Auctions An Unassuming Chardin Strawberry Painting Fetches a Record-Shattering $26.8 Million at Auction, Shocking Market-Watchers The luminous 18th-century still life is the only known instance in which he painted strawberries. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 25, 2022
Museums & Institutions A Masterwork by the First Female History Painter to Show at a Paris Salon Is Headed to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 'Psyche Bidding Her Family Farewell' was the first history painting shown at the Paris salon by a woman artist. By Sarah Cascone, Mar 23, 2022
Archaeology & History Workers Rebuilding Notre Dame Have Discovered Previously Unknown Tombs and a Mysterious Sarcophagus Beneath the Cathedral Using a camera, scientists have glimpsed a figure on a pillow of leaves within the sarcophagus. By Sarah Cascone, Mar 16, 2022
Auctions Bonhams Buys Boston-Based Skinner Auction House, Accelerating Consolidation of Midlevel Auctions The acquisition 'brings the world to New England,' and creates an entity known as Bonhams Skinner. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 16, 2022
Museums & Institutions After Years of Painstaking Research, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna Says Its ‘Salvator Mundi’ May Be a Genuine Titian The museum is crowdfunding to restore the painting. By Sarah Cascone, Mar 1, 2022
People Billionaire Art Collector Xavier Niel Bought a $226 Million Paris Hotel Rumored to Be the Future Home of His Cultural Foundation The sale is one of the largest real-estate deals in Paris history. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 24, 2022
Auctions A Long-Lost Religious Panel Set a $4 Million Auction Record for Northern Renaissance Artist Bernhard Strigel The work was part of an altarpiece in Memmingen and has a companion in the Louvre Abu Dhabi. By Naomi Rea, Feb 7, 2022
Art & Tech Can You Recognize These Celebrities Through a Renaissance Filter? This Website Uses A.I. to Leonardo da Vinci-fy Any Photo Take our quiz to see if you can identify the celebrities with 'Da Vinci face.' By Sarah Cascone, Feb 7, 2022
Auctions The Great-Grandaughter of a Jewish Art Patron Spent Years Tracking Down His Collection. She Just Sold the First Restituted Work A German state art collection restituted the painting to the heirs of Jules Strauss. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 2, 2022
Market A Dürer Drawing Picked Up at an Estate Sale for $30—Now Worth More Than $10 Million—Is Making Its Public Debut in New York The drawing has no comparables on the art market, dealers say. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 28, 2022
Artnet News Pro ‘It Felt Like Olden Times’: The Old Masters Market Roars Back to Life at Sotheby’s New York With an Impressive $91 Million Sale Competition was surprisingly intense even on lots that were already pre-sold. By Eileen Kinsella, Jan 27, 2022
Museums & Institutions More Than 60 Dutch Cultural Institutions Reopened as Nail Salons and Gyms for a Day to Protest Unequal Covid Restrictions The Mauritshuis, the Van Gogh Museum, and others forged ahead despite warnings from local mayors. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 20, 2022
Art Collectors The Late Billionaire Sheldon Solow’s Secretive New York Art Museum Will Finally Open to the Public After a Major Expansion For years, Solow's masterpieces have been locked away on the ground floor of 9 West 57th Street in Manhattan. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 19, 2022
Museums & Institutions Look Out, Van Gogh! ‘Mona Lisa’ Is Getting Her Own Immersive Experience—and It’s Been Engineered by the Louvre Itself The museum is partnering with the Grand Palais, which is also planning a permanent space dedicated to immersive digital art as part of a new renovation. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 12, 2022
Art History An Art Historian Bought a Van Dyck ‘Copy’ for Just $90 in 1976. Experts Now Say It’s Probably the Real Deal The work had been hanging in the Christopher Wright's home for 50 years. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 10, 2022
