27 Million Contemporary Art Sale The sale saw strong performances from rising stars Anna Weyant and Lucy Bull, who set a new auction record. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jun 22, 2022
Auctions Ernst Kirchner’s First-Ever Self-Portrait—and the First to Come to Auction in Decades—Could Sell for Nearly $15 Million The work is thought to have been inspired by Van Gogh's famous self-portrait with a straw hat and pipe. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jun 22, 2022
Museums & Institutions Sudanese Museum Officials Call on the U.K. to Return Looted Cultural Artifacts, Including Two Human Skulls The objects were taken by British colonizers as war trophies after a battle against Sudanese soldiers By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jun 21, 2022
Archaeology & History Archaeologists Believe They Discovered the Long-Lost Noggin of a Headless Hercules Statue in a Shipwreck at the Bottom of the Sea The find is likely the missing piece from a statue recovered at the same site more than a century ago. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jun 21, 2022
Law & Politics The Louvre Plans to Take Civil Legal Action in the Antiquities Smuggling Investigation That Has Ensnared Its Former Director The Louvre also says it stands by its partnership with the Louvre Abu Dhabi. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, May 31, 2022
Pop Culture Artle Is the Art-Historical Version of Wordle You Didn’t Know You Needed to Play The game, designed by the National Gallery of Art, has boosted the institution's web traffic by 40 percent. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, May 31, 2022
Art & Exhibitions London Is Getting a Permanent 30,000-Square-Foot Immersive Art Experience to Bring Kandinsky, Monet, and Other Legends to Life Frameless in Marble Arch will be the U.K.'s largest immersive art project, organizers say. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, May 26, 2022