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
Art World After Several Ill-Fated Attempts, New York’s Frick Collection Unveils New Designs for Its Expansion Will plans for a $160 million expansion succeed this time? By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 4, 2018
Art World A Long-Lost Dutch Painting Worth Millions Turns Up in an Iowa Closet The artwork by Dutch master Otto van Veen was forgotten for almost a century. By Henri Neuendorf, Apr 4, 2018
