Art Fairs As Jetsetters Prepare to Descend on the Eroding Shores of Miami, Art Basel Awkwardly Tries to Address Climate Change How can an industry that hinges on international travel confront climate change? By Eileen Kinsella & Naomi Rea, Dec 2, 2019
Art World Berlin’s Stasi Museum Is Targeted by Thieves Just Days After Europe’s Biggest Jewel Heist in Dresden Burglars took historic artifacts, medals, and gold jewelry from the museum housed in the former headquarters of the feared ministry of state security. By Naomi Rea, Dec 2, 2019
Art World Ever Wonder How Experts Find Long-Lost Masterpieces? We Asked Top Sleuths in the Trade to Share Their Secrets Be prepared to spend a lot of time digging for answers. By Naomi Rea, Dec 2, 2019
Art World Have You Seen a Benin Bronze in an Art Museum? The Guardian Launches a Campaign to Locate and Return African Art The newspaper is looking for information on Benin bronzes held in small institutions around the UK. By Naomi Rea, Nov 29, 2019
Art Fairs Art Basel Cancels Its Experimental $15,000-a-Ticket Abu Dhabi Conference Just Two Months After It Was Announced The Swiss art fair blames a short lead time, not the hefty ticket price. By Naomi Rea, Nov 27, 2019
Exhibitions Step Inside King Tut’s Tomb With This New Virtual-Reality Experience—Possibly the Best Part of London’s Tutankhamun Blockbuster The VR experience will tour the world with the exhibition. By Naomi Rea, Nov 27, 2019
On View How a Landmark Show by LGBTQ Artists in Thailand Is Sowing the Seeds of Tolerance Across the Region The exhibition includes works by Danh Vō, Ren Hang, and Dinh Q. Lê, among others. By Naomi Rea, Nov 26, 2019
Art and Law Police Plan to Seize a Rotterdam Museum’s 16th-Century Altarpiece Fragments After a Church Claimed They Were Stolen The sculptures disappeared from a Belgian church in 1914. Now it wants them back. By Naomi Rea, Nov 26, 2019
Art and Law 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
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
