Law & Politics An Appeals Court Says the Met Can Keep Its $100 Million Picasso, Ending a Drawn-Out Restitution Case The court ruled that the heirs had waited too long to seek their restitution claim. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 27, 2019
Auctions A Serene Monet and Several Restituted Treasures Reassure the Market at Sotheby’s $124 Million Impressionist and Modern Sale The action assuaged market jitters after a rocky performance at Christie's Impressionist and Modern sale on Tuesday. By Colin Gleadell, Jun 19, 2019
How Neal and Wendy Leviton Went From Buying Art on Cruises to Running Their Own Online Gallery By Artnet Gallery Network, Jun 19, 2019
Auctions Late Picasso Works Save an Otherwise Lackluster $46 Million Impressionist and Modern Art Sale at Christie’s London Meanwhile, Barbara Hepworth and Frank Bowling headlined the auction house's lively Modern British art sale. By Colin Gleadell, Jun 18, 2019
Art World This Newly Discovered Radio Clip May Be the Only Known Recording of Frida Kahlo’s Voice. Listen to It Here The rare audio tape made in the 1950s was discovered in Mexico's national sound library. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 13, 2019
Art World Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia Cathedral Has Operated Without Permission for 137 Years, Paying Millions in Fines. Now, It Finally Has a Permit A nightmarish story of bureaucratic red tape, the Catalan architect first applied for a license in 1885. The city never responded. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 10, 2019
Auctions Monet’s ‘Water Lilies’ and an Offbeat Modigliani Will Lead Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Auctions in London This Month The auction house is following up its record-setting $111 million Monet last month. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 7, 2019
Art World For Decades a Museum Displayed a Painting of a Brutal Belgian King—Until a Helpful Visitor Pointed Out It’s Actually Auguste Rodin On a visit to the Lázaro Galdiano Museum in Madrid, a man saw something that generations of curators didn't. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 5, 2019
Art World Caribbean Communities in Toronto Helped the Art Gallery of Ontario Acquire a Historic Trove of Photographs From the Islands The $300,000 acquisition fills in a huge gap in the museum's collection. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 5, 2019
Art World A Seattle Man Discovered a Trove of Long-Lost Weegee Photos From 1937 in His Kitchen Cabinet The man originally bought the 73 images at a second-hand shop in the 1970s. By Sarah Cascone, May 23, 2019
Art World From the Rembrandt in the Rec Room to a Degas on a Bus, These 10 Priceless Artworks Were Found in the Unlikeliest Places Sometimes, you just have to know where to look. By Katie White, May 19, 2019
Law & Politics A High-Profile Impressionist Art Collector Says Wildenstein Sold Him a ‘Clever Fake’ Bonnard—and Now the Courts Will Decide The collector bought the painting from the gallery more than thirty years ago. By Eileen Kinsella, May 9, 2019
Auctions Here’s What to Expect at the $1.3 Billion Spring Auctions in New York, From a $58 Million Koons to a Once-Lost Cézanne All the highlights from the Impressionist, modern, and contemporary art auctions in New York next week. By Eileen Kinsella, May 9, 2019
Art & Exhibitions Gagosian’s Extravagant ‘Picasso’s Women’ Show Includes That Painting Steve Wynn Tore With His Elbow “Picasso’s Women: Fernande to Jacqueline” is a megawatt tribute to Picasso's late biographer John Richardson. By Taylor Dafoe, May 2, 2019
Auctions Sotheby’s Veteran David Norman, Who Helped Sell the First Work of Art to Break $100 Million at Auction, Joins Phillips Norman led Sotheby's record-setting $104 million sale of a work by Picasso in 2004. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 29, 2019
