News
Unique Works From the WPA Sell at Auction
The Swann Galleries auction provided insight into some of the varied Works Progress Association projects sponsored by the US between 1935 and 1943.
Cassie Packard
Art
The Last of 14 Definitively Nazi-Looted Artworks in the Gurlitt Trove Is Restituted
The remaining work was returned by the estate of Cornelius Gurlitt, son of an art dealer who built a private collection in the process of helping the Nazis sell stolen art.
Guide
Your Concise New York Art Guide for February 2021
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month.
Interview
Dan Hicks on the Benin Bronzes and Ultraviolence of World Culture Museums
"The Brutish Museums" considers the histories of cruelty that western museums perpetuate when they do not endeavor to return looted colonial artifacts.
News
A Fanciful Collection of Over 4,000 Rare Surrealist Books and Periodicals
Collectors Laurens Vancrevel and Frida de Jong, who have been building a collection of international Surrealist literature since the 1960s, donated the trove to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.
Art
Marsha Pels’s Sculptures Offer Little Solace
Pels’s work evokes a blinking unease, posing questions about the nature of power in the arenas of sex, war, and religion.
News
Holy Bidding, Batman! Bruce Wayne and Tintin Break Comic Art Auction Records
A pristine copy of "Batman No. 1" from 1940 is now the most expensive Batman title ever sold, and a rejected 1936 Tintin cover illustration became the most expensive work of comic book art.
News
A Collection of Experimental Kinetic Art, Featuring Marcel Duchamp and Jenny Holzer
The Butler Institute of American Art received 98 works from the kinetic art collection of developer David Bermant, who acquired work that explored movement through the use of video, electronics, robotics, holography, magnetism, and light.
News
The National Gallery of Art Acquires Quilts by the Women of Gee’s Bend
The DC institution has expanded its holdings of work by Black artists from the American South with a recent acquisition from Souls Grown Deep.
News
In Surprise Ruling, Kandinsky Painting Will Not Be Returned to Jewish Collector Heirs
The Amsterdam District Court rejected claims from the heirs of a Jewish art collector that a 1909 painting by Kandinsky in Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum was sold under Nazi-era duress and should be returned.
News
The Baltimore Museum of Art Concludes a Year of Collecting Work by Only Women Artists
The museum announced 33 recent acquisitions by artists including Laura Aguilar, Loïs Mailou Jones, and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.
News
Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Personal Collection Heads to Auction
Sotheby’s is auctioning artworks that were once in the pair’s home, including kitschy cookie jars that Andy Warhol collected.