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
Crime A Brazilian Collector Is Suing to Seize a Van Gogh Painting From the Detroit Institute of Arts, Claiming He Owns (But Lost) the Work Gustavo Soter has a 2017 bill of sale for the oil painting "Une Liseuse De Romans." He claims he hasn't seen it since. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 11, 2023
Law & Politics An Artist Suing Meow Wolf for $1 Million Is on the Hook to Pay the Experiential Art Giant’s Legal Fees Lauren Adele Oliver will have to cover Meow Wolf's legal costs for two motions filed regarding her mass deletion of emails. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 11, 2023
Pop Culture OxyContin Heiress Madeleine Sackler’s Forthcoming Film, About Healing From Pain and Grief, Sparked Objections From Some of Its Crew Sackler has denied that the film parallels her own life. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 10, 2023
Galleries Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova Gets Her First Solo Show at Jeffrey Deitch, Where Attendees Are Instructed to Wear Balaclavas The activist artist continues the collective’s protest against Russia’s authoritarian regime. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 10, 2023
Studio Visit Artist Anton Van Dalen Takes Us Inside His East Village Studio, Where He Rears Pigeons and Paints Them Into His Work The artist has lived in his East Village home and studio since 1968. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 10, 2023
Auctions Who Were the Best-Selling Artists at Auction in 2022? See the Top 20 Names and Find Out What They Reveal About the Market The three highest-ranking artists each brought in over $500 million in sales last year. By Eileen Kinsella, Jan 9, 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
Galleries Sukanya Rajaratnam, a Change-Making Dealer Who Brought Overlooked Artists to Mnuchin Gallery, Is Departing After 15 Years The veteran dealer brought previously marginalized black and female artists into the gallery's blue-chip fold. By Katya Kazakina, Jan 8, 2023
Crime The U.S. Has Returned Its First Looted Antiquity to the Palestinian Authority: A Disgraced Collector’s Iron-Age Spoon The Manhattan D.A. seized the stolen artifact from Michael Steinhardt. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 6, 2023
Books More Than a Muse: A New Biography Casts Kiki de Montparnasse as a Leader in the Heady Art Swirl of 1920s Paris You might not know much about Kiki de Montparnasse, but a new book paints her as an influential figure of the Parisian avant-garde. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 5, 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
The Art Detective The High-Flying Basquiat Market Fell Off a Cliff Last Year. Why? The artist's auction market plummeted 50 percent in 2022, a dizzying fall from its much-ballyhooed peak of a year prior. By Katya Kazakina, Jan 5, 2023
Crime The Man Who Allegedly Stabbed Two MoMA Staffers Has Been Extradited to New York and Charged With Assault Police arrested Gary Cabana three days after the shocking attack. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 4, 2023
