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
Auctions Here Are the 10 Most Expensive Works of Art Sold at Auction in 2021—and Why They Fetched the Prices They Did Plus, who bought and sold them (when we could figure it out). By Artnet News, Dec 29, 2021
Auctions Born Without Arms or Legs, the Victorian Artist Sarah Biffin Painted Beautifully With Her Teeth. Now, She’s Become a Market Star Two years ago, Biffin's auction record was about $3,400. Now it's exploding. By Sarah Cascone, Dec 20, 2021
Art Fairs Art Dealers Are Steaming Mad That TEFAF Will Hold Onto $8,500 in Fees, Even If the Fair Is Cancelled "It's pure and simple swindling," a trade organization said. By Sarah Cascone, Dec 14, 2021
Politics After a Long Political Battle, a Statue of Thomas Jefferson Housed at New York’s City Hall Will Move to a History Museum The work will now be housed at the New-York Historical Society. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 16, 2021
Art History A Dutch Painting, Once Stolen in an Infamous Art Heist, May Actually Be a Previously Unknown Rembrandt Viewers can decide for themselves in an exhibition currently on view in Gotha, Germany. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 3, 2021
Market The Only Ceiling Mural Caravaggio Ever Painted Could Fetch More Than Half a Billion Dollars at Auction—and It Comes With a House The Roman manse has belonged to the same family since 1621. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 26, 2021
Law & Politics The Heirs of a Jewish Collector Are Suing the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, for the Return of a Bellotto Painting Max Emden's heirs claim that the painting was sold under duress. The museum disagrees. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 19, 2021
Art History Jan Van Eyck’s Famed Ghent Altarpiece Got an Assist from His Older Brother Hubert, Researchers Find The finding helps clarify a generations-long mystery about the lesser-known van Eyck sibling, Hubert. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 14, 2021
Artnet News Pro Museums Working to Correct the Record Are Shaking Up the Pale, Male Canon of Old Master Art—and Changing the Market in the Process Institutions are responding to social pressure to highlight historical works by, and portrayals of, people of color. By Brian Boucher, Oct 13, 2021
Auctions ‘We Found It in Bubble Wrap’: A 17th-Century Tiepolo Drawing Has Been Rediscovered in the Attic of a Historic U.K. Manor The forgotten drawing from Weston Hall will be auctioned by Dreweatts in November. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 12, 2021
Auctions Sotheby’s Unveils a $40 Million Botticelli in Hong Kong as Asian Appetite for Old Masters Works Grows Sotheby's has unveiled another Sandro Botticelli work in Hong Kong following an earlier record-breaking sale in January. By Vivienne Chow, Oct 6, 2021
Art & Exhibitions Exhibitors at a Fair in Dubai Have Covered Up the Private Parts of Michelangelo’s ‘David,’ Fearing It Might Offend Visitors The Italian pavilion's organizers insisted the decision wasn’t censorship, but instead a kind of conceptual gesture. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 5, 2021
Museums & Institutions Bug Infestations at Museums Surged During Lockdown. Here’s How They Are Fighting Back to Defend Their Art From Pesky Critters Institutions are reaching for innovative solutions to combat pests. Among them: micro-wasps. By Naomi Rea & Eileen Kinsella, Sep 30, 2021
Crime Robert ‘Bobby’ Gentile, Long Fingered by the FBI as a Suspect in the 1990 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist, Dies at 85 "His passing might make people less inhibited about talking," says the museum's chief investigator. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 23, 2021
