Museums Mets Fans! Wear Your Hats Tomorrow and Get Free Admission to the Metropolitan Museum of Art Opening day of Major League Baseball is just around the corner. By Sarah Cascone, 1 day ago
Museums See Inside the Reopened Rembrandt House Museum, Which Now Displays Nearly a Third More of the Dutch Golden Age Master’s Stuff The new displays include artifacts dug up from a cesspit outside the building. By Sarah Cascone, 1 day ago
Politics A Florida School Focused on Classical Western Civilization Fired a Principal Over a Lesson Showing Michelangelo’s ‘David’ One parent called the iconic nude "pornographic." By Sarah Cascone, 1 day ago
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, 1 day ago
Law 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, 1 day ago
People Veteran Chinese Curator Pi Li on the Region’s Diversifying Market and Leading One of Hong Kong’s Up-and-Coming Cultural Venues Pi recently stepped into the role of head of art at Tai Kwun, after a decade at M+. By Rain Lu & Cathy Fan, 1 day ago
Art World A TikToker Freaked Out When He Found a Painting of His Living Room Displayed in a London Gallery. Here’s How It Ended Up There 'They have an oil painting of my living room... this can't be real.' By Min Chen, 1 day ago
Art World Art Industry News: Pharrell’s Online Auction House Is Offering Millions of Dollars Worth of Celebrity-Worn Bling + Other Stories Plus, Hokusai's 'Great Wave' sells for $2.8 million and the V&A celebrates seven decades of Chanel. By Artnet News, 2 days ago
People ‘The Material Is Alive’; Watch Artist Jes Fan Create Organic Sculptures That Explore the Intersection of Biology and Identity As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. By Caroline Goldstein, 2 days ago
Archaeology A New Archaeological Initiative Scouring Pompeii’s Suburbs Has Turned Up a Fascinating New Cache of Ancient Cookware The exciting finds are the result of a new arrangement to protect the site from looters. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, 2 days ago
Art World Wet Paint in the Wild: Art Production Fund Director Casey Fremont Shows Us What Goes Into Throwing a Gala—and Recovering From It The socialite and director of the Art Production Fund takes us through a week in her life. By Annie Armstrong, 2 days ago
Crime A New Report Has Linked More Than 1,000 Antiquities in the Met Museum’s Collection to Traffickers An investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists calls into question the origin of the museum's antiquities holdings. By Sarah Cascone, 2 days ago
Museums Workers at the Hispanic Society Museum Have Voted to Strike Following Stalled Negotiations for a Union Contract The museum's staff first filed their intention to unionize in May 2021. By Sarah Cascone, 2 days ago
Art World Art Industry News: Nepali Officials Claim Works on Display at the Art Institute of Chicago Were Stolen + Other Stories Plus, Ezra Chowaiki dishes on the art world's dirty secrets and Pace adds the estates of Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. By Artnet News, 3 days ago
Politics A Gigantic Public Artwork About Hong Kong’s Protests Was Quietly Censored in the Middle of Art Basel Week "A few years ago, this would have been an acceptable and legal expression," said the artist Patrick Amadon. By Vivienne Chow, 3 days ago
