People Former Tate Director Chris Dercon Urges Saudi Arabia to Lend the Vanished ‘Salvator Mundi’ to the Louvre Dercon says it’s not too late for the owners of the Salvator Mundi to lend it to the Louve’s Leonardo da Vinci blockbuster. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 1, 2019
Politics Christie’s Asks to Be Excluded From Trump’s Tariffs on Chinese Imports, Claiming It Would Cause a ‘Significant Loss’ to Its Business The auction house was among the first companies to seek relief from a 15 percent tax on art and antiques in China. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 1, 2019
People An Emmy-Winning Actress Will Play Anna Delvey in Netflix’s Too-Good-to-Be-True Movie About the Infamous Art-World Scammer The Netflix series will star Emmy-winner Julia Garner alongside other veteran actors. By Caroline Goldstein, Nov 1, 2019
Art World See 8 Intriguing Finds at This Year’s TEFAF New York, From a Greek Suit of Armor to an Ancient Bust Once Owned by Warhol See highlights from the swanky Upper East Side-based art fair. By Eileen Kinsella & Sarah Cascone & Tim Schneider, Nov 1, 2019
Art World Art Industry News: Cindy Sherman Says That Posting Selfies on Instagram Is a ‘Cry for Help’ + Other Stories Plus, another London arts institution spurns Sackler money and an art historian says only 23 percent of MoMA's new display is by women artists. By Artnet News, Nov 1, 2019
Art World Wet Paint: Billionaire Divorcées Leave Gagosian in the Lurch, Frieze Goes on the Attack, & More Juicy Art-World Gossip Which art fair is demanding exclusivity from its exhibitors? Which artist cruelly left their gallery via tweet? Read on for answers. By Nate Freeman, Oct 31, 2019
Art and Law Disgraced Financier Jho Low Is Turning Over a Picasso and Basquiat Once Given to Leonardo DiCaprio as Part of a $700 Million Settlement Low's settlement with the US Justice Department is said to be the largest civil forfeiture deal ever. By Julia Halperin, Oct 31, 2019
On View ‘I’m Not Trying to Spell Out a Story’: Watch How Artist Julie Mehretu Uses Massive Scale and Complex Layers to Create Paintings You Get Lost In As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. By Caroline Goldstein, Oct 31, 2019
Exhibitions What Can You Expect at This Year’s Performa? A Haunted High School Talent Show, a Six-Hour Clay Dance, and More The eighth edition of New York’s performance art biennial features new works by Yvonne Rainer, Kia LaBeija, Ed Atkins, and Bunny Rogers. By Artnet News, Oct 31, 2019
Auctions Fashion Designer Marc Jacobs Is Selling Off His Entire Art Collection, Including a $3 Million Ed Ruscha Jacobs says he’s clearing out the old to make way for the new. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 31, 2019
Events and Parties See Photos From artnet and Hennessy Paradis Imperial’s Celebration of Artist Phillip K. Smith III’s New Los Angeles Exhibition Guests were taken on a private jet from Los Angeles to Smith's Palm Desert studio, where they spent the day previewing his latest artworks. By In Partnership with Hennessy Paradis Imperial, Oct 31, 2019
Art World After a Five-Year Term, Tom Finkelpearl Is Out as New York City’s Commissioner of Cultural Affairs The reason for his departure is unclear. By Caroline Goldstein, Oct 31, 2019
Auctions This Bronze Sculpture Touted as a Leonardo da Vinci Was Supposed to Fetch $50 Million at Auction. Instead, It Flopped With Zero Bids The sculpture, a bronze cast of a beeswax model, has been the subject of much speculation in scholarship circles. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 31, 2019
Exhibitions Treasures From King Tut’s Tomb Are Heading to London Before Returning to Egypt Forever. See Highlights Here Nearly half of the items have never left Egypt before. By Naomi Rea, Oct 31, 2019
Art World With a Soirée Themed to the Most Romantic Bridge in Paris, Van Cleef & Arpels Launched Poetic New Luxury Watches That Kiss Six new styles were introduced to the French jewelry house’s charming Poetic Complications collection. By Nazanin Lankarani, Oct 31, 2019
