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 13, 2021
Auctions A Collection of Impressionist Paintings Assembled by a Campbell’s-Soup Heir May Fetch Over $60 Million at Sotheby’s The sale offers a sign that the market for masterpieces may be returning. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 13, 2021
Art World A Neuroscientist and a Physicist Used A.I. to Recreate a Lost Painting Buried Under a Beloved Picasso Canvas They've also released NFTs based on the lost image. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 8, 2021
Crime Spanish Police Seized Forged Paintings Attributed to El Greco, Goya, and Modigliani After a Dealer Tried to Sell Them for €12.5 Million Buyers had already lined up for the fake paintings. By Artnet News, Mar 30, 2021
Politics The Musée d’Orsay Will Be Renamed the Musée d’Orsay–Valéry Giscard d’Estaing—Really—in Honor of the Late French President Behind Its Founding The former president helped establish the popular museum. By Artnet News, Mar 29, 2021
Auctions A New World Record for Banksy and a Pretty Little Picasso Powered Christie’s Seemingly Endless $275 Million Contemporary Art Auction The sale went on and on for four hours. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 23, 2021
Auctions A $35 Million Monet Will Highlight Christie’s New 20th-Century Evening Sale as the Auction House Shakes Up Its Departmental Categories The auction house is redefining what it means by Modern and contemporary art. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 17, 2021
Market The Art Industry Is in Its Worst Recession Since 2009, Art Basel’s Latest Art Market Report Finds Global sales of art and antiques in 2020 were down 22 percent from 2019, as trading dropped across practically all market sectors. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 15, 2021
Art World Alexander Calder’s Complete Archive Is Now Entirely Online—Discover Some of the Rare Photos, Sketches, and Ephemera Here Click through the newly unveiled research archive before seeing MoMA’s ambitious new Calder show. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 12, 2021
Art World The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Lands a Major Gift of Work by Black American Artists From Pamela Joyner and Alfred Giuffrida The donated works are primarily by artists born before 1930. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 11, 2021
Galleries A Historic New York Gallery Is Turning Into a Nonprofit Research Institute Dedicated to Schiele, Grandma Moses, and Other Artists The Kallir Research Institute is taking over operations for Galerie St. Etienne. By Sarah Cascone, Mar 10, 2021
Auctions A Vincent van Gogh Landscape Never Before Seen in Public Could Fetch Nearly $10 Million at Auction Next Month The painting has been housed in the private collection of a French family for more than a century. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 24, 2021
Art World The Enormous Seven-Part Catalogue Raisonné on Pioneering Spiritual Abstractionist Hilma af Klint Is Finally Being Published The first three of seven volumes are out this month. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 16, 2021
