Law & Politics Following an 11-Year Legal Battle, Cranach’s Nazi-Looted Adam and Eve Paintings Will Remain at a California Museum The final decision in favor of the Norton Simon Museum represents a landmark ending to a complicated lawsuit that lasted over a decade. By Kate Brown, Jul 31, 2018
Law & Politics A German Farmer Was Just Awarded Almost $1 Million for an Ancient Roman Bronze Found on His Property After the man learned that this was no ordinary find, he sued the government to get his fair share of the value. By Kate Brown, Jul 30, 2018
Art World Benin’s Looted Bronzes Are All Over the Western World. Here Are 7 Museums That Hold Over 2,000 of the Famed Sculptures As talks continue between the UK and Nigeria over Benin Bronzes, we survey the institutions that hold the majority of these African treasures. By Kate Brown, Jul 27, 2018
Art World Watch Marina Abramović Declare Solidarity With Pussy Riot in a New Video as Its Members Sit in a Russian Jail The artist has released a powerful statement of solidarity with Pussy Riot members' recent arrests via the art collective's Twitter account. By Kate Brown, Jul 27, 2018
Art & Exhibitions The Louvre’s Critically Acclaimed Delacroix Show Gets Record-Breaking Attendance The Parisian museum broke its attendance records with the show, which will travel to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in September. By Kate Brown, Jul 27, 2018
Art World See the Flemish Tourism Board’s Hilarious Response to Facebook’s Relentless Censorship of Peter Paul Rubens In the satirical video, a team of "Social Media Inspectors" block viewers from seeing paintings at the Rubens House in Antwerp. By Kate Brown, Jul 24, 2018
Analysis Part Capitalist, Part Socialist, Estonia May Have Cracked the Code for a Thriving Art Scene. Here’s How They Did It Estonia has built something of a cultural utopia, complete with government-subsidized art-fair participation and a national artists' union. By Kate Brown, Jul 23, 2018
On View This Artist Plastered the Facade of Austria’s Most Prestigious Art School With a 56-Foot Feminist Manifesto Katharina Cibulka has installed a cross-stitched text piece on the side of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. By Kate Brown, Jul 22, 2018
Galleries ‘It Becomes Impossible’: Why One Gallerist Says Berlin Is No Longer Hospitable to Contemporary Art Dealers As the Berlin gallery EXILE announces its move to Vienna, we speak with its founder about the challenges facing emerging galleries today. By Kate Brown, Jul 17, 2018
Art World Four Pussy Riot Members Are Arrested After Storming the Field During the World Cup Final The activist group's performance "Policeman Enters the Game" is a show of solidarity with Russia's political prisoners. By Kate Brown, Jul 15, 2018
Art World How a Female-Led Art Restoration Movement in Florence Is Reshaping the Canon The organization Advancing Women Artists is at the fore of finding forgotten female Masters like Plautilla Nelli. By Kate Brown, Jul 11, 2018
People ‘This Could Really Be Art for All’: Why Daniel Birnbaum Is Leaving His Job as a Museum Director for a Career in VR The esteemed director of the Moderna Museet is moving on to become the artistic director of the VR production company Acute Art. By Kate Brown, Jul 10, 2018
People Meet the Man Who Made a Living Selling North Korean Art to the West—Until UN Sanctions Got in the Way Pier Luigi Cecioni talks about the art world of Pyongyang, what the country's artists think about contemporary art, and why North Korean art matters. By Kate Brown, Jul 4, 2018
Art Fairs art berlin Is Ready for Takeoff—Here Are All the Galleries Heading to the Fair’s New Home in Tempelhof Airport Around 120 galleries will join for this year's edition, as they take over two hangars in the historic wartime airport. By Kate Brown, Jul 3, 2018
Art & Exhibitions The 6 Must-See Performances—and a Special Fragrance—at the Estonian Chapter of the Baltic Triennial Rising stars use song and dance, create a unique fragrance, and incorporate creeping insects to stage a memorable opening weekend in the capital city of Tallinn. By Kate Brown, Jul 2, 2018