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Exhibitions

Max Hollein, Newly Minted Boss of the Met Museum, Is Leaving San Francisco With a Parting Gift: A Giant Rubens Show

The exhibition, co-organized with the Art Gallery of Ontario, will be the largest Rubens show to take place in the US in over a decade.

By Taylor Dafoe, May 30, 2018

On View

A Rare Image of One of the Earliest Known Same-Sex Unions Goes on View at the Smithsonian

The cut-out images of Sylvia Drake and Charity Bryant features in "Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now."

By Sarah Cascone, May 30, 2018

Art and Law

US Prosecutors Drop Investigation Into Yves Bouvier After Collector Who Cried Foul Turned Massive Profit on ‘Salvator Mundi’

US investigators opened a fraud probe into the Swiss dealer, but dropped the case when his so-called victim reaped a $270 million reward.

By Eileen Kinsella, May 29, 2018

Art World

A Drunken Museumgoer Attacked the Gruesome, Traumatic Painting Considered to Be Russia’s ‘Mona Lisa’

In what appeared to be a nationalist outburst, the man nearly destroyed Ilya Repin's 1885 painting of Ivan the Terrible.

By Henri Neuendorf, May 29, 2018

On View

Conservators Just Discovered Hidden Details in a Tiepolo Masterpiece—and They’re Golden

Restoring the centuries-old work required years of work from the NGA's conservation team.

By Sarah Cascone, May 29, 2018

Art and Law

Museum Directors’ Association to Impose Sanctions on the Berkshire Museum and La Salle University Art Museum

The Berkshire Museum and La Salle University face sanction from the Association of Art Museum Directors.

By Eileen Kinsella, May 25, 2018

Auctions

Amid Protests, Berkshire Museum’s Deaccession Sales at Sotheby’s Fall Short of Expectations

Norman Rockwell hits its mark, but a $5 million Frederic Church fails to sell.

By Caroline Goldstein & Eileen Kinsella, May 23, 2018

Art World

An Art Dealer Claims He’s Discovered a Previously Unknown Rembrandt. Where’d He Find It? At Christie’s

Bought for $172,000, the portrait could be worth millions of dollars.

By Naomi Rea, May 16, 2018

Art and Law

US Art Dealers May Soon Be Subject to Government Financial Regulation

The art world has been put on high alert with news of new government oversight.

By Eileen Kinsella, May 2, 2018

Galleries

Blocks From the Met Breuer, a New Gallery Show Also Aims to to Steer Younger Viewers to the Old Masters

Colnaghi has joined with Ben Brown Fine Arts to present the historic works side by side with Modern masters during Frieze and TEFAF New York

By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 26, 2018

Art World

Once Filled With Crumbling Masterpieces, a 16th-Century Chapel in Florence Reopens After Painstaking Conservation

The American nonprofit Friends of Florence stepped in to restore the chapel that's home to Renaissance masterpieces.

By Henri Neuendorf, Apr 20, 2018

Art Fairs

Who Shops at Art Cologne? Meet Some of the World-Weary Connoisseurs Who Collect at the Über-German Art Fair

On the preview day of Art Cologne 2018, we stopped a few collectors and other visitors to gather their thoughts on the world's oldest fair.

By Kate Brown, Apr 20, 2018

On View

Is This the Most Important Exhibition of 2018? Take a Look Inside the Louvre’s Massive Delacroix Retrospective

The show includes some of the painter's most famous—and scandalous—works.

By Naomi Rea, Apr 18, 2018

Art World

Do You Think Mona Lisa Is Happy? Then You Probably Are Too, New Research Says

If you see the painting in a bad mood, it might look very different.

By Sarah Cascone, Apr 13, 2018

Art World

Art Industry News: Philadelphia Tells China It’s Sorry an Idiot Broke a Terracotta Warrior’s Thumb + More Must-Read Stories

Plus, France and Saudi Arabia sign a major cultural development deal and Sotheby's brings back fees for online sales.

By artnet News, Apr 10, 2018

Max Hollein, Newly Minted Boss of the Met Museum, Is Leaving San Francisco With a Parting Gift: A Giant Rubens Show

A Rare Image of One of the Earliest Known Same-Sex Unions Goes on View at the Smithsonian

US Prosecutors Drop Investigation Into Yves Bouvier After Collector Who Cried Foul Turned Massive Profit on ‘Salvator Mundi’

A Drunken Museumgoer Attacked the Gruesome, Traumatic Painting Considered to Be Russia’s ‘Mona Lisa’

Conservators Just Discovered Hidden Details in a Tiepolo Masterpiece—and They’re Golden

Museum Directors’ Association to Impose Sanctions on the Berkshire Museum and La Salle University Art Museum

Amid Protests, Berkshire Museum’s Deaccession Sales at Sotheby’s Fall Short of Expectations

An Art Dealer Claims He’s Discovered a Previously Unknown Rembrandt. Where’d He Find It? At Christie’s

US Art Dealers May Soon Be Subject to Government Financial Regulation

Blocks From the Met Breuer, a New Gallery Show Also Aims to to Steer Younger Viewers to the Old Masters

Once Filled With Crumbling Masterpieces, a 16th-Century Chapel in Florence Reopens After Painstaking Conservation

Who Shops at Art Cologne? Meet Some of the World-Weary Connoisseurs Who Collect at the Über-German Art Fair

Is This the Most Important Exhibition of 2018? Take a Look Inside the Louvre’s Massive Delacroix Retrospective

Do You Think Mona Lisa Is Happy? Then You Probably Are Too, New Research Says

Art Industry News: Philadelphia Tells China It’s Sorry an Idiot Broke a Terracotta Warrior’s Thumb + More Must-Read Stories

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