On View A Marvelous New Exhibition Argues That Verrocchio, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mentor, Deserves Far More Credit Than He Gets The show makes a splendid case for the overlooked master. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 30, 2019
Analysis How Scholars and Curators Helped Create an International Art Market for Pioneering American Modernist Marsden Hartley The market for the artist's work, once confined to the US, has become much more widespread. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 30, 2019
Auctions Auction Blotter: Julie Curtiss Shocks, Ed Ruscha Sizzles, and KAWS Keeps On Keeping On in the New York Day Sales By Nate Freeman, Sep 27, 2019
Art World Collector Jorge Perez Already Has His Name on a Big Miami Museum. Now He’s Opening a Museum of His Own It's one of many private museums in the city. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 27, 2019
On View The Getty Has Acquired 35 of the Late Artist Laura Aguilar’s Powerful Photos of Marginalized People and Her Own Body—See Highlights Here A selection of the newly acquired photographs will be included in a show at the Los Angeles museum this December. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 27, 2019
Art Guides An Art Lover’s Guide to London: 5 Spots to Visit for an Offbeat Tour of British Art History We select five must-see spots from a new book on London's art scene by critic and artnet News contributor Hettie Judah. By Javier Pes, Sep 27, 2019
Politics ‘We’re All Breathing the Same Air’: How Jeppe Hein’s Participatory Art Project United Schoolchildren and Heads of State During Climate Week The artist sees the piece as a way to encourage communication and break down barriers. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 26, 2019
Exhibitions A High-Tech Museum Show in San Francisco Will Tackle Algorithmic Bias and the Low-Wage AI Economy—Just a Stone’s Throw From Silicon Valley "Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI" opens at the de Young Museum in February. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 26, 2019
Art World The MFA Houston Just Bought a Long-Lost Delacroix Painting That Popped Up in a Paris Apartment Th Romantic painter made three versions of his the famed scene. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 26, 2019
Art World Want the Sistine Chapel All to Yourself? A Travel Company Is Pricing Private Tours at $5,558 Per Person Here's your chance to see Michelangelo's famed fresco without every tourist in Rome breathing down your neck. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 26, 2019
Art and Law Last Year the Met Spent $4 Million on a Golden Sarcophagus. It Turned Out to Be Looted. Now They Had to Send It Back The return coincides with a new interview with Max Hollein in which the Met director reveals his relatively centrist views on restitution. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 26, 2019
Auctions Banksy Can Insult Collectors All He Wants—It Won’t Stop Them From Buying, His Sold-Out $1.4 Million Christie’s Online Auction Proves A sarcastically titled sale of Banksy works drew eager buyers who didn't seem to mind the artist calling them "morons." By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 25, 2019
On View Did Forensic Architecture Prove That Police Unlawfully Killed a Man? The Collective’s New Work Breaks Down a Tragedy, Frame by Frame The project investigates the case of Harith Augustus. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 25, 2019
People Artists Cameron Rowland, Mel Chin, and Jeffrey Gibson Are Among the 2019 MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant Winners The winners will receive $625,000 in unrestricted grant money, distributed over five years. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 25, 2019
People Famed Writer Susan Sontag Had a Brief Affair With Jasper Johns—and It Ended When He Left Her at a New Year’s Eve Party The affair, according to a new biography of Sontag by Benjamin Moser, started in 1965. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 25, 2019
