Law & Politics Ireland Has Been Giving Creative Workers $1,400 a Month in an Economic Experiment That Will Soon Shape National Policy 2,000 Irish artists are receiving weekly checks of $350 as part of the three-year program. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 30, 2023
Law & Politics The Italian Museum That Owns Leonardo’s ‘Vitruvian Man’ Has Successfully Sued to Stop Production of a 1,000-Piece Puzzle Based on the Work An Italian court has blocked the puzzle company from producing and selling the product. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 30, 2023
Auctions A Home Appraiser Spotted a 500-Year-Old Brueghel Painting in a Family’s T.V. Room. They Just Sold It for $845,000 For generations, the family that owned the artwork believed it was a cheap knockoff. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 29, 2023
Art History A Zurich Museum Found Out It May Have Acquired a Fake Titian. So Why Did It Buy Another Painting That Looks Just Like It? Now the museum may have two Titians on its hands—or it may have none at all.  By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 28, 2023
Art & Tech Did Monet Owe His Hazy, Impressionistic Style to the Early Effects of Climate Change? A New Scientific Study Suggests So The artist painted at the height of the Industrial Revolution. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 28, 2023
Crime Did Bulgarian Police Just Discover a Previously Unknown Jackson Pollock Painting? Here’s What the Evidence Suggests On the back of the painting is a dedication to actress Lauren Bacall, dated to her 25th birthday. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 24, 2023
Law & Politics The World’s Most Valuable Coin, Previously Sold With Falsified Provenance, Has Finally Been Returned to Greece A dealer was arrested this year for selling the ancient coin with falsified provenance documentation in 2020. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 24, 2023
NFTs Sculptor Maya Lin Will Release Her First NFT Project, a Generative Art Series Based on the Root Systems of Trees, This Spring The series, alongside projects by Trevor Paglen and John Gerrard, will be released by Pace Verso and Art Blocks. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 23, 2023
Museums & Institutions The New Museum Has Named Two Star Curators the Co-Organizers of Its Sixth Triennial, Set for 2026 The show will be the first Triennial to take place after the completion of the museum’s major expansion project. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 21, 2023
Museums & Institutions The Centre Pompidou Is Lending Its Brand to a New Museum in Seoul, Expanding Its Portfolio of International Outposts The Paris-based institution has agreed to license its name and works from its collection for a four-year period. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 20, 2023
Auctions More Than 200 Artworks From the Collection of Gerald Fineberg Could Net $270 Million When They Hit the Block at Christie’s in May The late real estate magnate’s collection includes paintings by Gerhard Richter, Christopher Wool, and Alice Neel. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 20, 2023
Law & Politics A Series of Norman Rockwell Illustrations That Once Hung in the White House Is at the Center of a Legal Battle Between Family Members Rockwell gifted the artworks to FDR’s press secretary in 1943. But who officially owned them after that is the subject of debate. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 17, 2023
Art World A Drab Landscape on ‘Antiques Roadshow’ Turns Out to be an Early David Hockney Worth up to $36,000 The scene was likely completed by the iconic British painter when he was a student in the late 1950s, the show’s art expert explained. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 16, 2023
Art & Exhibitions The Republic of Benin Is Getting Its First-Ever National Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale The West African country’s pavilion will be organized by the curator and critic Azu Nwagbogu. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 15, 2023
On View Desert X Arrives in Coachella Valley, Bringing Art That Reflects on Ecology. See Images of the Show Here Works by Tschabalala Self, Torkwase Dyson, and Tyre Nichols are included in the fourth iteration of the biennial exhibition. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 14, 2023