Politics German Museums Fine Climate Protestors for Damaging Property, But Environmental Groups Show No Signs of Slowing Down The Dresden State Art Collections has initiated civil proceedings and filed a complaint with the city's public prosecutor’s office after activists damaged Raphael’s Sistine Madonna. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Oct 26, 2022
Politics Artists Unfurled Red Banners From the Guggenheim Rotunda to Support the Iran Women’s Protest Movement Protests have embroiled Iran since the death of Mahsa Amini. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 24, 2022
Crime A Michigan Photography Dealer Allegedly Bilked Elderly Clients Out of More Than $1.6 Million by Pretending to Be in a Coma Wendy Halsted Beard allegedly sold consigned artworks without notifying their owners, according to court documents. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 24, 2022
Politics Feminist Artists Marched for Reproductive Freedom in New York—and Are Taking the Message to Voters in Red States With a Billboard Campaign Michele Pred's latest feminist parade is accompanied by a billboard art campaign in support of abortion rights staged in 12 states. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 24, 2022
Politics German Collector Hasso Plattner Has Temporarily Closed His Museum After Climate Activists Threw Mashed Potatoes at His $111 Million Monet The institution plans "to discuss the risks revealed by the recent attacks" with other international museums. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Oct 24, 2022
Crime New York Has Returned Hundreds More Looted Antiquities Linked to Disgraced Dealer Subhash Kapoor to India Hundreds of looted objects linked to Kapoor have been returned to India in the past decade. By Caroline Goldstein, Oct 20, 2022
Art Criticism The Tudor Dynasty Seethed With Insecurity and Intrigue. A New Met Show Suggests That’s What Made Its Art So Lasting “The Tudors" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art shows a dazzling array of visual strategies for rule. By Eleanor Heartney, Oct 18, 2022
Crime A Group of Young Thieves Are Posing as Art Students to Rob Galleries on New York’s Lower East Side Betty Cunningham and Nicodim galleries are among the half-dozen targets. By Annie Armstrong, Oct 18, 2022
Crime A Visitor to a Buzzy Gallery Opening in London Later Returned in the Night and Made Off With a $20,000 Painting If it's not returned, "they'll abandon and destroy it—that would break my heart," said the owner of Ramiken gallery. By Vivienne Chow, Oct 17, 2022
Politics After 19 Bitter Days on Strike, the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Union Has Reached a Tentative Deal With Management If the contract is approved by the union's members, they will return to work on Monday. By Ben Davis, Oct 14, 2022
Crime French Authorities Say They Have Nabbed a Youth Cyber-Gang That Stole $2.5 Million in NFTs The phishing scheme lured collectors with the promise of animating their Bored Apes. By Vittoria Benzine, Oct 13, 2022
Politics Self-Censorship Among Artists and Museum Workers Is on the Rise in Poland, a New Report Finds But it may be more difficult than ever for the E.U. to take action. By Vivienne Chow, Oct 11, 2022
Know Your Rights What Happens If My A.I. Art Prompt Spontaneously Produces Shrek? + More Artists’-Rights Questions, Answered Plus, why did ‘The People’s Joker’ get shut down if parody is protected? And can famous lines from books be used in an advertising campaign? By Katarina Feder, Oct 10, 2022
Op-Ed Why Does the United States Government Want to Talk to the Supreme Court About Andy Warhol? The Solicitor General's brief in a landmark Supreme Court case seems to support a photographer whose work Warhol appropriated. But it's more complicated than it seems. By Amy J. Goldrich, Oct 6, 2022
Crime A Disgruntled Tourist Smashed Two 2,000-Year-Old Statues in the Vatican Because He Was Denied a Meeting With Pope Francis The damaged objects from the Chiaramonti Museum were described as "minor works" and are now at a conservation laboratory. By Vittoria Benzine, Oct 5, 2022
