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
Art World ‘Appropriation Art’ or ‘Revenge Porn’? The Subject of a Richard Prince Instagram Portrait Slams the Artist’s Use of Her Image Zoë Ligon says she feels "violated" by the use of her image without her consent. By Naomi Rea, Nov 5, 2019
Art and Law In a Brazen Treasure Heist in France, Thieves Rammed a Medieval Cathedral With a Tree Trunk and Made Off With Precious Artifacts The perpetrators targeted the UNESCO World Heritage Site early on Monday morning. By Naomi Rea, Nov 4, 2019
People Banksy’s Former Dealer Is Releasing a Book of Never-Before-Seen Photos of the Street Artist in Action. See Highlights Here The first 50 buyers of the book are entered for the chance to win the rights to a rare Banksy work. By Naomi Rea, Nov 4, 2019
Exhibitions Treasures From King Tut’s Tomb Are Heading to London Before Returning to Egypt Forever. See Highlights Here Nearly half of the items have never left Egypt before. By Naomi Rea, Oct 31, 2019
Art World Looking for a Way to Make Your Halloween Artistic? This Spooky Deck of Tarot Cards by Salvador Dalí Should Do the Trick Taschen has republished a deck of cards designed by the great Surrealist for a James Bond movie. By Naomi Rea, Oct 31, 2019
Market A Lost Cimabue Masterpiece Found Hanging in an Elderly French Woman’s Kitchen Sold for a Stunning $26.8 Million The Medieval painting was spotted above the stove where it had been hanging for years. By Naomi Rea, Oct 28, 2019
On View The Missing Salvator Mundi Isn’t in the Louvre’s Leonardo da Vinci Blockbuster. But a Second Version You’ve Probably Never Heard of Is Curators remain hopeful the missing painting will turn up. By Naomi Rea, Oct 24, 2019
