Art and Law Mary Boone’s Business Partner Is Suing the Jailed Dealer Over $15 Million in Art That She Allegedly Took From the Gallery for Herself The lawsuit alleges that Boone sold gallery-owned artworks and pocketed the money. By Sarah Cascone, 12 hours ago
Politics An Artist-Led Coalition in New York City Has Won a Big Legal Victory Against a Real Estate Developer’s Planned Skyscrapers A New York state judge has nullified the city’s approval for the project. By Zachary Small, 13 hours ago
Art World Art Industry News: A Longtime LACMA Donor Severs Ties With the Museum Over Fears Its Gifts May Be Buried in Storage + Other Stories Plus, Blain Southern is going into bankruptcy in the UK and the Smithsonian just released a trove of images to the public. By Artnet News, 20 hours ago
Art World The Met’s Newly Reopened British Galleries Tell a Much More Honest Story About Wealth, Class, and Empire—and Their Dark Side A renovation costing roughly $22 million has transformed the museum's journey through the British decorative arts. By Tess Thackara, 21 hours ago
Art World The Louvre’s Leonardo da Vinci Extravaganza Brought in Nearly 1.1 Million Visitors, Shattering Previous Attendance Records The remarkable figure doubled the previous record of 540,000 visitors to an exhibition of works by Eugène Delacroix in 2018. By Katie White, 1 day ago
Art World The Auschwitz Museum Is Slamming Amazon’s New Show About Nazi Hunters for Taking Creative Liberties With the Holocaust The show's creator says he didn't want to recreate "specific, real acts of trauma." By Taylor Dafoe, 2 days ago
Art World In an Extraordinary Discovery, Archaeologists May Have Just Located the Tomb of Romulus, the Legendary Founder of Rome The tomb was found in the heart of the Roman Forum, a site that "never ceases to yield amazing fresh treasures." By Sarah Cascone, 2 days ago
Art World Art Industry News: Steve Wynn Just Dropped More Than $100 Million on Two Picassos From the Marron Collection + Other Stories Plus, critics love a show of Mexican muralism at the Whitney and Dior Men's creative director is curating an auction for Sotheby's. By Artnet News, 2 days ago
Art World Gag Orders and NDAs Are More Common at UK Arts Organizations Than You Think, According to a Troubling New Survey There are some suggestions, though, that prominent cases of the #MeToo era are changing the practice. By Javier Pes, 2 days ago
Events and Parties Editors’ Picks: 21 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week From Roe Ethridge's Gagosian debut to Sarah Slappey's surreal nudes, here's the best of what the city has to offer this week. By Sarah Cascone, 2 days ago
People How Two Laid-Back Dealers Turned $25,000, a Bunch of Unknown Artists, and Sheer Bravado Into the Global Powerhouse Blum & Poe “It was a hard run, we were $#@%ing broke forever," says Tim Blum. Here's how they pulled it off. By Nate Freeman, 2 days ago
Politics Nan Goldin, Kara Walker, and the DIS Art Collective Are Among the Hundreds of Cultural Figures Endorsing Bernie Sanders for US President More than 665 artists have signed a new open letter in support of Sanders. By Taylor Dafoe, 3 days ago
People ‘We’re Partners, But We’re Also Best Friends’: Painter Tschabalala Self and Curator Mike Mosby on the Rewards of Artistic Love In Artnet News's Portraits of Love series, young creative couples offer insights into their partnerships. By Noor Brara, 3 days ago
Politics Rebekah Mercer, Billionaire Donor to Anti-Science Causes, Is Off the American Museum of Natural History’s Board After Years of Protest There had been widespread calls from museum curators and scientists for Mercer to step down. By Sarah Cascone, 3 days ago
Art World Art Industry News: The World’s Oldest Cave Art Is Under Threat From Miners in Indonesia + Other Stories Plus, Texas is censoring an artist's work and Meghan and Harry could be dragging Hauser & Wirth into the Mexit saga. By Artnet News, Feb 24, 2020
