It is sad to hear that the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of the world’s greatest museums, is having financial trouble.  Robin Pogrebin’s article brings to light many of the issues facing this great institution … an almost $40 million … More…

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We have been following the Knoedler scandal for a long time and yesterday Glafira Rosales (one of the central figures in the fraud) has received her sentence …  on Tuesday, 31 January a federal judge in New York sentenced her to the … More…

A new exhibition, at Berlin’s Museum Berggruen, pairs masterpieces next to work that has sometimes been dismissed as trash. It forces us to acknowledge our biases, writes Jessica Kiang.  This sounds like an fun and interesting exhibit which runs through … More…

If you are a Picasso fan, I know you will find this story by Alastair Sooke of interest. According to Sooke’s article: A short trip to the ancient Catalan village of Gosol, high in the Pyrenees, was the catalyst for a profound shift … More…

Now here is an artist who could paint! The first ever exhibition for a long-forgotten 17th-century female artist is to be held at the Rubens House in Antwerp in 2018. Michaelina Wautier is probably the first woman who successfully painted works … More…

Shia LaBeouf was taken away by police following altercation at the site of his He Will Not Divide Us art installation, which is planned to run for Trump’s first term. According to the article, he was handcuffed by police on Wednesday … More…