On View Liam Gillick and an Austrian Art Collective Transformed Vienna’s Kunsthalle Into a Nightmarish Film Set—See It Here A feature-length film will be released later this year. By Kate Brown, Aug 15, 2019
Art World Experts in Pompeii Have Discovered a Female Sorcerer’s Mysterious Arsenal of Charms—See Them Here The tiny amulets were used to bring fortune and fertility, and protect against bad luck. By Kate Brown, Aug 13, 2019
Market Experts Thought the Holy Grail of Print Portfolios Was Lost to History. But One Family Kept it Intact—and Now It’s Heading to Auction The rediscovered album of artworks includes Edvard Munch's first color print. By Kate Brown, Aug 12, 2019
Analysis Berlin’s Gallery Scene Is Eroding. Its Tech Scene Is Exploding. Will These Young Startup Elites Ever Start Buying Art? We take a deep dive at the German capital's burgeoning industry. By Kate Brown, Aug 12, 2019
Art World After Damaging Collisions (and Too Many Near Misses), Venice Decides to Ban Giant Cruise Ships Once and For All The Italian government has decided to begin diverting the giant ships away from Venice's central waterway. By Kate Brown, Aug 8, 2019
Art World Belgium’s Africa Museum Comes Under Fire for a ‘Clichéd’ Africa-Themed Music Festival The museum has apologized for the event at which one person showed up in blackface and others wore grass skirts. By Kate Brown, Aug 8, 2019
Art World ‘My Professional Return to Belgrade Is a Big Deal for Me’: Marina Abramović Writes a Deeply Personal Letter to Serbia Ahead of Her Retrospective The artist says she hasn't been this excited about an exhibition since her solo show at MoMA, "The Artist Is Present." By Kate Brown, Aug 6, 2019
Law & Politics Three Munich Museums Restitute 9 Nazi-Looted Artworks to the Heirs of Jewish Collectors The artworks ended up in Munich's museums before new research revealed their true history. By Kate Brown, Aug 5, 2019
Art World Looking for Instagram Inspiration? Take a Tip From These Attention-Grabbing Self-Portraits by Rembrandt, Old Master of the Selfie From giggles to grimaces, Rembrandt documented his face like no other artist before him. By Kate Brown, Aug 2, 2019
Politics ‘I’m Anxious for It to Go to the Supreme Court’: Why Nan Goldin Thinks the Latest Lawsuit Against the Sacklers Could Be the Biggest Yet The lawsuit alleges that Purdue Pharma's owners hid billions of dollars to avoid paying opioid victims' claims. By Kate Brown, Aug 1, 2019
Art World Cologne Says It Wants a Gerhard Richter Museum. Too Bad Gerhard Richter Says He Doesn’t Need One Cologne is desperate to build a museum dedicated to the artist and it is thinking big it is worried that the artist will be swayed by another German city. By Kate Brown, Aug 1, 2019
People ‘We Have More Agency Than We Realize’: Serpentine Curator Lucia Pietroiusti on How the Art World Can Tackle Climate Change The curator of the Golden Lion-winning Lithuanian Pavilion in Venice is wedding art and environmentalism in new ways. By Kate Brown, Jul 16, 2019
Galleries David Zwirner Will Open a Gallery in Paris, Seeking a Stable Foothold in the European Art Market Amid Brexit The mega-dealer's newest location will open alongside FIAC art fair this fall. By Kate Brown, Jul 11, 2019
On View Critics Call This New Berlin Museum the ‘Most Expensive Cloakroom in the World.’ With Its Grand Opening, the Public Now Gets to Decide Architect David Chipperfield's new building serves as a physical main entrance to neighboring museums in Berlin. By Kate Brown, Jul 10, 2019
On View A London Gallery Is Giving the Spotlight Exclusively to Artists Named ‘Smith,’ and It’s the Show You Didn’t Know You Needed Everyone loves the Smiths, right? By Kate Brown, Jul 9, 2019