Sustainability In a First for the Auction Industry, Christie’s Has Pledged to Reach Net-Zero Carbon Emissions by 2030 The auction house has also joined the Gallery Climate Coalition. By Kate Brown, Mar 3, 2021
Market After a Year of Being Forced to Sell Art Online, Gallerists Have Learned 5 Surprising Lessons—and It’s Clear There’s No Going Back We spoke with more than a dozen gallerists to learn their biggest takeaways, both positive and negative, from online viewing rooms. By Eileen Kinsella & Kate Brown, Mar 1, 2021
Art World TikTok Is Donating €5 Million to German Cultural Institutions That Pledge to Create Diverse and Inclusive Content on the Platform The social-media platform is offering 50 grants. By Kate Brown, Feb 24, 2021
Art & Exhibitions Why the Artistic Directors of the Gwangju Biennial Are Quarantining for Weeks (and Working Overtime) to Mount a Show Very Few People Will See Is this the biennial model of the future? By Kate Brown, Feb 22, 2021
Art World Conceptual Artist Maria Eichhorn, Whose Work Challenges Institutional Power Structures, Will Represent Germany at the 2022 Venice Biennale The artist is known for her erudite yet gently humorous approach. By Kate Brown, Feb 17, 2021
Art World Calls Mount for the Indianapolis Museum of Art’s Head to Step Down After a Job Posting Prioritized Maintaining Its ‘Core, White Audience’ The posting sought to improve diversity while maintaining the museum's "core, white art audience." By Kate Brown, Feb 15, 2021
Market As Dealers Look to Reinvent Their Businesses, German Gallerist Johann König Is Hiring an Auctions Expert to Steer His In-House Fair Model "It is not possible for a gallery to simply grow by only having their 20 or so artists anymore." By Kate Brown, Feb 12, 2021
People A Wholly Revamped Museum Will Open in Spain to House the Contemporary Art Collection of Dealer Helga de Alvear German art collector and dealer Helga de Alvear is gifting her entire collection to a Spanish region. By Kate Brown, Feb 11, 2021
Reviews Why Estonian Artist Flo Kasearu Enlisted Domestic Violence Survivors as Collaborators on Her New Show Estonia has staggeringly high rates of violence against women. By Kate Brown, Feb 10, 2021
Politics The German Government Has Agreed to Roll Out Another €1 Billion in Aid to Its Ailing Cultural Sector It brings the total of emergency aid for culture supplied by the government to €2 billion. By Kate Brown, Feb 4, 2021
Law & Politics The Ex-Wife of Disgraced Art Dealer Helge Achenbach Must Pay $1.2 Million to the Heirs of a Major Supermarket Chain Dorothee Achenbach has been found to have negligently sold unauthorized copies of artworks as originals. By Kate Brown, Feb 4, 2021
Crime Have You Seen This Art? Austrian Officials Are Searching for 21 Works That a Priest May Have Swiped From a Benedictine Abbey Authorities have released ads with images of the missing works. By Kate Brown, Feb 3, 2021
Art World ‘I Miss Gossiping!’: How the Invite-Only Social-Media App Clubhouse Is Making the Art World Fun Again (Even Without the Parties) We took a tour through the buzzy new audio-only platform Clubhouse, which has taken the art world by storm. By Kate Brown, Feb 1, 2021
Art World The Centre Pompidou in Paris Will Close for Four Years as It Undergoes a $243 Million Top-to-Bottom Overhaul The museum will be closed from 2023 to 2026. By Kate Brown, Jan 26, 2021
Art World As Lockdowns Remain in Force Across Europe, Museums Are Grappling With the Reality of Several More Weeks of Closed Doors Cultural institutions in the UK and on the continent are facing extreme uncertainty. By Kate Brown, Jan 25, 2021