Artnet News Pro Christie’s Came Out of the Pandemic to Have Its Most Lucrative First Half in Years. Here, Execs at the Auction House Explain How They Did It The sales thus far have amounted to $3.5 billion. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 13, 2021
Museums & Institutions The Daughter of Collectors Who Gave the Beyeler Foundation a Trove of Art Is ‘Scandalized’ by the Museum’s Plan to Sell A series of Dubuffet paintings donated to the museum in 2013 are now headed for sale. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 12, 2021
Artnet News Pro How Will Art Basel Pull Off a Full-Scale Fair in September? Here’s How Organizers Are Getting Creative to Get It Done The physical edition of Art Basel boasts some novel new options for exhibitors. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 5, 2021
Artnet News Pro ‘Fierce’ Demand From Collectors in Asia Propelled Sotheby’s $217 Million Sales of British and Contemporary Art in London The night was marked by respectable, but not frothy, bidding. By Eileen Kinsella, Jun 29, 2021
On View Researchers Discovered a Bookmark Drawn on by Vincent van Gogh Inside an Old Novel. Now, It’s on View for the First Time The bookmark was tucked inside a novel about French peasants for over 135 years. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 28, 2021
People The Centre Pompidou Has Named Its Former Director, Laurent Le Bon, to Lead the Paris Museum Once Again Le Bon was most recently president of the Picasso Museum in Paris. By Eileen Kinsella, Jun 25, 2021
Market Sotheby’s Is Opening a Pop-Up Sales Gallery in Monaco as the French Riviera Art Scene Continues to Heat Up This Summer Hauser and Wirth and Johann König have also recently opened spaces there. By Eileen Kinsella, Jun 24, 2021
Politics A Spanish Art Professor and Her Students Staged a Silent Protest at the Picasso Museum to Raise Awareness of the Artist’s Treatment of Women The group showed up with custom t-shirts calling out Picasso’s behavior. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 7, 2021
Art World Can This $45 Thrift Store Painting Provide Clues About Vincent Van Gogh’s Final Days in France? Art Historians Are Hoping So It appears to be the work of Edmund Walpole Brooke, an artist who knew Van Gogh in his final days. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 7, 2021
Art & Exhibitions We Took a Preview Tour of the Immersive Van Gogh Experience Opening in New York. It Was Actually Pretty Spectacular The show made its first big splash when it was used as a set for "Emily in Paris." By Eileen Kinsella, Jun 4, 2021
Artnet News Pro Sotheby’s Returns to Germany With a New Cologne Office as It Seeks to Recapture the Country’s Expanding Market Sotheby's will face stiff competition from the country's well-established regional auction houses. By Eileen Kinsella, Jun 1, 2021
Artnet News Pro Why Did the Star Lot of a Christie’s Single-Lot Sale in Hong Kong Flop This Week? That’s the $58 Million Question No one took home Xu Beihong's painting 'Slave and Lion.' By Eileen Kinsella, May 26, 2021
Art World Employees at the Whitney Museum and the Hispanic Society Join the Growing Ranks of U.S. Culture Workers Seeking to Unionize Staffers from both institutions are trying to join the United Auto Workers. By Sarah Cascone, May 18, 2021
Art History There Are No Pictures of Van Gogh as an Adult, So a Digital Artist Created Eerily Realistic Photos to Show How He Might Have Looked No photographs of the artist as an adult have survived to this day. By Sarah Cascone, May 17, 2021
Law & Politics An International Feud Over a Looted Pissarro Painting Comes to a Head as a French Court Rejects a Holocaust Survivor’s Claim The court denied Léone Meyer's attempt to overturn a settlement with an Oklahoma art museum. By Sarah Cascone, May 14, 2021