Politics ‘We Have to Continue to Campaign’: Artists and Dealers React to the Unsettling Results of the European Union’s Elections Olafur Eliasson is encouraged by the rise of the Green Party, Wolfgang Tillmans hopes the high turnout shows people care about the European project but many fear a no-deal Brexit is more likely. By Kate Brown, May 28, 2019
Politics ‘The Louvre Is Suffocating’: Staff at Paris’s Top Museum Go on Strike as Visitor Numbers Surge While attendance at the Louvre has exploded, the number of guards and visitor services staff has shrunk by almost 20 percent, the union says. By Kate Brown, May 28, 2019
Market Signaling Growing Market Ambitions, Sotheby’s Is Moving Its Australian Aboriginal Art Sale to New York This Fall The sale had for many years been in London. By Kate Brown, May 24, 2019
Politics ‘There Is So Much at Stake’: As EU Elections Loom, Artist Wolfgang Tillmans Has a Catchy New Campaign to Boost Voter Turnout The artist has created a campaign that spans 24 European languages. By Kate Brown, May 22, 2019
Politics An American Couple Returned a Looted Painting to Poland. In the Process, They Became Unlikely Figures in the Country’s Fight for Gay Rights The couple used the media attention to advocate for the LGBTQ+ community in Poland. By Kate Brown, May 13, 2019
Politics ‘Artists Can Be Guides in This Troubled Epoch’: Thaddaeus Ropac Backs a Pro-European Exhibition and Benefit Auction On the eve of crucial European elections, works by leading artists including Elmgreen & Dragset and Marina Abramovic will celebrate a united Europe. By Kate Brown, May 9, 2019
Art World A Long-Lost Cupid Is Revealed Under the Surface of One of Vermeer’s Greatest Paintings A remarkable restoration project confirms that the Dutch Old Master painted a young woman reading a love letter. By Kate Brown, May 8, 2019
On View Peer Inside the Prison of the Belgian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and See a Disturbing World of Mannequins and Old White People Belgian duo Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys are sending the Europe's idealized archetypes to jail. By Kate Brown, May 7, 2019
On View The Remains of a Shipwreck That Killed Hundreds of Migrants Will Be Shown at the Venice Biennale The damaged boat, shown by artist Christoph Büchel, will stand a powerful testament to the hundreds migrants who have died crossing the Mediterranean Sea. By Kate Brown, May 6, 2019
Art World Scholars Say They Have Discovered the Second Known Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, Made Just Before His Death The figure's beard—a rare fashion at the time—was a major tip-off. By Kate Brown, May 2, 2019
Politics More Than Half of the Artists Included in the Whitney Biennial Are Calling for Trustee Warren Kanders to Resign Forty-six of the artists included in the upcoming Whitney Biennial have signed on. By Kate Brown, Apr 30, 2019
People Artist Guido van der Werve Pushes His Body to the Limit. Then a Life-Changing Accident Almost Ended It All No task seems too difficult for triathlete, composer, and visual artist. By Kate Brown, Apr 25, 2019
Law & Politics A Stolen Painting by Signac, Worth More Than $1 Million, Is Recovered in Ukraine Officials are investigating whether the same gang suspected of stealing the painting by Paul Signac could been involved in further art crimes. By Kate Brown, Apr 24, 2019
Art World ‘It’s All About Life’: Ethiopia’s Newest Art Museum Doubles as an Experiment in Environmental Sustainability The Zoma Museum, an alternative arts and ecological institution in Addis Ababa, opened in March. By Kate Brown, Apr 21, 2019
People ‘You Don’t Have to Be Rich’: How One Young German Entrepreneur Is Busting the Myth of the ‘Typical’ Art Collector Christian Kaspar Schwarm wants to create a new paradigm for art collectors. By Kate Brown, Apr 17, 2019