Art and Law A Billionaire Collector Is Suing Hirschl and Adler Galleries for Allegedly Swindling Him Over the Sale of a $12 Million Presidential Painting Former hedge-fund manager Michael Steinhardt says the gallery misled him during a consignment. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 23, 2020
Politics In a Landslide Decision, Workers at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston Have Become the Latest Major US Museum Staff to Unionize Museums employees across the country have been unionizing in the past several years. By Brian Boucher, Nov 23, 2020
Art World Archaeologists at Pompeii Have Discovered the Bones of Two More Men Killed by the Eruption of Vesuvius The two men may have been trying to escape the city. By Brian Boucher, Nov 23, 2020
Art World Melania Trump Just Had This ‘Humble’ Isamu Noguchi Sculpture Installed at the White House Rose Garden The sculpture is the first work by an Asian American artist to join the national collection. By Caroline Goldstein, Nov 23, 2020
Art World Art Industry News: Can Notre Dame Get a Contemporary Update? There’s One Last Window of Opportunity + Other Stories Plus, Nottingham says that trash pickup ruined its Banksy mural and UNESCO calls to protect cultural heritage in Azerbaijan and Armenia. By Artnet News, Nov 23, 2020
Art World An Underwater Sculpture Park Coming to Miami Beach Is a Stark Warning About What Climate Change May Bring The underwater sculptures will form a kind of reef to help regrow damaged coral. By Brian Boucher, Nov 23, 2020
Art Fairs Latin American Galleries Missing Out on Miami Beach Have Banded Together to Form Their Own Version of Art Basel in Mexico City The event was spearheaded by the gallery kurimanzutto. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 23, 2020
Opinion The Gray Market: The Surprising Reason Corporate Collections Are Proving More Durable Than Art Museums (and Other Insights) Our columnist digs into history to unearth the reasons major banks are filling the cultural void left by struggling institutions. By Tim Schneider, Nov 23, 2020
People What I Buy and Why: South African Collector Pulane Kingston on the One Work She’s Still Trying to Convince an Artist to Sell Her Top collectors share their strategies (and obsessions). By Naomi Rea, Nov 23, 2020
People How Master Portraitist Jess T. Dugan Empowers Subjects to Open Up for Remarkably Intimate Photographs Dugan belongs to a new generation of queer photographers focused on empowering their subjects. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 23, 2020
Art World The Investigative Art Collective Forensic Architecture Has Issued a Report on What Led to the Blast in Beirut The group has published the first full account of the explosion in a 15-minute video pieced together from an array of materials. By Brian Boucher, Nov 20, 2020
Art World From the Pig Couch That Captured the Internet’s Heart to a Devastating Report on US Museums: The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week Catch up on this week's news—fast. By Artnet News, Nov 20, 2020
Art World Like You, Artist Marcel Dzama Is Charmed by the Tiny Owl Found in the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree—See His Painted Tribute Here Dzama is a true talon-t. By Caroline Goldstein, Nov 20, 2020
Auctions The Secret Buyer of the Royal Opera House’s £13 Million David Hockney Is Its Own Board Chair—and He’s Lending It Back David Ross purchased the artwork at Christie’s last month and will now lend it back to the British public. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 20, 2020
Art World The New Mayor of Montpellier Wants to Crunch the Budget for the City’s Premier Contemporary Art Institution The mayor says the center, run by art critic Nicolas Bourriaud, costs too much money and should focus on different programming. By Naomi Rea, Nov 20, 2020
