Auctions Park West, the Gallery Best Known for Selling Art on Cruise Ships, Wants to Turn the Tide After Years of Legal Battles. Will a New York Outpost Help? The Manhattan gallery is the fourth brick-and-mortar space the company has opened in recent years. By Eileen Kinsella, Jan 31, 2023
Auctions New Collectors and Museum Interest Help Drive New York’s Old Master Auctions to $150 Million—a High Not Seen in Years New auction records were set for Francisco Goya, Peter Paul Rubens, and Jean-Baptiste Oudry, among others. By Eileen Kinsella, Jan 27, 2023
Art & Tech Researchers Used Facial Recognition Technology to Identify a Long-Lost Painting by Raphael A new study concludes that the previously unattributed de Brécy Tondo is nearly certainly a work by the Italian Old Master. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 24, 2023
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 & Politics 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 18, 2023
Museums & Institutions 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 & Institutions 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 & Institutions 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 8, 2023
Law & Politics 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
