Politics The German Government Is Putting More Than $2 Million Behind Restitution Research Into Objects From Colonial Contexts The money will fund the research of colonial-era objects in German institutional collections. By Kate Brown, Feb 5, 2019
Art World Baaad Luck: How a Bunch of Bighorn Sheep Nixed Jenny Holzer’s Plans for Light Projections at Desert X An unusual strain of pneumonia has been killing the sheep at an alarming rate. By Caroline Goldstein, Feb 5, 2019
Events and Parties The Met Museum Envisions a Future Where Artificial Intelligence Helps You Find #Art Posts for Your Instagram The New York institution teamed up with Microsoft and MIT to create prototypes that imagine how AI can help museums engage audiences. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 5, 2019
Exhibitions Cai Guo-Qiang Will Blow Up a Volcanic Work of Art in the Heart of Ancient Pompeii The Chinese artist's spectacular work in the ancient Roman city is part of an international tour that heads next to Paris. By Kate Brown, Feb 5, 2019
Art World Art Industry News: MoMA Will Close This Summer to Completely Rethink How It Shows Its Art + Other Stories Plus, Megan Markle and her husband get to pick from the Royal Collection and Facebook is still censoring antiquities from museum collections. By artnet News, Feb 5, 2019
People Collector Budi Tek on His ‘Mission Impossible’: To Give China Its First Public Contemporary Art Museum Before He Dies The Indonesian-Chinese collector spoke to artnet News's Andrew Goldstein about his urgent quest to save his groundbreaking private museum. By Andrew Goldstein, Feb 5, 2019
Auctions Are Female Old Masters an Untapped Market or a Marketing Ploy? Experts Are Divided, But Buyers Don’t Seem to Care Rarely traded work by female artists helped Sotheby's Masters Week generate $99.8 million, an eight-year high. By Judd Tully, Feb 5, 2019
Exhibitions The UK Was Desperate to Keep This American Billionaire’s Pontormo. Now You Can See It at the Getty Collector Tom Hill defied British convention when he refused to sell the painting at a loss to London's National Gallery. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 5, 2019
Art World Patek Philippe Arranges a Grand Parisian Debut for the Twenty-4 Automatic During Haute Couture Week There was nothing ordinary about the glittering evening as it got underway in Paris last month. By Nazanin Lankarani, Feb 5, 2019
Art World What Worries Today’s Billionaires? Protecting Priceless Art From Flying Champagne Corks on Their Superyachts A new course teaches crew members how to care for blue-chip art collections on the high seas. By Henri Neuendorf, Feb 4, 2019
Art and Law A Painter Is Suing Ariana Grande for Allegedly Ripping Off His Work in a Viral Music Video Sections of Grande's "God Is a Woman" music video bear a striking resemblance to two painting by Vladimir Kush. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 4, 2019
Art World Move Over, New York: Here Are the 10 Best Cities for Art Lovers in the US, According to a New Study The results may surprise you. By Caroline Goldstein, Feb 4, 2019
Art World Nigerian Officials Want the British Museum to Return the First Object Taken From the Country During the Colonial Period A museum promises to be a "befitting home" for the historic woodcarving. By Naomi Rea, Feb 4, 2019
Events and Parties Editors’ Picks: 11 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week From an artist-led cruise aboard the Staten Island Ferry to a biennial in Brooklyn, here's what we're looking forward to this week. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 4, 2019
People The Curator of the Met’s Celebrated Michelangelo Show Just Won the First $100,000 Vilcek Prize to Support Immigrant Achievement Carmen C. Bambach is a curator of Italian and Spanish drawings at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 4, 2019
