Wet Paint Lawsuit Alleges Leon Black Used a Fake Museum Gig as Bait in Abusive Relationship, Galas Go Back to IRL, & More Art-World Gossip Which downtown hotspot did Met director Max Hollein hit up? What upstate gallery is opening a new Manhattan outpost? Read on for answers. By Nate Freeman, Jun 4, 2021
Art World Is This Man the Evil Genius Behind the Old-Master Forgery Spree Called the ‘Crime of the Century’? We Paid Him a Visit to Find Out Is this the art crime of the century? By Simon Hewitt, Apr 26, 2021
Opinion The Gray Market: How a Brazen Hack of That $69 Million Beeple Revealed the True Vulnerability of the NFT Market (and Other Insights) Our columnist explores whether a project called NFTheft undermines a core value proposition of non-fungible tokens. By Tim Schneider, Apr 21, 2021
Art World Here Are 19 Great New Art Movies You Can Stream Now, From a Philosophical Ode to Banksy to Dueling Exposés on the Knoedler Scandal Think you've streamed everything? Try one of these new art films. By Sarah Cascone, Mar 31, 2021
Art World Oops! A New Documentary About the Knoedler Fakes Scandal Accidentally Included an Artist’s Trick Image as Real This looks like a picture of Jackson Pollock in his studio, but it isn't. By Brian Boucher, Mar 5, 2021
Crime A $1 Million Marsden Hartley That Was Stolen 30 Years Ago and Replaced With a Forgery Is Finally Returning to Its Original Owner The case took some wild twists and turns on its year-long journey through the courts. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 11, 2020
Art World Art Industry News: At Least 12 Museums in New York Are Discussing Mergers or Closures Amid Financial Pressure + Other Stories Plus, the Knoedler forgery scandal will become a feature film and a David Hockney landscape could fetch $35 million at Phillips. By Artnet News, Oct 27, 2020
Opinion The Gray Market: Why Inigo Philbrick’s Arrest Doesn’t Mean the Art Market Is Done With Him Yet (and Other Insights) Our columnist ranks the newly arrested dealer alongside the biggest art-market scandals of the 2010s—and reminds us the case is far from over. By Tim Schneider, Jun 15, 2020
Art World Art Industry News: A Fugitive at the Center of the $80 Million Knoedler Scandal Speaks Out for the First Time + Other Stories Plus, a gallery attendant is up for the ÂŁ35,000 BP Portrait Award and Dominique LĂ©vy says online art fairs "don't work." By Artnet News, Apr 24, 2020
Art World Art Industry News: Gagosian Gallery Furloughs Part-Time Staffers and Cuts Pay for Everyone Else Amid Market Struggles + Other Stories Plus, Art Paris exhibitors agitate for better refunds and there's a wild new theory about Duchamp's famous urinal. By Artnet News, Apr 17, 2020
The Big Interview Who Was the Mystical Painter Agnes Pelton? Curator Barbara Haskell on the Otherworldly Story of a Brooklyn Artist Who Sought Enlightenment in the Desert The Whitney curator details the captivating life of the pioneering American painter. By Andrew Goldstein, Apr 3, 2020
Art World Wet Paint: Art-Storage Closures Throw Deals Into Disarray, Hardcore Bidders Still Show Up at Auction Houses, & More Juicy Art-World Gossip What photography legend is riding out the crisis with shotguns and Purell? Who is still having auctions this week? Read on for answers. By Nate Freeman, Mar 20, 2020
Art World Editors’ Picks: 19 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week From the Armory Party at MoMA to the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, there's something for everyone this week. By Sarah Cascone, Mar 2, 2020
Art World 5 of the Most Notorious Art Thieves, Swindlers, and Forgers of the 21st Century—and How They Were Finally Caught These scammers of the art world concocted elaborate ruses that read like fiction, but all are true. By Katie White, Jan 1, 2020
Law & Politics A Bombshell Lawsuit Claims That High-Flying Art Dealer Inigo Philbrick Swindled His Clients by Selling the Same Rudolf Stingel Again and Again The case includes accusations of a fake auction guarantee and double-dealing. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 8, 2019