Art Fairs The Organizers of Berlin’s Most Important Art Fair Have Canceled All Future Editions Due to Financial Shortfalls Koelnmesse, Art Berlin's parent company, has pulled the plug after repeated setbacks. By Kate Brown, Dec 11, 2019
Art World Did This K-Pop Girl Group Rip Off a Classic Barbara Kruger Installation for Its New Video? It Certainly Looks Like It The new video from Mamamoo has quickly gone viral. By Kate Brown, Dec 9, 2019
Art World If Everyone Wins the Turner Prize, What Is Lost? Stunned Art Critics Took to Social Media to Debate the Divisive Gesture Some say its the role of artists to subvert events like the Turner Prize; others say its a sign that this prestigious award has reached its "sell-by date." By Kate Brown, Dec 4, 2019
Politics The Art Industry Is Grappling With How to Shrink Its Carbon Footprint. But Will Collectors Do Their Part? The carbon cost of shipping works for short-term events is art's dirty secret. By Kate Brown, Dec 4, 2019
Art Fairs ‘All Culture Is Going to Trash as Soon as the Food Runs Out’: Why Extinction Rebellion’s Climate Activists Are Targeting Art Basel Miami Beach Activist William Skeaping on why the climate-justice movement has set its sights on the art world. By Kate Brown, Dec 3, 2019
Auctions Auction Houses in North America Don’t Have to Give Artists a Cut of Sales. This Small Canadian Business Decided to Do It Anyway Peter Estey Fine Art is a tiny auction house with a big dream to level the playing field for artists circulating on the secondary market. By Kate Brown, Dec 2, 2019
Art World A Burnt-Out Car, a Bigger Gang, and No Insurance: New Details Emerge in the Frantic Hunt for Dresden’s Treasure Thieves Days after the robbery, the thieves are still at large but the museum has reopened. By Kate Brown, Nov 28, 2019
Art World Thieves Used an Axe and an Audi to Stage One of Europe’s Largest Museum Heists. Here Are 10 of the Priceless Treasures They Stole The police have also released video footage of the thieves raiding the historic collection. By Kate Brown, Nov 26, 2019
Art World Thieves Stole Up to a Billion Dollars Worth of Jewels From Dresden’s Famed Treasure Museum The Green Vault robbery could rival the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft as the most costly of all time. By Kate Brown, Nov 25, 2019
Law & Politics Metal Detectorists Discovered a $15.4 Million Viking Hoard. Instead of a Reward, They Are Now Going to Jail for Theft The trove, much of which is still missing, could rewrite early English history. By Kate Brown, Nov 22, 2019
Law & Politics $300 Million Worth of Work by Anselm Kiefer and Other German Artists Has Mysteriously Gone Missing in China Hundreds of artworks on loan from a single private collector have disappeared. By Kate Brown, Nov 20, 2019
Galleries Art Dealer Eva Presenhuber Is Expanding Her Footprint With a Second Location in Zürich The Swiss powerhouse dealer is opening the new space in a 19th-century building. By Kate Brown, Nov 20, 2019
Auctions Sotheby’s Is Preparing to Sell an Early Banksy Sculpture—But Now the Secretive Street Artist’s Nemesis Says That He’s the Rightful Owner A Banksy work that was stolen almost 15 years ago has resurfaced at Sotheby's with a $1.3 million high estimate. By Kate Brown, Nov 18, 2019
Politics Nan Goldin’s Opioid Activist Group Storms the Victoria & Albert Museum in London to Protest the Sackler Family’s Ties to the Museum The protest group is calling out the museum's director, Tristram Hunt, for his outspoken support of the Sacklers. By Kate Brown, Nov 16, 2019
Art Fairs Rejecting the Idea That Regional Fairs Should Expand, Art Düsseldorf Proves Staying Local Works Best (at Least in the Rhineland) The German fair is proof that there is life after MCH Group, thanks to the Rhineland's committed collectors and a dynamic art scene. By Kate Brown, Nov 15, 2019