Auctions A Recently Discovered Portrait by Nigerian Star Ben Enwonwu Sold for Nearly Eight Times Its Estimate at Sotheby’s London Some see the sale as a bellwether for the market for modern and contemporary art from Africa. By Kate Brown, Oct 16, 2019
People The Van Gogh Museum Has Tapped the Longtime Director of the Mauritshuis to Lead the Venerated Amsterdam Institution The American academic joins the museum after 12 years at the Mauritshuis. By Kate Brown, Oct 16, 2019
Market As Protests Continue to Rock the City, a Hong Kong Art Fair Show Has Cancelled Its Spring 2020 Edition Attendance at the Asia Contemporary Art Show fell by 40 percent at the fair's most recent show. By Kate Brown, Oct 15, 2019
On View Tiepolo, the ‘Best Painter in Venice,’ Goes on View in Germany in a Blockbuster Show The major exhibition spans all corners of his creative oeuvre, right down to some peculiar caricature doodles. By Kate Brown, Oct 15, 2019
Exhibitions On Top of a Leonardo Headache, the Prado Turned Down the Louvre’s Request to Borrow Three El Grecos The Paris museum opens a major survey of the Old Master, which is due to travel to Chicago in the spring. By Kate Brown, Oct 10, 2019
Art World Virtuous Online Commenters Have Discovered an Authentic Work by Anthony van Dyck, Britain’s First Art Star, Hiding in Plain Sight The charity-run internet forum is proud to evidence just how productive online chatting can be. By Kate Brown, Oct 9, 2019
Art World Paris’s Musée Rodin Signs a Major Partnership Deal With China to Open an Outpost in Its Technology Capital The French museum is selling 50 bronze editions of Rodin's work and loaning another 50 as part of the partnership. By Kate Brown, Oct 8, 2019
People ‘The Colonial Effect on Us Is Huge’: Why Congolese Collector Sindika Dokolo Sees Restitution as a Way to Remake African Identity The Congolese mega-collector is on a quest to help return illegally looted art to Africa. By Kate Brown, Oct 8, 2019
Art Fairs As the Unrest in Hong Kong Intensifies, Dealers Grapple With the Pros and Cons of Attending Art Basel’s Fair in the City Two galleries have withdrawn, while others remain cautiously committed. By Julia Halperin & Naomi Rea & Kate Brown, Oct 7, 2019
Art Fairs At London’s 1–54 Fair, Curator Azu Nwagbogu Lays Out the Pitfalls of the New Wave of Interest in African Contemporary Art The former Zeitz Mocaa curator and founder of LagosPhoto offers his advice on unlearning old ways of seeing. By Kate Brown, Oct 4, 2019
Galleries Studiously Avoiding Hong Kong, the Berlin-Based König Galerie Is Opening a Tokyo Location The gallery plans to present shows by artists born or based in Germany. By Kate Brown, Oct 3, 2019
Art Fairs Tate Acquires Work by an Overlooked Textile Artist, a Video Inspired by Cancer Treatment, and Other Works From Frieze 2019 The UK institution expanded its remit to include Frieze Masters for the first time. By Kate Brown, Oct 2, 2019
People ‘It Will Not Be a Passing, Fashionable Moment’: Goodman Gallery’s Liza Essers on Why the Art World’s Axis Is Tipping Toward Africa As the South African gallery prepares to open in London this week, its owner explains how the new space plays into her global vision. By Kate Brown, Oct 1, 2019
On View From Paul Thek’s Accidental Etchings to Gabriel Kuri’s Cigarette Butts, Here Are 5 Must-See Shows in Brussels The city of adventurous gallery formats and discreet collectors doesn't do hype, but it does do quality. By Kate Brown, Sep 30, 2019
Art and Law More Than 200 Artworks by an Eminent Kazakhstani Art Collective Are Being Held Hostage by Unpaid Contractors After a Splashy International Exhibition The project "Focus Kazakhstan" was meant to elevate the country's art, but mismanagement has resulted in allegedly damaged work and lack of payment. By Kate Brown, Sep 24, 2019
