Law & Politics Amid a Nationwide Push for Museum Workers’ Rights, the Staff of LA MOCA Is Unionizing The museum's senior management says it does "not believe that this union is in the best interest of our employees or the museum." By Naomi Rea, Nov 25, 2019
Art World Solange Will Close the Venice Biennale With a Spiritual Performance in the Flood-Devastated City Set for November 24, the work develops themes from her recent Getty performance, 'Bridge-s.' By Naomi Rea, Nov 22, 2019
Politics A Key Impeachment Witness, Gordon Sondland Is Also a ‘Lover of Art.’ Here’s What We Know About His Multimillion-Dollar Art Collection The diplomat and wealthy hotelier owns a collection valued at up to $25 million. By Naomi Rea, Nov 22, 2019
Market ‘The Elephant in the Room Is the Mega-Galleries’: Dealer Stefania Bortolami on How the Art Business Changed in 2019, and Where It’s Headed Artnet News sat down with Bortolami to to dissect all that happened in the art world this year, and why now is the age of the mega-galleries. By Naomi Rea, Nov 21, 2019
Art & Exhibitions Anti-Oil Activists Gatecrash the British Museum’s ‘Troy’ Exhibition With a Sticky Performance to Protest BP Sponsorship Special guests and the museum's trustees arrived at the VIP opening to find performers dressed as oil-stained Greek gods and goddesses. By Naomi Rea, Nov 20, 2019
Art World After Two Years, the Monnaie de Paris Is Shutting Down Its Contemporary Art Program Because It Wasn’t Making Enough Monnaie Its current Kiki Smith retrospective will be the space’s final contemporary outing. By Naomi Rea, Nov 19, 2019
Politics France Returns to Senegal a 19th-Century Saber That It Looted During the Colonial Period It is the latest effort in France to rectify historical wrongs. By Naomi Rea, Nov 18, 2019
Art World An Artist Has Won a Three-Year Legal Battle to Force a German Museum to Publicly Release Its 3-D Scan of a Bust of Nefertiti Cosmo Wenman hopes to make museums' 3D scans available to the public. By Naomi Rea, Nov 17, 2019
People ‘It Was a Sort of Therapy for Me’: Joana Choumali, the First African to Win Europe’s Top Photography Award, on Her Emotive Work Choumali has won the $100,000 Prix Pictet. By Naomi Rea, Nov 14, 2019
Art World Venice’s Cultural Institutions Shutter En Masse as Historic Floods Send the Floating City Into a ‘State of Calamity’ Water and fire damage have shuttered many of the city's historic museums. By Naomi Rea, Nov 13, 2019
Market The Subject of a David Hockney Portrait That Could Fetch $45 Million at Christie’s This Week Finds His Unwanted Fame ‘Pretty Tedious’ Hockney’s former partner and model, Peter Schlesinger, opens up to Artnet News about the work. By Naomi Rea, Nov 12, 2019
Art World As Art Institutions Race to Expand in China, Beijing’s UCCA Museum Announces Plans to Build a Shanghai Satellite The Chinese city is in the midst of a museum boom. By Naomi Rea & Taylor Dafoe, Nov 7, 2019
Galleries Former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin Is Opening an Art Gallery With His Son in Hong Kong Arthur and Dominique de Villepin plan to open Villepin Gallery in March. By Naomi Rea, Nov 7, 2019
Art World The Kunstmuseum Bern Is Selling a Stormy Manet Seascape Previously Owned by the Infamous Collector Cornelius Gurlitt for $4 Million The work is heading to the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo. By Naomi Rea, Nov 7, 2019
Art World A New Museum Dedicated to Picasso and Giacometti Is Launching in Beijing Next Year France is taking full advantage of China’s growing demand for Modern art. By Naomi Rea, Nov 6, 2019