Crime Two Sleuths From a Small-Town Historical Society Tracked Down Two Paintings Stolen 50 Years Ago. Now, They’re Going Back on View Sotheby's sold the stolen works at auction in 2005. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 21, 2022
Art Fairs An Old Master Drawing Offered for Just $250 Last Year at a Massachusetts Auction House Will Go on Sale for $1.4 Million at TEFAF Maastricht The original drawing for one of the Netherland's most beloved engravings had been lost since 1888. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 15, 2022
Auctions ‘It Was Just Flabbergasting’: A $321,000 Renaissance Masterwork Was Discovered Hanging (Off-Kilter) Above Nonagenarian’s Bed Proceeds from the surprise hit sale will be used to pay the woman's nursing home bills. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 7, 2022
Crime A Man Broke Into the Dallas Museum of Art and Smashed Ancient Greek Artifacts Because He Was ‘Mad at His Girl’ The damage could be more than $5 million, some experts say. By Eileen Kinsella, Jun 3, 2022
Law The MFA Houston Can Keep a Bellotto Painting That the Heirs of a Jewish Collector Say Is Rightfully Theirs, a Judge Has Ruled The judge dismissed the lawsuit brought by heirs of a German Jewish collector. By Sarah Cascone, May 6, 2022
Auctions In a Surprise Move, New York City Has Eliminated Longstanding Regulations Designed to Boost Transparency in the Auction Industry Some say the change could backfire on the auction sector. By Eileen Kinsella, May 3, 2022
Auctions Christie’s Will Offer Ann and Gordon Getty’s Sterling Collection of Impressionists and Old Masters, Raising a Potential $180 Million Proceeds from the sale will go to the couple's charitable foundation. By Eileen Kinsella, May 3, 2022
Politics Finland Seized $46 Million Worth of Art en Route to Russian Museums, Including a Titian and a Picasso, Enforcing E.U. Sanctions The sanctions prevent the transport of luxury goods, including art. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 6, 2022
Museums The Getty Trust, the Country’s Richest Arts Organization, Has Named Academic Katherine Fleming as Its New Director Fleming comes to the Getty from NYU, where she served as provost for the past six years. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 5, 2022
Art Fairs The Winter Show Has Taken Over the Window Displays at the Old Barneys New York Department Store to Show 5,000 Years of Art The fair is also reviving the store's beloved restaurant, Fred's. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 5, 2022
Market U.K. Officials Hope to Keep $14 Million Bellotto Masterpiece From Leaving the Country With a Temporary Export Ban The painting was first sold at Christie's more than 250 years ago, in 1771. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 5, 2022
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 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 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
