Auctions Sotheby’s Undergoes a Major Shakeup as More Top Executives Leave Under New Owner Patrick Drahi August Uribe, one of Sotheby's most visible and longest serving staffers, is among those headed out the door. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 4, 2019
On View The Impressionist Painters Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt Had a Stormy Relationship. Now a New Play Is Bringing Their Battle of Wills to Life The play is on now through the beginning of January. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 28, 2019
On View The Postwar Period Saw an Explosion of Female Painters at the Art Students League. A New Exhibition Celebrates Their Achievements A group of the former students came out in force for the show's opening. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 27, 2019
Art & Exhibitions Most Know Photographer Dora Maar as Picasso’s Spurned Lover. But a New Exhibition Argues We Got Her Story All Wrong The Tate Modern show reveals a relentlessly inventive artist. By Lorena Muñoz-Alonso, Nov 24, 2019
Art & Exhibitions Were the Mexican Muralists America’s Greatest Street Artists? A New Whitney Show Will Examine Their Too-Long-Ignored Legacy The exhibition is a major statement from a museum devoted to the history of American art. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 14, 2019
Art World Paintings by Van Dyck and Delacroix Are Among a Trove of Almost 400 Works Heading to the Met From a Late Trustee “The Met would not be what it is today without Jayne and Charles Wrightsman," said the museum's director, Max Hollein. By Brian Boucher, Nov 13, 2019
Art World A New Museum Dedicated to Picasso and Giacometti Is Launching in Beijing Next Year France is taking full advantage of China’s growing demand for Modern art. By Naomi Rea, Nov 6, 2019
Galleries Will Tech Billionaires Pay Up for Picasso? Pace’s Latest Show Brings the Artist’s Work to Facebook and Google’s Doorstep The gallery is marking its fifth anniversary in the city by organizing its first-ever major Picasso exhibition. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 3, 2019
Auctions Christie’s Is Selling a $50 Million Collection Featuring Georgia O’Keeffe and Frida Kahlo Flower Paintings and a Moody Magritte The collection will be sold across a series of sales through March. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 30, 2019
Art World The Getty Museum Closes Its Doors as Wildfires Rage in California, But Says the Art Is Safe Inside Its Fireproof Building The Kincade fire in Sonoma has also forced the closure of the Charles M. Schulz Museum. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 29, 2019
Auctions A Late Billionaire Collector’s Foundation Is Selling Off Artworks by Bill Traylor and Others to Benefit a Harlem Children’s Charity The William Louise-Dreyfus Foundation is offering the work through Sotheby's, Christie's, and David Zwirner. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 28, 2019
On View With One Astonishing Gift, a Berkeley Art Museum Has Become an International Hub for African American Quilts—See Highlights Here The late Oakland-based collector Eli Leon donated his entire trove of African American quilts to the Berkeley institution. By Caroline Goldstein, Oct 21, 2019
Galleries Duchamp Scholar Francis Naumann Says He’s Closing His New York Gallery Because Young People Find Modernism ‘Passé’ The gallerist is shuttering his business after nearly 20 years. By Artnet News, Oct 18, 2019
Opinion MoMA’s Nimble New Incarnation Is Well Suited to a World in Constant Flux. If Only It Didn’t Choose Tourists Over Its Artists The museum's newly expanded home corrects some of the historical record, but it doesn't go quite far enough. Maybe it can't. By Ben Davis, Oct 17, 2019
The Big Interview Can MoMA’s Expansion Ever Really Be Finished? Glenn Lowry on Where the Museum May—or May Not—Go From Here In the second half of a two-part interview, MoMA director Glenn Lowry spoke about the future of the museum. By Andrew Goldstein, Oct 15, 2019
