Archaeology Giant Pits Revealed Underneath Stonehenge Show That the Site Was a Special Hunting Ground for Mesolithic People "This was a special place for hunter-gatherer communities thousands of years before the first stones were erected,” researchers say. By Sarah Cascone, May 12, 2022
Science & Tech ‘They Are About Capturing the Process of Merging’: How Artist WangShui Collaborated With A.I. to Make Paintings for the Whitney Biennial The AI-driven piece responds to viewers' presence in the galleries. By Sarah Cascone, May 12, 2022
Law Marianne Boesky Loses Her Legal Battle Against Artist Diana Al-Hadid Over an Artwork They Both Claimed Was Theirs In the ruling, a New York judge said their consignment agreement was not a transfer of ownership from the artist to the dealer. By Eileen Kinsella, May 11, 2022
Studio Visit Peer Into the Studio of L.A. Painter Tahnee Lonsdale, Whose Cat Helps Remind Her That Sometimes It’s Okay to Rest Lonsdale has a show opening this week at Night Gallery in Los Angeles. By Sarah Cascone, May 11, 2022
Politics Barbara Kruger Explains Her Cover for New York Magazine, a Politically Charged Polemic Against the End of Roe v. Wade The image is a callback to one of her most famous works. By Sarah Cascone, May 10, 2022
Events and Parties Editors’ Picks: 14 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From a Moleskine Art Show to a Cocktail for the Women of Surrealism Plus, an annual scavenger hunt returns to the Bronx, and legal experts talk museum deaccessioning. By Sarah Cascone, May 10, 2022
Museums The Guggenheim Museum, Which Long Resisted Calls to Drop the Sackler Name, Has Finally Quietly Removed It The National Gallery in London also removed the name from one of its galleries this weekend. By Sarah Cascone, May 9, 2022
Art Fairs Yu-Wen Wu Asked Google How to Walk From Boston to Taipei. She Spent the Next 10 Years Turning the Directions Into an Incredible Artwork The artist Yu-Wen Wu turned an absurdist set of Google Maps walking directions into a 20-foot artwork in the tradition of Chinese landscape scrolls. By Sarah Cascone, May 6, 2022
Art Fairs Will the Art World Ever Embrace ‘Alien’ Artist H.R. Giger? A Gallery Showing His Sci-Fi Sculptures and Prints at the Independent Fair Hopes So The Swiss artist's dystopian vision has shaped popular culture, but his impact on contemporary art has not been widely recognized. By Sarah Cascone, May 6, 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 Here’s Your Guide to the Best, Most Desirable Artworks for Sale During New York’s $2.6 Billion Spring Auction Marathon Collections from the likes of the Macklowes, the Ammanns, and Anne Bass represent an almost unprecedented caliber of material. By Eileen Kinsella, 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
Auctions Sotheby’s Latest ‘Natively Digital’ Sale, Featuring Old-School Digital Artists, Squeaks by Its Low Estimate to Bring in $2.3 Million The curated sale embraced the history of digital art and included both NFTs and physical works. By Eileen Kinsella, May 2, 2022
Crime The Feds Indict Two Detroit Brothers and a Florida Man in a Long-Running Forgery Scheme Peddling Fake Art and Sports Memorabilia The men hawked works by purportedly by Gertrude Abercrombie, George Ault, and others from 2005 to 2020. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 27, 2022
