Museums A Florida Museum Has Fired a Senior Curator for Organizing a Show of Possibly Looted Greek Antiquities The Denver Art Museum canceled plans to host the show. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 20, 2023
Pop Culture ‘We Didn’t Look Homogenized’: The Cure’s Go-To Cover Artist on the Creative Spark Behind the Band’s Most Enduring Album Sleeves Andy Vella walked us through five of his most iconic designs for the band. By Min Chen, Sep 20, 2023
Politics The State Hermitage Museum Teams Up With a Tehran Cultural Heritage Organization as Russia Bolsters Ties With Iran Western museums have largely cut ties with the St. Petersburg institution. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 20, 2023
Books A Belgian Photographer Spent Years Documenting Her Worldly Possessions—All 12,795 Objects. What Gives? Barbara Iweins has photographed every last item in her Brussels home. By Min Chen, Sep 20, 2023
Law The Louvre Has Redoubled Its Efforts to Be Named a Civil Party in the International Antiquities Trafficking Case Against Its Former Director The museum wants to enter a legal gray area wherein it is declared partly a victim, which may help absolve its tarnished reputation. By Devorah Lauter, Sep 20, 2023
Art History A Fanciful History of Fairies in Art, From Renaissance Depictions to Romantic Shakespearean Visions We trace these magical, miniature beings through centuries of art and culture. By Katie White, Sep 20, 2023
Crime A New Documentary Revisits a Knotty, Unresolved Forgery Scandal that Rocked Australia’s Art World The two-part program investigates the suspected forgery of artworks attributed to Brett Whiteley and the ripple effects that followed. By Artnet News, Sep 19, 2023
On View Bwo Gallery Has Opened in Cameroon, Filling a Gap in the Contemporary Art Scene of Central Africa Co-founders Brice Yonkeu and Noelle Mukete-Elhalaby chose the bustling city of Douala for their new space. By Rebecca Anne Proctor, Sep 19, 2023
Archaeology Yea or Neigh? Researchers Once Thought This Ice Age Figurine Depicted A Horse—New Discoveries at the Same Site Tell A Different Story Archaeologists have found several further fragments belonging to the prehistoric sculpture. By Artnet News, Sep 19, 2023
Studio Visit In Her Maine Studio, Anne Buckwalter Paints Playfully Provocative Domestic Scenes, Breaking to Feed Chickens and Pick Blueberries The artist's solo exhibition "Reins on a Rocking Horse" is currently on view at Rachel Uffner in New York. By Katie White, Sep 19, 2023
Law A Court Has Ordered an Artist to Repay a Danish Museum $72,000 for Submitting Two Empty Frames for a Commission Jens Haaning claimed that the empty frames were a new "conceptual" artwork protesting poor pay. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Sep 19, 2023
Law Dealer Guy Wildenstein’s Most Recent Trial for Tax Evasion Has Begun in Paris, With Nearly $1 Billion—and the Family Dynasty—at Stake The case stems from the 2001 death of Guy's famously secretive father, Daniel Wildenstein. By Rachel Corbett, Sep 19, 2023
Reviews The 1930s Have Been Viewed as a Time of Simple-Minded Art. ‘Art for the Millions’ Shows Just How Dazzlingly Complex It Was The Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition shows that meaning of this time period for art was in debate, even as it happened. By Ben Davis, Sep 19, 2023
Shows & Exhibitions Freud, Hockney, Pigeons, and Pubs. Step Inside the Eccentric New London Art Show Curated by Designer Jonathan Anderson "On Foot" at Offer Waterman gallery is an ode to the romance, ribaldry, and pulsing excitement of London, from past to present. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Sep 18, 2023
Reviews The Nasher Museum’s New Art Show Was Curated by ChatGPT. We Asked ChatGPT to Review It The show embraces the playfulness of its conceit but A.I. anxieties still poke through. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 18, 2023