On Wednesday, April 15th, Sotheby’s London hosted their Old Master & Nineteenth-Century Paintings sale. Though hosted entirely online, the auction garnered substantial attention, which has unfortunately become a bit of a rarity in the markets for these works. Of course, … More…

On Tuesday, April 14th, a French man learned he had won a €1 million Picasso painting in a raffle. The 1 Picasso 100 Euros raffle is an event put on by the Picasso Estate in collaboration with a prominent charity. … More…

After close to thirty years of work, art historian Marc Restellini’s monumental catalogue raisonné on Amadeo Modigliani is now set for publication. Restellini is considered one of the art world’s most renowned specialists on Modigliani’s life and work. Since the … More…

The government of Greece may enact new laws concerning art forgery. While most countries, particularly in Europe, address art forgery through general anti-forgery laws, Greece may become one of the few countries to dedicate legislation and state infrastructure specifically to … More…

Mexico’s cultural sector is protesting against an agreement that would move an important Mexican art collection, featuring several works by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, to a cultural center in Spain. Some say the move is temporary, but many are … More…

Pablo Picasso’s masterpiece Guernica is at the center of a cultural fight in Spain after the Reina Sofía Museum refused to loan it to the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao. The regional government of the Basque Country has submitted a petition to … More…

On Sunday, March 29th, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art opened the first-ever retrospective of the Renaissance master Raphael by an American museum. The exhibition, titled Sublime Poetry, was a monumental undertaking that required collaboration with dozens of cultural institutions … More…