French Painter Pierre Soulages, Who Dedicated His Career to the Deepest Color Black, Has Died at Age 102
Pierre Soulages, the abstract French painter who for more than 40 years dedicated his work solely to the color black,…
The British Museum Drops the Sackler Name From Its Galleries, Joining a Growing Flood of Institutions Cutting Ties With the Family
London’s British Museum will rename all galleries, rooms, and endowments that currently feature the names of Raymond and Beverly Sackler,…
Workers Rebuilding Notre Dame Have Discovered Previously Unknown Tombs and a Mysterious Sarcophagus Beneath the Cathedral
Archaeologists working to restore Paris’s fire-damaged Notre Dame cathedral have discovered something remarkable: previously unknown tombs hidden beneath the 850-year-old Gothic…
Look Out, Van Gogh! ‘Mona Lisa’ Is Getting Her Own Immersive Experience—and It’s Been Engineered by the Louvre Itself
Two of Paris’s most renowned cultural institutions, the Louvre and the Grand Palais, are teaming up to stage an immersive…
Brice Marden, Richard Serra, and Other Artists Mounted a Private Campaign to Push the Met to Remove the Sackler Name
Last week, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art removed the Sackler family name from seven spaces throughout the institution, marking one of the…
In a Landmark Move, the Metropolitan Museum of Art Has Removed the Sackler Name From Its Walls
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has dropped the Sackler name from its building. The move is perhaps the museum…
Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds Will Face Off as Dueling Art Thieves in the New Heist Flick ‘Red Notice’—Watch the Trailer Here
A blockbuster art heist is set to hit the big screen in Red Notice, a new action film starring Dwayne…
7 Unbelievable and Contentious Takeaways From a New Documentary About ‘Salvator Mundi,’ the $450 Million ‘Lost Leonardo’
On March 5, 2014—less than a week after its founding—Artnet News published a short item based on a New York…
As Part of a $4.5 Billion Oxycontin Settlement, the Sackler Family Has Promised Not to Lend Its Name to Museums for Nine Years
The highly contested Purdue Pharma settlement over the prescription painkiller OxyContin is one step closer to being finalized, as 15…
A Leonardo da Vinci Drawing the Size of a Postage Stamp Sold for $12.2 Million at Christie’s (But It Only Got a Single Bid)
A 20-year-old record for the most expensive drawing by Leonardo da Vinci fell at Christie’s London, where Head of a Bear,…
Airbnb Will Offer Overnight Stays at the First Home Legendary Architect Antoni Gaudí Ever Designed for Just $1
For the first time ever, members of the public will have a chance to spend a night in the first…