A Still Life by Sarah Miriam Peale, the First Professional Female Painter in the U.S., Has Set a New Auction Record for the Artist

Auctions

A Still Life by Sarah Miriam Peale, the First Professional Female Painter in the U.S., Has Set a New Auction Record for the Artist

The 19th-century painter gets some long-overdue market love.

By Sarah Cascone, Jan 24, 2023

Law

An Evicted Princess Is Refusing to Vacate a Roman Villa That’s Home to Caravaggio’s Only Ceiling Mural

Princess Rita plans to appeal the 60-day eviction notice.

By Sarah Cascone, Jan 23, 2023

Auctions

These Charming Floral Paintings Are by Queen Victoria—and Could Sell for $24,000 at Auction

A letterbox owned by the monarch is included in the sale.

By Sarah Cascone, Jan 19, 2023

Museums

Frick Director Ian Wardropper on How the Museum’s Temporary Move to a Modern Building Sparked a Rethink of Its Iconic Old Master Collection

And what the museum is looking forward to when it returns to the Frick Mansion on 70th Street.

By Eileen Kinsella, Jan 12, 2023

Museums

The Squirrel With the Pearl Earring? While the Famed Vermeer Is on Tour, Its Museum Is Asking the Public for New Versions to Hang in Its Place

This is your chance to have your art featured among the Dutch Golden Age paintings in The Hague museum's collection.

By Sarah Cascone, Jan 12, 2023

Museums

The Frick Just Added Its First Renaissance Portrait of a Woman to Its Storied Collection of Old Masters

The painting was the star of the museum's 2019 Giovanni Battista Moroni solo show.

By Sarah Cascone, Jan 9, 2023

Art World

What I Buy and Why: Hispanic Society Director Guillaume Kientz on the ‘Nerdy’ Purchase He’s Proud Of and Which Young Artist’s Work He Is Eyeing

The New York museum chief shares his art-filled Washington Heights home.

By Eileen Kinsella, Jan 9, 2023

Law

Russian Billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev’s Secret Backing of Some of Hollywood’s Biggest Movies Has Been Revealed in a High-Stakes Lawsuit

A firm Rybolovlev silently backed is behind blockbusters such as 'Top Gun: Maverick' and 'Mission: Impossible 7.'

By Eileen Kinsella, Jan 5, 2023

Art World

Venice Successfully Deployed a Very Low-Tech Measure to Protect Saint Mark’s Basilica From High Tide: Glass Barriers

Saint Mark’s Basilica stayed nice and drying during flooding earlier this month.

By Sarah Cascone, Dec 22, 2022

Market

Is This an Early Rembrandt? A Collector and Art Sleuth Believes He Has Found a Lost Work by the Dutch Master

Cliff Schorer, a co-owner of Agnews gallery, determined that an art historian had smuggled the painting out of Europe ahead of the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands.

By Sarah Cascone, Dec 20, 2022

Auctions

Christie’s Generated $8.4 Billion in Global Art Sales for 2022, Marking Its Best Year Yet

The Paul Allen collection added a whopping $1.6 billion to its bottom line.

By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 19, 2022

Art World

A Former Museum President Tracked Down a Stolen Painting Using an Image Printed on a Decorative Throw Pillow

Hendrick Avercamp's 'Winter Landscape' in 1978 was taken from a Worcester couple's home in 1978. It could soon return to Massachusetts.

By Sarah Cascone, Dec 15, 2022

Auctions

Sotheby’s Has Brokered $6.4 Billion in Sales So Far in 2022, Down 7 Percent on Last Year’s Total

Stellar single-owner collections and luxury goods help boost the bottom line.

By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 14, 2022

Shows & Exhibitions

‘It’s My Damaged Rembrandt’: New Book Asserts a Downgraded Portrait of the Dutch Master Is the Real Deal

Expert Gary Schwartz hopes the book convinces scholars that "Rembrandt in a Red Beret," now on view in The Hague, is a self-portrait and not a work by a pupil.

By Sarah Cascone, Dec 13, 2022

Museums

Before the Notorious Art Heist Eclipsed Her, Isabella Stewart Gardner Made Headlines as ‘America’s Most Fascinating Widow.’ Here’s Why

A new biography reveals the unconventional woman behind the famed Boston museum.

By Sarah Cascone, Nov 24, 2022