Art and Law Tate Modern’s Angry Neighbors Are Not Giving Up Their Fight Against Museum Visitors Peeping Into Their Apartments A group of residents of the neighboring apartment block is appealing a lawsuit against the museum. By Naomi Rea, 2 hours ago
Art World Less Than a Month After the Louvre Hired a Nazi Loot Expert to Investigate Its Collection, She Found 10 Ill-Gotten Works Hiding in Plain Sight Emmanuelle Polack has identified the works as belonging to the collection of a Jewish lawyer. By Naomi Rea, 1 day ago
Exhibitions There Will Never Be Another Show of Northern Renaissance Master Jan van Eyck Like the One About to Open in Belgium The Flemish Old Master's paintings will be reunited alongside works by his 15th-century contemporaries in the ambitious exhibition. By Naomi Rea, 2 days ago
Art and Law In a Twist, Two Serial Art Thieves Confess to Having Hidden Klimt’s ‘Portrait of a Lady’ Inside a Wall So That It Might Be Recovered "We have given a gift to the city by returning the canvas,” the men, who are charged in a separate burglary spree, wrote. By Naomi Rea, 2 days ago
Art World Experts Confirm the Authenticity of the Stolen Klimt Painting Found Hidden in a Museum’s Wall The Italian museum confirms that it is Klimt's only known double portrait as the artist painted over an earlier portrait of a woman. By Naomi Rea, Jan 20, 2020
Art World Experts Conclude That This Odd Self-Portrait of Vincent van Gogh Giving the Side Eye Really Is by the Dutch Master The 1889 work was completed when the artist was in the throes of psychosis. By Naomi Rea, Jan 20, 2020
Art Fairs This Entrepreneurial Art-Fair Veteran Is Sick of Art Fairs. So She’s Launching an Alternative Inside a Lavish London Mansion Nazy Vassegh, former head of Masterpiece, is launching Eye of the Collector. By Naomi Rea, Jan 20, 2020
Art World A Group of Principled French Art Dealers Teamed Up to Buy 27 Looted African Artifacts at Auction—So They Could Return Them to Benin The private initiative to support a small museum in West Africa contrasts with the slow progress made by the French government and its big museums. By Naomi Rea, Jan 17, 2020
Exhibitions Hidden Away for 50 Years, an Astonishing Collection of Classical Art Owned by a Secretive Italian Family Will Finally Go on a World Tour It could be the most important exhibition of 2020. By Naomi Rea, Jan 15, 2020
Art World A K-Pop Boy Band Is Launching a Wildly Ambitious Public Art Project in Five Cities Across the World Of course, Hans Ulrich Obrist is also involved. By Naomi Rea, Jan 14, 2020
Art World Security Experts Say That Jewels Stolen From Dresden’s Green Vault in an Audacious Heist Have Now Popped Up on the Dark Web German authorities reject the claims made by an Israeli security company. By Naomi Rea, Jan 13, 2020
Politics Angry Slovenian Villagers Set Fire to a Creepy Wooden Statue of Donald Trump. (The Artist Insists It’s Really a ‘Statue of Liberty’) The political work of art had recently been given asylum by the mayor of the Slovenian village who has vowed not to be defeated by the vandals. By Naomi Rea, Jan 10, 2020
Market UK Dealers Are Scrambling to Make Sense of ‘Burdensome’ New Anti-Money Laundering Regulations Quietly Passed Over the Holidays The new rules will disrupt the culture of confidentiality in the art market. By Naomi Rea, Jan 10, 2020
Politics Germany Opens an Official ‘Help Desk’ for Those Seeking to Reclaim Nazi-Looted Art, Simplifying a Long-Opaque Process The office in Berlin, led by an art historian, aims to guide people around the bureaucratic hurdles for claiming back their cultural assets. By Naomi Rea, Jan 9, 2020
Politics The Pentagon Has Rejected Trump’s Threat to Bomb Iran’s Heritage Sites. Here’s What May Have Been Saved Officials at the Pentagon acknowledge that striking Iran's cultural heritage would break "the laws of armed conflict." By Naomi Rea, Jan 7, 2020
