On View Sadie Barnette Has Made Art From the Files the FBI Kept on Her Father. Now She’s Recreating His Path-Breaking Nightclub The artist continues her excavation of the personal and the political at the Kitchen in New York. By Melissa Smith, Feb 9, 2022
Auctions A Long-Lost Religious Panel Set a $4 Million Auction Record for Northern Renaissance Artist Bernhard Strigel The work was part of an altarpiece in Memmingen and has a companion in the Louvre Abu Dhabi. By Naomi Rea, Feb 7, 2022
NFTs After Pushback From the Picasso Estate, the Artist’s Great-Grandson’s NFT Sale Is… a Bit of a Flop Buyers may be more interested in the NFTs' links to John Legend and Nas than the blue-chip master. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 7, 2022
Art & Tech Can You Recognize These Celebrities Through a Renaissance Filter? This Website Uses A.I. to Leonardo da Vinci-fy Any Photo Take our quiz to see if you can identify the celebrities with 'Da Vinci face.' By Sarah Cascone, Feb 7, 2022
Archaeology & History Archaeologists in Switzerland Have Discovered What Could Be the Last Roman Gladiator Arena Ever Built That would make it the ultimate gladiator arena. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 4, 2022
Archaeology & History How the Beijing Olympics Helped Archaeologists Discover an 800-Year-Old Imperial Palace The Olympic Village had to be moved across the street to preserve the ruins of the imperial palace. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 4, 2022
Museums & Institutions Lost for 40 Years, a Historic Group of Works by Groundbreaking Australian Aboriginal Artists Is Finally Getting a Museum Show The paintings, which turned up in a shipping crate in 2019, now have their audience. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 3, 2022
Law & Politics A Former Employee Is Suing Art Dealer Barbara Gladstone for Allegedly Forcing Her Out of a Job and Trying to Ruin Her Career Laura Higgins says she was forced out of the "toxic" environment after raising labor concerns. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 3, 2022
People Goops! The Stunning ‘Ruth Asawa’ Sculpture in Gwyneth Paltrow’s ‘Architectural Digest’ Home Tour Is Actually a Knockoff The piece is by D'Lisa Creager, a former student of Asawa's daughter. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 3, 2022
Galleries Pace Acquires Los Angeles’s Kayne Griffin, Expanding the Mega-Gallery’s West Coast Presence and Continuing a Wave of Art-Market Consolidation The new outpost joins Pace's Palo Alto gallery in California. By Katya Kazakina, Feb 2, 2022
Auctions The Great-Grandaughter of a Jewish Art Patron Spent Years Tracking Down His Collection. She Just Sold the First Restituted Work A German state art collection restituted the painting to the heirs of Jules Strauss. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 2, 2022
Artnet News Pro Playful Figuration Is All the Rage. Why Is the Work of the Chicago Imagists a Fraction of the Price of the Artists They Inspired? Supply has been spotty over the years, but the influential artist group is beginning to see their influence reflected in the market. By Eileen Kinsella, Jan 31, 2022
Politics One of a Handful of Remaining Tiananmen Square Memorials in Hong Kong Has Been Covered Up as China Cracks Down on the City On Saturday, construction workers arrived without warning and obscured the memorial from view. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 31, 2022
Politics Art Speigelman Denounces Tennessee School District’s Ban of His Graphic Novel ‘Maus’: ‘It Has a Breath of Autocracy and Fascism’ The school board insists the decision was made over eight swear words. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 28, 2022
Auctions Korean Galleries and Auction Houses May Finally Be Coming to an Agreement After a Long-Simmering Turf War South Korean galleries have fought back against the auction houses' aggressive tactics by holding their own closed-door sale. By Eileen Kinsella & Vivienne Chow, Jan 28, 2022
