Politics Italy Has a Change of Heart, Is Now ‘Happy’ Lend Its Leonardo da Vinci Works to France for Anniversary Exhibition The resolution coincides with a broader thaw of diplomatic tensions between the two nations. By Kate Brown, Mar 4, 2019
People Following His Turbulent Departure From MOCA, Philippe Vergne Gets the Top Job at Portugal’s Serralves Museum The French director will lead the Serralves Museum while Helen Molseworth heads to Colorado for her next job. By Kate Brown & Javier Pes, Feb 27, 2019
On View See Works From Picasso’s Tender Early Years as They Take Center Stage at the Fondation Beyeler The artist's Blue and Rose periods are the focus of the exhibition in Basel, Switzerland. By Kate Brown, Feb 26, 2019
Art World For Its First Venice Biennale, Ghana’s All-Star Pavilion Will Introduce the Country as a Cultural Powerhouse on the Global Stage Ghana has assembled a heavy-hitting team, from David Adjaye to El Anatsui to Okwui Enwezor to Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. By Kate Brown, Feb 25, 2019
People ‘Community-Based’ Indonesian Collective ruangrupa Will Be the Artistic Director of documenta 15 documenta says it is consciously giving room to a non-European view of the art world. By Kate Brown, Feb 22, 2019
Art World Archaeologists May Have Finally Solved the Mystery of Where Stonehenge’s Rocks Came From A new study suggests that the rocks were dragged nearly 150 miles from where they were quarried. By Kate Brown, Feb 21, 2019
Market Forget the Old Masters, It’s All About the Old Monsters in the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils We can thank Steven Spielberg for the surging market, but scientists are not happy about it. By Kate Brown, Feb 21, 2019
People Karl Lagerfeld, the ‘Kaiser’ of Fashion Who Was Also a Talented Photographer, Has Died at 85 A living legend in the world of fashion, he was an accomplished artist who continuously brought the two worlds closer together. By Kate Brown, Feb 19, 2019
Galleries The Famed Paris Gallery Bernheim-Jeune, Which Held the First van Gogh Retrospective in 1901, Has Closed The gallery also held the first Futurist exhibition ever to come to Paris in 1912. By Kate Brown & Naomi Rea, Feb 14, 2019
On View The Transformation of the Historic Gropius Bau Embodies Everything That’s Wonderful About Berlin The museum's director Stephanie Rosenthal has big plans for the institution, including a new ticketing system and an atrium makeover. By Kate Brown, Feb 14, 2019
Art World Leonardo da Vinci’s Most Famous Works Will Now Appear on UK Postage Stamps—See Them Here The stamps commemorate the 500th anniversary of the artist's death. By Kate Brown, Feb 12, 2019
Art World An Amateur Treasure Hunter May Get a Huge Payout After Uncovering an Iron Age Chariot That Has Floored Experts The unprecedented find has been dated to AD 25-75. By Kate Brown, Feb 12, 2019
Politics Nan Goldin’s Activist Group Escalates Its War Against the Sacklers With an Open Call to Action at the Met The artist's direct-action group has made a public appeal for anyone to join them at a protest at the museum tomorrow, February 9. By Kate Brown, Feb 8, 2019
People Laure Prouvost, the Artist Representing France in the Venice Biennale, Wants You to Know She’s a Big-Time Liar Her largest exhibition yet opens today at the Museum of Contemporary Art. By Kate Brown, Feb 7, 2019
Politics The German Government Is Putting More Than $2 Million Behind Restitution Research Into Objects From Colonial Contexts The money will fund the research of colonial-era objects in German institutional collections. By Kate Brown, Feb 5, 2019
