Art & Exhibitions ‘They Seized the Opportunities’: A New London Exhibition Tells the Remarkable Stories of the Women of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement The National Portrait Gallery celebrates the female stars of the art movement that took Victorian Britain by storm. By Javier Pes, Oct 15, 2019
Art World Dalí and Dash: A Thief Walked Into a San Francisco Gallery and Ran Off With a $20,000 Etching by the Spanish Surrealist The thief was in and out of the gallery in 30 seconds. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 15, 2019
The Big Interview So, Is MoMA Woke Now? Not Quite. A Q&A With Director Glenn Lowry on Why ‘You Can Never Be Comprehensive in Some Absolute Way’ As the museum readies for its public reopening, artnet News’s Andrew Goldstein spoke with Glenn Lowry about its mission and goals. By Andrew Goldstein, Oct 15, 2019
Art & Exhibitions ‘Formal Analysis Cannot Occlude the Real Issues’: How Curators Are Addressing Gauguin’s Dark Side in a New Show at the National Gallery in London Art museums are grappling with how to display great works by artists who abused their models. By Javier Pes, Oct 9, 2019
Art World Robert De Niro Joined Robert Storr to Talk About the New Monograph They Worked on Dedicated to His Artist Father’s Legacy The Oscar-winning actor paid tribute to his father and his art at the 92nd Street Y. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 9, 2019
Market A $35 Million de Kooning Painting and a $25 Million Monet Are Among the Highlights of New York’s Fall Auction Season Sotheby's will sell a de Kooning painting from Robert Mnuchin and a Holocaust survivor's Monet canvas this fall. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 9, 2019
Analysis How Scholars and Curators Helped Create an International Art Market for Pioneering American Modernist Marsden Hartley The market for the artist's work, once confined to the US, has become much more widespread. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 29, 2019
People Famed Writer Susan Sontag Had a Brief Affair With Jasper Johns—and It Ended When He Left Her at a New Year’s Eve Party The affair, according to a new biography of Sontag by Benjamin Moser, started in 1965. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 25, 2019
Politics The National Gallery in London and the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin Are Hatching a Secretive Agreement Ahead of Brexit to Share Paintings The plan would renew a historic agreement that settled a long-simmering dispute over Impressionist masterpieces. By Javier Pes, Sep 20, 2019
On View Van Gogh Had Many Friends, and Even a Girlfriend. A New Show Seeks to Debunk the Myth of the ‘Lonely, Tormented Artist’ An exhibition in Den Bosch counters the popular misconception of the artist as outsider. By Nina Siegal, Sep 20, 2019
Politics What You Think of This Sam Gilliam Painting Reveals Your True Feelings About Donald Trump, Too, Pollsters Say The findings have been dubbed the "Coffee Thyme Gap." By Sarah Cascone, Sep 17, 2019
Opinion Our Exhibition on Nazi Design in the Netherlands Has Been Controversial. Here’s Why We Did It—and Why It’s More Urgent Now Than Ever Timo de Rijk, the director of the Design Museum Den Bosch, defends his institution's divisive exhibition. By Timo de Rijk, Sep 17, 2019
People Painter Mary Abbott, a Fixture of New York’s Abstract Expressionist Movement, Has Died at Age 98 The artist "maintained her home and light-filled studio until her death,” said one curator who knew her well. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 11, 2019
Art World A Vast Bauhaus Museum Opens in the German City Where the Famous Art School Came of Age The museum tells the story of Nazi opposition but overlooks the rise of the far right today. By Quynh Tran, Sep 9, 2019
Art & Exhibitions The Notorious Collection of Nazi-Looted Art Amassed by Hildebrand Gurlitt Will Travel for an Emotional Show in Jerusalem The show is called "Fateful Choices: Art from the Gurlitt Trove." By Sarah Cascone, Sep 6, 2019
