Auctions Sotheby’s Unveils a $40 Million Botticelli in Hong Kong as Asian Appetite for Old Masters Works Grows Sotheby's has unveiled another Sandro Botticelli work in Hong Kong following an earlier record-breaking sale in January. By Vivienne Chow, Oct 6, 2021
Shows & Exhibitions Exhibitors at a Fair in Dubai Have Covered Up the Private Parts of Michelangelo’s ‘David,’ Fearing It Might Offend Visitors The Italian pavilion's organizers insisted the decision wasn’t censorship, but instead a kind of conceptual gesture. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 5, 2021
Museums Bug Infestations at Museums Surged During Lockdown. Here’s How They Are Fighting Back to Defend Their Art From Pesky Critters Institutions are reaching for innovative solutions to combat pests. Among them: micro-wasps. By Naomi Rea & Eileen Kinsella, Sep 30, 2021
Crime Robert ‘Bobby’ Gentile, Long Fingered by the FBI as a Suspect in the 1990 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist, Dies at 85 "His passing might make people less inhibited about talking," says the museum's chief investigator. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 23, 2021
Law Yves Bouvier Declares ‘Complete Victory’ After a Prosecutor Dismissed Russian Billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev’s Charges Against Him Rybolovlev said he plans to appeal the Swiss prosecutor's decision to drop criminal charges. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 17, 2021
Art World An Art History Professor Spotted an Unusual Painting at a Local Church. Now, It Is Being Hailed as a Major Italian Baroque Discovery The religious painting by Cesare Dandini is now on loan to Iona College. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 15, 2021
Auctions More Than 50 Works From the Collection of Late, Keen-Eyed Old Master Dealer Richard Feigen Could Fetch $17 Million at Auction An eclectic mix of works assembled by the dealer is going to Sotheby's. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 13, 2021
Art History Michelangelo Is a Giant of Art History. But as a Person, He May Have Actually Been Quite Short After studying the Renaissance artist’s shoes, researchers in Italy were able to estimate his height. By Artnet News, Sep 3, 2021
Museums Conservators at the Met Have Discovered a Hidden Composition Under Jacques Louis David’s Portrait of a Famed Chemist David’s original painting of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and his wife depicted the couple as self-indulged nobles rather than liberal leaders of science. By Artnet News, Sep 1, 2021
Shows & Exhibitions Titian’s ‘Poesie’ Paintings Transformed Western Art. One U.S. Museum Is Showing Them All Together—and It Will Never Happen Again Bringing the show together was a herculean task, that involved literally rewriting laws. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 26, 2021
Law Restitution Experts Blast Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts for Refusing to Return a Painting Once Purchased for Hitler’s Museum The Monuments Men Foundation is squaring off against the MFAH in the court of public opinion. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 18, 2021
Archaeology Machu Picchu Is Even Older Than Previously Thought, New Radiocarbon Dating Shows The colonial records kept by the Spanish appear to have been wrong. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 5, 2021
Analysis Houston Built Big in 2020—But Shenzhen Is the Future: 7 Takeaways From a New Report on Global Cultural Trends AEA Consulting's Cultural Infrastructure Index aims to give a snapshot of the present and future of museum building. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 28, 2021
Art World Try These 10 Tasty Cocktail Recipes That Frick Collection Curators Mixed for the Museum’s Hit Lockdown Video Series The series finale of "Cocktails With a Curator," featuring a Black Manhattan, aired last Friday. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 23, 2021
Art History While Restoring a Mysterious 16th-Century Painting, Experts Found That Someone Turned Its Subject’s Frown Literally Upside Down From the department of "Don't Tell Women to Smile." By Artnet News, Jul 16, 2021
