Art World ‘The Local Audience Is the Central Audience’: As Tourism Tanks Across the US, Museums Pivot to the Visitors in Their Own Backyards As US museums slowly reopen in some major cities, their strategies are evolving to accommodate audiences newly dominated by local visitors. By Eileen Kinsella & Tim Schneider, Sep 18, 2020
Art World Grimes, FKA Twigs, and Other Pop Stars Are Giving Free Art-History Lessons to Anyone With a Computer Google's Art Zoom offers zippy videos about Bruegel, Artemisia Gentileschi and more. By Artnet News, Sep 16, 2020
On View An Oxford Museum May Have Accidentally Kept a Rembrandt Painting Languishing in Its Basement for 40 Years, New Tests Suggest The painting had been dismissed as a copy in 1981. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 31, 2020
Auctions Christie’s Will Mount Two Major Sales to Auction Off the Estate of the Late Spanish-Language TV Tycoon Jerry Perenchio Perenchio was also a major donor to LACMA. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 27, 2020
Shows & Exhibitions ‘This Has Made Us Reflect on Who We Are’: The Met Celebrates Its Anniversary With a Sweeping Exhibition Surveying 150 Years of Its History The Metropolitan Museum of Art's long-awaited 150th anniversary exhibition is almost upon us. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 13, 2020
Art World A New Book Collects the Best Recreated Artworks From the #GettyChallenge—and Reflects On Why the Project Resonated So Much The public’s understanding of art history was surprisingly sophisticated, it turns out. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 6, 2020
Art World A Clumsy Museum Visitor Snapped the Toes Off a Historic Sculpture in Italy While Trying to Pose for a Selfie in Its Lap The statue of Paolina Borghese Bonaparte was the original plaster version of the marble masterpiece at the Galleria Borghese in Rome. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 3, 2020
People A New Study Suggests the Real Cause of Renaissance Master Raphael’s Death Was a Disease Similar to the Coronavirus It was long believed—wrongly—that the artist died of syphilis. By Artnet News, Jul 20, 2020
Art World What Can Art Teach Us About the History of Plant Cultivation? A Lot, It Turns Out—Via Something Called #ArtGenetics Art history offers a snapshot of what fruits and vegetables used to look like. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 17, 2020
‘Art Can Offer Respite’: Italian Old Master Dealer Carlo Orsi on Why a Slower Approach to Collecting Is Right for Uncertain Times Orsi's London gallery, Trinity Fine Art, is eschewing the virtual scramble in favor of a more individualized approach. By Artnet Gallery Network, Jul 13, 2020
Art World France Will Rebuild Notre Dame’s Spire as It Was, Scrapping Plans to Top the Fire-Ravaged Cathedral With a Contemporary Design President Emmanuel Macron has abandoned the idea of holding an international competition to design a new spire. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 13, 2020
Art World When the Louvre Reopens Next Week, Patient Visitors Will Be Able to View the Mona Lisa Practically Alone The museum has lost an estimated $45 million since the shutdown and expects attendance to plummet. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 26, 2020
Art World Now You Can See Long-Faded Details in Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Last Supper’ Thanks to Google and the Royal Academy in London Google has digitized—in ultra high resolution—a contemporaneous copy of da Vinci’s work that sheds new light on the masterpiece. By Artnet News, Jun 19, 2020
Auctions Sotheby’s Teams Up With Old Master Dealers to Offer More Than 100 Artworks From Their Inventories in a Pair of Unorthodox Online Sales The sales are part of an emerging lockdown-era trend of galleries joining forces with auction houses. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 15, 2020
Art World The Uffizi’s Director Wants to Return Renaissance Artworks to the Churches They Were Originally Made for Hundreds of Years Ago Much of Italian Renaissance art was originally made for churches. Should it go back? By Sarah Cascone, Jun 3, 2020
