Artnet News Pro Even Amid a Softer Market, Miriam Cahn’s Auction Prices Are Spiking. How High Will They Go? And does the Swiss painter's success indicate a broader trend in the market for women artists? By Vivienne Chow, Oct 19, 2023
Museums & Institutions In the Wake of a Major Theft Scandal, the British Museum Plans to Spend $12 Million to Fully Digitize Its Collection The museum expects the digitization project will take five years to complete. By Adam Schrader, Oct 19, 2023
Law & Politics Established New York Dealer Revealed as Antiquities Trafficker in Ongoing U.S. Probe to Identify and Return Stolen Cultural Artifacts Prosecutors lay out the trail of dozens of works stolen from Greece, Italy, and Turkey. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 17, 2023
The Back Room The Back Room: Rothschild Ruminations This week, what the success of the first U.S. Rothschild sale means, former JTT owner’s new job, and more. By Artnet News, Oct 13, 2023
Art & Exhibitions An Exhibition by Cuban Artist Tania Bruguera, Delayed by Controversy, Opens in Chile With Considerable Alterations "Magnitud 11.9" explores democracy and its fragility. By Richard Whiddington, Oct 13, 2023
Art & Exhibitions Meet the 4 Artists Nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize, Now Showing at the Centre Pompidou Four artists contending with identity and migration have made the shortlist. By Anna Sansom, Oct 13, 2023
Auctions A Rare Ceramic Cat Made By David Hockney While He Was Hitchhiking as an Art Student Could Net $48,000 at Auction Another one of the artist's ceramic cats sold for $114,426 in June. By Adam Schrader, Oct 13, 2023
Museums & Institutions U.K. Museums Maintain That Art Theft Is ‘Rare’ Following Reports Exaggerating the Scale of the Problem Reports of thousands of missing items have come following the British Museum scandal this summer. By Adam Schrader, Oct 13, 2023
The Art Detective ‘Where Are You, People?’ The Art World’s Deafening Silence After the Hamas Attack in Israel No major institutions or galleries spoke out in solidarity with Israel for days. By Katya Kazakina, Oct 12, 2023
Auctions Minimal, Conceptual, Feminist: The Collection of Anne and Wolfgang Titze Heads to Christie’s Paris Proceeds from the auction will go toward establishing a foundation to organize exhibitions. By Ann Binlot, Oct 10, 2023
Law & Politics Documents Shed New Light on Leon Black’s Eight-Figure Art Deals—And How Jeffrey Epstein Helped Him Avoid Taxes A representative for Black insists the deals were "legal and appropriate." By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 10, 2023
Politics Documenta Condemns Members of the Art Collective ruangrupa—Who Curated Last Year’s Show—for ‘Liking’ Pro-Palestine Social Media Posts Two members of the Indonesian art collective said they "liked" a video of a pro-Palestine demonstration in Berlin by mistake. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 10, 2023
People María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Raven Chacon Are Among the Artists Who Won the 2023 MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grants Campos-Pons just opened a major solo show at the Brooklyn Museum. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 10, 2023
Auctions 5 Fascinating Backstories Behind the Week’s Auction Highlights, From Banksy’s Graffitied Church Window to Paula Rego’s Human Ostriches It's going to be a very busy week in London. By Lee Carter, Oct 9, 2023
On View María Magdalena Campos-Pons Shows Her Santería-Influenced, ‘Poetic Surrealist’ Art at the Brooklyn Museum, a Long Overdue New York Survey The artist's last major museum survey was in Indiana back in 2007. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 6, 2023