On View A Marvelous New Exhibition Argues That Verrocchio, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mentor, Deserves Far More Credit Than He Gets The show makes a splendid case for the overlooked master. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 30, 2019
Art World The MFA Houston Just Bought a Long-Lost Delacroix Painting That Popped Up in a Paris Apartment Th Romantic painter made three versions of his the famed scene. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 26, 2019
Art World Want the Sistine Chapel All to Yourself? A Travel Company Is Pricing Private Tours at $5,558 Per Person Here's your chance to see Michelangelo's famed fresco without every tourist in Rome breathing down your neck. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 26, 2019
Auctions An Elderly Woman Discovered She Had Been Storing a Rare Renaissance Painting in Her Kitchen—and It Could Fetch $6 Million at Auction Next Month The 13th-century painting hung over a hot plate in the home of a 90-year-old woman. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 24, 2019
On View See 46 Extraordinary Michelangelo Drawings That Were Missing From the Met’s Blockbuster Show—But Are Now Coming to Cleveland The works come from the collection of Queen Christina of Sweden and are borrowed from the Teylers Museum in the Netherlands. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 23, 2019
On View An Obscure Portrait of St. Jerome, Purchased for $600 at a Small-Town Auction, Is Actually a Rare Anthony van Dyck Painting The painting is the subject of an exhibition at the Albany Institute of History & Art. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 19, 2019
Art World The Amsterdam Museum Drops the Term ‘Golden Age,’ Arguing That It Whitewashes the Inequity of the Period The term doesn’t account for the “poverty, war, forced labor, and human trafficking” that occurred during the era, the museum's curator says. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 13, 2019
Art and Law European Police Are Making Arrests in a String of High-Profile Old Master Forgeries of Cranach, El Greco, and Others An Italian artist has been arrested under suspicion of painting a fake El Greco connected to the Old Master forgery ring. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 13, 2019
Auctions Sotheby’s Shareholders Overwhelmingly Approve the Company’s $3.7 Billion Acquisition by French Media Mogul Patrick Drahi CEO Tad Smith called it an historic moment for the 275-year-old auction house. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 5, 2019
Art World Artificial Intelligence Is Revealing Secrets About How the Ghent Altarpiece Was Made—and Damaged Artificial intelligence is helping researchers decode x-rays of the two-sided panels. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 3, 2019
Art World Dr. Seuss Dreamed Up a Guide to Art History That Was Never Published—Until Now Here's the story of "Dr. Seuss’s Horse Museum" came to be published 28 years after the author's death. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 2, 2019
Art World Michelangelo, Warhol, and Other Famous Artists Wrote Eloquent Letters to Friends and Family. Here Are Some of the Most Revealing Passages "Artists' Letters: Leonardo da Vinci to David Hockney" collects missives ranging from the bizarre to the boring. By Artnet News, Aug 29, 2019
On View After 30 Years, a Stolen Renaissance Masterpiece Returns to Italy With a Show in the Artist’s Hometown Pinturicchio’s missing 'Madonna and Child' has gone on view at the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 23, 2019
Politics As a Nationalist Fervor Takes Hold in Italy, Foreign Museum Directors Could Be on the Way Out Italy began hiring its first foreign museum directors in 2015, but the right-wing government may force them out with counter-reforms. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 23, 2019
Politics See Why One Feminist Artist’s Protest of Old Master Depictions of Women at the Prado Museum Went Instantly Viral Anastasia Bengoechea held up signs to protest sexual stereotyping at the Madrid museum. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 20, 2019
