Art World Artist Sonia Boyce Will Be the First Black Woman to Represent the UK at the Venice Biennale The artist came to prominence in the 1980s as a key figure in the Black-British art scene. By Naomi Rea, Feb 12, 2020
Art World Activists Brought a Trojan Horse to the British Museum and Camped Out in the Galleries Overnight to Protest BP’s Sponsorship An estimated 1,500 people turned out to protest the museum's ties to fossil fuels. By Naomi Rea, Feb 10, 2020
Exhibitions Late Night Leonardo: The Louvre Announces Free All-Nighters for the Final Days of Its Blockbuster Show The Paris museum is offering 30,000 lucky visitors a unique chance to experience Leonardo's work after dark. By Naomi Rea, Feb 10, 2020
Market Meet Collector Robert Tibbles, Who Snapped Up a $1,000 Damien Hirst Work in 1989 That Could Soon Sell for $2.3 Million Tibbles is selling his collection of early YBA works at Phillips—and the return on his initial investment could be huge. By Naomi Rea, Feb 10, 2020
Art World After Traces of Toxic Lead Are Removed, Notre Dame Could Partially Reopen to the Public as Early as Next Month Pending health and safety checks, the cathedral’s forecourt could soon reopen. By Naomi Rea, Feb 6, 2020
On View ‘I Am a Photographer, Not an Artist’: Legendary War Photographer Don McCullin on Why the Distinction Matters McCullin spoke to us about his landscape photographs, on view at Hauser & Wirth Somerset. By Naomi Rea, Feb 4, 2020
Art World A Leading Old Masters Scholar Is Accusing London’s National Gallery of Unwittingly Inflating the Price of the ‘Salvator Mundi’ The claim ignited a flurry of letters and accusations among experts in the London Review of Books. By Naomi Rea, Jan 30, 2020
Market Boris Johnson’s Brexit Delivery Has Calmed Financial Markets in the UK. But the Art World Is Still on Edge The UK officially leaves Europe on January 31, but the full implications of Brexit remain to be seen. By Javier Pes & Naomi Rea, Jan 30, 2020
Art World Environmental Artist Tomás Saraceno Successfully Flies a Solar-Powered Hot Air Balloon Over Argentina, Breaking Six World Records The event is part of the South Korean band BTS’s global public art project. By Naomi Rea, Jan 29, 2020
Politics Chinese Authorities Have Locked Down the Great Wall of China and Beijing’s Forbidden City to Limit the Spread of Coronavirus The deadly virus has claimed the lives of 81 people. By Naomi Rea, Jan 27, 2020
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, Jan 23, 2020
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, Jan 22, 2020
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, Jan 21, 2020
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, Jan 21, 2020
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
