Law Dealer Guy Wildenstein’s Most Recent Trial for Tax Evasion Has Begun in Paris, With Nearly $1 Billion—and the Family Dynasty—at Stake The case stems from the 2001 death of Guy's famously secretive father, Daniel Wildenstein. By Rachel Corbett, Sep 19, 2023
Market The Little-Known Story of How a Brash Duchess Convinced Wealthy Americans to Invest in Sculptures by Auguste Rodin The Clark Art Institute's summer show details how he became the most famous French sculptor in America. By Rachel Corbett, Jul 28, 2022
Artnet News Pro If You Had $3 Million, Would You Bid on a Wall Piece by Donald Judd or One by His Peer Lee Bontecou? In the latest installment in our series "This or That," art advisor Victoria Burns considers two very different artists from the heyday of 1960s New York. By Rachel Corbett, Nov 12, 2021
People ‘Failure Was Around the Corner’: Why Joan Jonas, at Age 85, is Still Looking For New Ways to Perform and Spaces to Inhabit With a MoMA retrospective on the horizon, the 85-year-old performance and video artist is finally claiming center stage. By Rachel Corbett, Nov 8, 2021
Artnet News Pro Would You Rather Buy This Hans Hofmann Painting at Art Basel or a Drawing by His Student, Lee Krasner? We Asked an Expert to Choose Nina Del Rio, the head of Sotheby's Advisory, weighs in. By Rachel Corbett, Sep 23, 2021
Artnet News Pro If You Had $300,000, Would You Buy a Winston Churchill Painting or a Banksy Screenprint? We Asked an Expert to Choose In the latest installment in our series "This or That," art advisor Nazy Vassegh considers two very different British artists. By Rachel Corbett, Jun 29, 2021
Artnet News Pro If You Had $3 Million, Would You Buy a Jonas Wood Painting or a Matisse Cutout? We Asked an Expert to Choose In the first installment of a new series, art advisor Allan Schwartzman considers two very different artworks. By Rachel Corbett, Jun 4, 2021
Art World After Trump’s Inauguration, Matthew Barney Installed a Giant Clock Counting Down His Days in Office. Now, It’s Finally Going Dark The clock has remained a mystery to many New Yorkers over the past four years. By Rachel Corbett, Jan 19, 2021
Law A Law Firm Has Cleared the Director of the Detroit Institute of Arts of Ethics Violations—But Critics Are Still Crying Foul A whistleblower agency called the findings the result of an "unserious investigation." By Rachel Corbett & Zachary Small, Oct 15, 2020
Law After Trustees Resign and Students Voice ‘Shame,’ the New York Academy of Art Issues a ‘Profound Apology’ to Epstein Accuser Maria Farmer After Naomi Watts and three other female trustees resigned, the academy's board is promising change. By Rachel Corbett, Aug 10, 2020
Law Whistleblowers at the Detroit Institute of Arts Expand Their Ethics Complaint Beyond the Museum’s Director to Include the Board Chair, Too The expanded complaint was filed with the institute's board and the Association of Art Museum Directors. By Rachel Corbett, Jul 24, 2020
Art World The Job Market for Young Academics Was Already Bleak—Then the Pandemic Hit. Here’s How Art-History Grad Students Are Coping With the Fallout "All of this is profoundly anxiety-producing," says one PhD candidate. By Rachel Corbett & Eileen Kinsella, Jul 23, 2020
Art World ‘There’s No One on Staff Who Can Lead’: Former Detroit Institute of Arts Employees Accuse Its Director of Mismanagement and Ethics Violations Current and former staff at the Detroit Institute of Arts are lodging complaints about director Salvador Salort-Pons. By Rachel Corbett, Jul 17, 2020
Law The New York Academy of Art Commissioned a Report That Purports to Discredit Claims That the School Enabled Jeffrey Epstein’s Abuses Despite Maria Farmer's allegations, the academy's board of trustees has asked its embattled chair, Eileen Guggenheim, to remain in her position. By Rachel Corbett, Jun 30, 2020
People How Years of Seclusion on a Mountaintop Trained Artist Terence Koh to Thrive in a World of Virtual Exhibitions and Lockdown Living What the former partyboy can teach us about thriving in isolation. By Rachel Corbett, Jun 15, 2020
