People Renowned Wildlife Photographer and Bon Vivant Peter Beard Has Been Found Dead at Age 82, Three Weeks After Disappearing in Montauk The artist and notorious man-about-town was suffering from dementia when he disappeared. By Naomi Rea, Apr 20, 2020
Market Notorious Art Collector Charles Saatchi Is Selling Off Another 100 Works From His Gallery in a Low-Priced Christie’s Online Auction It is the fourth such auction from the Saatchi Gallery's holdings, and includes works estimated to sell for between £1,000 to £15,000. By Naomi Rea, Apr 20, 2020
People Damien Hirst Really Wants to Work With Plutonium and 11 Other Revelations From His Epic Instagram Interview With Himself In isolation, the artist answered 98 questions from the public on Instagram. By Naomi Rea, Apr 16, 2020
People ‘Everyone Is in a State of Panic Right Now’: 7 Mid-Career Artists on How They Are Facing the Enormous Challenges of the Coronavirus Pandemic Kader Attia, Kathe Burkhart, and others on how they have rearranged their lives in recent weeks. By Naomi Rea, Apr 15, 2020
Art Guides Can’t Wait to See Some Art Again? Here Are 5 Exciting Shows Still Planned for This Summer’s Prestigious Rencontres d’Arles Festival The event in the South of France is still slated to go ahead in June. By Naomi Rea, Apr 9, 2020
Art World A Team of Archeologists Has Been Arrested in Peru for Violating Lockdown to Excavate Pre-Columbian Tombs The team's leader says he was just trying to protect national heritage. By Naomi Rea, Apr 8, 2020
Art World Almost 98 Percent of ‘Eastern Mediterranean’ Antiquities Sold in Germany Are of Questionable Origin, a New Report Has Found A damning report spells out the problem. The solution might not be that straightforward. By Naomi Rea, Apr 6, 2020
Art World Archeologists Have Discovered a Trove of 300-Year-Old Silver Coins Hidden Beneath the Floor of a Renaissance Church in Slovakia The coins are of "immense" historical value. By Naomi Rea, Apr 3, 2020
Art World After a Van Gogh Heist Rattled Museums and Collectors, Experts Weigh in on How to Protect Your Art During a Lockdown From break-ins to cyber attacks, here's some practical advice to secure your collection. By Naomi Rea, Apr 1, 2020
Politics ‘There Will Be Enough for Everyone’: Berlin Distributes €500 Million to Artists and Freelancers Within Four Days of Launching Its Grant Program The Berlin government built an effective grant program for freelancers and small businesses in just a few days, but it wasn't without its issues. By Kate Brown & Naomi Rea, Mar 31, 2020
Art and Law Opportunistic Thieves Just Stole a Prized Van Gogh Landscape From a Locked-Down Dutch Museum Under Cover of Night The painting was on loan from another Netherlands museum. By Naomi Rea, Mar 30, 2020
Art World Scientists Have Turned a Pigment Invented by the Ancient Egyptians into a Vital New Tool for Biomedical Researchers Egyptian blue is one of the oldest pigments made by man. Now it is at the cutting edge of microscopic imaging. By Naomi Rea, Mar 30, 2020
Art World UK Citizens Found More Buried Treasure Than Ever Last Year, Including an 1,100-Year-Old Brooch and an Ancient Gold Ring Now might be a good time to take up backyard metal detecting. By Naomi Rea, Mar 30, 2020
Art World A German Cathedral Plans to Display Its Shrine to Saint Corona, Who It Says Is the Patron Saint of Epidemics But at least one scholar says the saint's connection to pandemics is not so clear. By Naomi Rea, Mar 27, 2020
People ‘All My Works Are Harbingers’: How Fourth Plinth Artist Heather Phillipson Found Dark Meaning in the Delay of Her Career’s Biggest Break The artist discusses her whipped cream sculpture that would have been unveiled in London this week. By Naomi Rea, Mar 27, 2020
