Looking to See Some Art Beyond a Fair Booth? Here Are 16 Museum and Gallery Shows to Visit During Art Basel Miami Beach 2021
During Miami Art Week (November 29–December 5), there will be plenty more to see beyond the Miami Beach Convention Center,…
‘Van Gogh’s Life Was Made for a Novelist’: Author Martin Bailey on the Artist’s Mysterious Last Days—and How He Really Died
Many of us know the story about the end of Vincent Van Gogh’s life, and how a mysterious madness ultimately caused…
Editors’ Picks: 14 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From Licensing Lessons for Artists to the Return of Immersive Van Gogh
Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events, both digitally and in-person, in the…
How Much Do You Know About Art Criticism? See If You Can Answer These ‘Jeopardy!’ Questions Dedicated to the Category
Art critics had their moment in the sun on Tuesday night’s Jeopardy! episode, with an entire category in the Double Jeopardy…
Collectors Stampede for Les Lalanne at Sotheby’s Paris, Where a White-Glove Sale of the Couple’s Designs Notched $92 Million
The auction appetite for French designers François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne, collectively known as Les Lalanne, continues to surge. A white-glove…
Depressing New Report Finds That Women Artists Accounted for Just 16 Percent of NFT Sales Over the Past 21 Months
It remains to be seen if the NFT and crypto art trend has legs, but it appears this new sector…
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…
A Cache of Original Works by Muhammad Ali, Who Turned His Hand to Art Outside the Boxing Ring, Is Hitting the Auction Block
Rare original artworks by Muhammad Ali, the boxer known as the G.O.A.T., or “Greatest of All Time,” are heading to the…
The National Gallery’s Prized Peter Paul Rubens Painting Is Actually a Fake, New Artificial Intelligence Testing Has Found
A series of tests using artificial intelligence have found that the Peter Paul Rubens masterpiece Samson and Delilah (ca. 1609/10) at the…
In 1900, This Artist Gazed Into the Future. See How He Imagined the Year 2000 Would Look (Spoiler: It’s Very Inaccurate)
What did artists in turn-of-the-century France imagine life would look like in the year 2000? A series of illustrations by…
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…
The Sistine Chapel (Experience) Is Coming to a City Near You, Letting You See Michelangelo’s Work (Or, Um, Images of It) Up Close
Michelangelo’s famed Sistine Chapel is coming to cities across the U.S. thanks to high-resolution, nearly full-scale reproductions of the artist’s…
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…
Families Living Near Notre Dame Are Suing Paris For Allegedly Downplaying Lead Pollution That Resulted From the 2019 Blaze
Families whose children lived in or attended school in the neighborhood surrounding the Notre Dame cathedral have teamed up with…