Crime Spanish Police Have Seized Five Fake Goya and Velázquez Paintings Supposedly Worth a Collective $84 Million The works will go on view in an exhibition of seized forgeries curated in conjunction with Spanish police. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 14, 2023
Crime A Man Tried to Climb One of Canada’s Most Famous Public Artworks and Got Trapped Inside It Until Rescuers Found Him It took the fire department an hour and a half to free the man. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 12, 2023
Crime An Auctioneer Has Confessed to Playing a Major Role in Producing Fake Basquiats Displayed at the Orlando Museum of Art Los Angeles auctioneer Michael Barzman pled guilty to lying to the FBI about creating the works. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 12, 2023
Politics Lima’s Far-Right Mayor Shuttered a Memorial Museum in an Effort to ‘Control the Narrative’ of Peru’s History Critics fear the move is part of a broader political effort to whitewash history. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 10, 2023
Politics This Very Strange Painting Immortalizes Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s Freebie Luxury Vacations With a Republican Donor The billionaire also lent Thomas his private jet to attend the dedication of the statue of a nun at a New Jersey cemetery. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 7, 2023
Crime How a Drawing of Donald Trump at His Arraignment Became the First Courtroom Sketch to Cover ‘The New Yorker’ The sketch has also gone viral on Twitter. By Richard Whiddington, Apr 7, 2023
Politics Florida’s Department of Education Declares ‘David’ a Work of ‘Artistic Value’ After a Principal Was Fired Over a Lesson Showing the Nude Is the Florida Department of Education getting progressive? By Sarah Cascone, Apr 5, 2023
Crime The Oddball Sideshow for Trump’s Arraignment? The Case of a Movie Producer Who Allegedly Waltzed Into a West Village Townhouse to Steal 9 Paintings Raymond Bouderau appeared in the same courthouse as the former president to face charges of burglary. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 4, 2023
Op-Ed Archives Often Aren’t in the Hands of Their Own Communities. Here’s Why We Need to Support Self-Sustaining Models Lisa Darms, Director of Hauser & Wirth Institute, explains how we can support community archives. By Lisa Darms, Apr 4, 2023
Crime A Drunken Party Guest Has Pled Guilty to Stealing the Thumb of a $4.5 Million Terracotta Warrior at a Philadelphia Museum He faces a maximum sentence of two years in jail and a fine of $20,000. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 4, 2023
Crime An Artist Lost Hundreds of Digital Artworks When His Laptop Was Stolen. He’s Now Offering a Reward of $1.2 Million for Its Safe Return It's a cruel irony for an artist whose work frequently focuses on money and theft. By Richard Whiddington, Apr 4, 2023
Crime The Met Museum Returns More Looted Art to Greece and Turkey, Including 15 Antiquities Seized From Disgraced Dealer Subhash Kapoor The D.A.'s office has confiscated a total of 17 artifacts from the Met this year to date. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 3, 2023
Politics Russia Has Added Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova to Its Most-Wanted List, Claiming Her NFT Art Is ‘Obscene’ The government wants to press criminal charges based on Tolokonnikova's 2021 digital artwork. By Sarah Cascone, Mar 30, 2023
Opinion How We Ended Up in the Era of ‘Quantitative Aesthetics,’ Where Data Points Dictate Taste The Humanities Crash and the McNamara Fallacy in culture. By Ben Davis, Mar 29, 2023
Politics London Will Honor the Victims of the Transatlantic Slave Trade With a New Memorial in the Docklands The city's mayor has committed more than $600,000 to develop the memorial, which will be unveiled in 2026. By Vivienne Chow, Mar 27, 2023
