Art Fairs The Fair Unseen Amsterdam Declares Bankruptcy After Key Backers Pull Out The international photography fair had boasted of the success of its last edition. By Kate Brown, Jan 31, 2020
Politics After Beating Back a Populist Surge, Italy’s Leaders Will Again Allow Foreigners to Apply for Museum Directorships Thirteen posts are now open to those wishing to apply from abroad. By Kate Brown, Jan 30, 2020
Art World The Getty Bought an ‘Exceedingly Rare’ Gauguin Sculpture for a Reported $5 Million. There’s Just One Problem: It’s Fake The sculpture was thought to be the largest and most unusual of Paul Gauguin's sculptures, of which he made very few. By Kate Brown, Jan 28, 2020
Art World Watch Mick Jagger Play an Evil Art Dealer in the Trailer for His Upcoming Art-World Thriller ‘The Burnt Orange Heresy’ Donald Sutherland and Claes Bang co-star as a reclusive artist and critic in the neo-noir thriller. By Kate Brown, Jan 27, 2020
On View On the 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz, 75 Moving Portraits of Holocaust Survivors Are Going on View in Germany Photographer Martin Schoeller has captured the portraits of survivors of the World War II atrocities. By Kate Brown, Jan 27, 2020
Politics Documenta Curator Adam Szymczyk Distances the Organization From Patron Sindika Dokolo, the Target of an International Fraud Investigation Sindika Dokolo's foundation pumped €340,000 into Documenta's coffers for its 2017 edition. By Kate Brown, Jan 24, 2020
Art World Two Wealthy Women Staged a Photo Shoot With Their Mercedes-Benz in the Forbidden City, Sparking Outrage in China Over Wealth Inequality The director of Beijing's Palace Museum has apologized and two senior managers have been suspended amid a social-media firestorm. By Kate Brown, Jan 21, 2020
Art World Five Old Master Paintings Stolen 40 Years Ago in a Notorious Art Heist Have Been Recovered Thanks to a German Mayor’s Ingenious Plan The paintings are returning to a Baroque palace having been smuggled into West Germany in the 1980s. By Kate Brown, Jan 20, 2020
On View A Revealing New Exhibition in Germany Delves Into the Archive of a Top Art Dealer From the 1960s to Show How Female Artists Were Kept Out The show brights together early letters, notes, and artworks that document the careers of first-generation conceptual women artists. By Kate Brown, Jan 17, 2020
Market Frieze Hires Media-Industry Veteran Simon Fox, Its First CEO, to Expand the Company’s Publishing and Fair Empire Fox will fill in duties previously overseen by Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover. By Kate Brown, Jan 15, 2020
Shows & Exhibitions An Eccentric Italian Collector Commissioned Famous Artists to Transform Pianos Into Weird and Wonderful Sculptures—See Them Here "Prepared pianos" by Dorothy Iannone, Carolee Schneemann, and Nam June Paik will be activated during an exhibition in Berlin. By Kate Brown, Jan 15, 2020
Art World Germany Returns Three Paintings Once Owned by the Notorious Art Dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt to a Jewish Collector’s Heirs The government also returned six pieces of silver from a Munich museum. By Kate Brown, Jan 14, 2020
Market ‘Exceptional’ Nazi-Looted Impressionist Masterworks Reclaimed From the Musée d’Orsay Could Fetch $25 Million at Auction The heirs of a French collector reclaimed paintings by Camille Pissarro and Paul Signac from France, plus a work in the Gurlitt hoard from Germany. By Kate Brown, Jan 13, 2020
People How Rising Art Star Alvaro Barrington Charmed London’s Top Galleries Into Breaking Their Own Rules for the Chance to Work With Him The prolific artist is crafting his career with so much charisma, all six of his galleries have fallen into step. By Kate Brown, Jan 13, 2020
Art World A German Museum Director Tracked Down 6 Missing Works by Anselm Kiefer in a Chinese Warehouse. But China Is Blocking Their Return The world-famous artist tried to stop the unofficial retrospective that has become a nightmare for the director of the Ludwig Museum in Koblenz. By Kate Brown, Jan 9, 2020
