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Lost Claudel Sculpture Sold In Paris For €3.1 Million
A bronze statue of a nude man being led away from a young woman by an older woman.

Lost Claudel Sculpture Sold In Paris For €3.1 Million

A bronze sculpture by Camille Claudel thought to have been lost for over a century sold in Paris for €3.1 million. Recently, I feel like the art world has been reanalyzing the work of great female artists, especially those who, … More…

Cleveland Museum Agrees To Repatriate
A headless ancient Roman bronze statue of a man in a toga formerly held by the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Cleveland Museum Agrees To Repatriate

The Cleveland Museum of Art is sending a Roman bronze statue back to Turkey after finally acknowledging the work was likely looted. In September 2023, I first wrote about how the Cleveland Museum of Art became the target of the … More…

Institutions Lean Into AI, Despite Artists’ Objections
A hologram of a human brain

Institutions Lean Into AI, Despite Artists’ Objections

The Getty Museum has acquired its very first AI-generated photograph for its collection. This comes despite both ethical and legal concerns about the production and curation of AI-generated works of art. Cristian en el Amor de Calle is an AI-generated … More…

Friedrich’s Soul Of Nature At The Met
A painting of a man with his back to the viewer climbing a rock looking out over a fog-covered landscape.

Friedrich’s Soul Of Nature At The Met

On Saturday, February 8th, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York opened a new exhibition focusing on the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich. Despite Friedrich’s importance and widespread popularity, the exhibition, entitled The Soul of Nature, is the … More…

Sotheby’s NY Master Works On Paper
A drawing of ships on the water, while an overturned rowboat lays on the beach.

Sotheby’s NY Master Works On Paper

The results of Classic Week at the New York auction houses have been somewhat mixed. While the main Old Master and nineteenth-century paintings sales at both Christie’s and Sotheby’s were somewhat disappointing, the same cannot be said for the Sotheby’s … More…

Christie’s NY Old Master & British Drawings
A chalk drawing of a woman in profile with an elaborate headdress.

Christie’s NY Old Master & British Drawings

The Old Master and British Drawings sale at Christie’s kicked off the Classic Week of nineteenth-century and Old Master sales being held at the New York auction houses starting on February 4th. This sale was highly anticipated mostly because of … More…

Coming Soon: A Brand New Louvre
Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa: a portrait of a woman with dark hair and clothing against a landscape background including trees, hills, a river, and a stone bridge.

Coming Soon: A Brand New Louvre

French President Emmanuel Macron announced that the Louvre will undergo extensive renovations, including placing the Mona Lisa in its own gallery, for which visitors will be charged extra. The Louvre is home to roughly half a million works of art … More…

Forgotten American Mural Unveiled In Mexico
A black-and-white photograph of Philip Guston

Forgotten American Mural Unveiled In Mexico

A 1934 mural by Philip Guston and Reuben Kadish at a regional museum in Mexico has been fully restored. The Struggle Against Terrorism is a 1000-square-foot mural the two young artists created for the museum. Both the mural itself and … More…

Rick Hendrick And The First 2025 Corvette ZR1 Set A New Record
Black 2025 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1

Rick Hendrick And The First 2025 Corvette ZR1 Set A New Record

Rick Hendrick, a man whose name is synonymous with automotive racing, owns Hendrick Motorsports, an American professional car racing organization founded in 1984. He has built a dynasty in NASCAR, with over 250 wins and 14 Cup Series championships to … More…

Garage Sale Van Gogh: Real Or Not?
A portrait of a fisherman

Garage Sale Van Gogh: Real Or Not?

Some are convinced that an odd-looking painting found at a garage sale in Minnesota might be a lost work by Vincent van Gogh worth $15 million. Around 2016, an individual bought a painting at a Minnesota garage sale for $50. … More…

Sotheby’s Art Of The Americas
A painting of orchids and hummingbirds against a jungle background.

Sotheby’s Art Of The Americas

The New York auction houses recently concluded a week of American art sales, including the American Sublime sale at Christie’s. Sotheby’s also had its own auction the following day called Art of the Americas. The star of the sale, used … More…

NPG Nepotism?
Stone exterior facade

NPG Nepotism?

London’s National Portrait Gallery is coming under fire after some realized that the photographer behind a current exhibition is a donor who significantly contributed to the museum’s recent renovations. Zoë Law is a London-based photographic portraitist who recently opened a … More…

The American Sublime At Christie’s, New York
A New England landscape painting showing a fisherman at a lake in the foreground and a mountain in the background.

The American Sublime At Christie’s, New York

The 2025 auction season is now starting to kick off. While there have been a smattering of assorted sales earlier in the month, the first sale in the section of the art market relevant to Rehs Galleries took place on … More…

Aaron de Groft, Disgraced Former OMA Curator, Dies At 59
The outside of the Orlando Museum of Art (OMA)

Aaron de Groft, Disgraced Former OMA Curator, Dies At 59

Aaron de Groft, the former museum curator at the center of the Orlando Basquiats scandal, died at age 59. I have written extensively about the scandal of which De Groft was at the center. On June 24, 2022, the FBI … More…

Hockney Retrospective at the Fondation Louis Vuitton
The Fondation Louis Vuitton's address plaque, located at 8 Avenue du Mahatma Gandhi

Hockney Retrospective at the Fondation Louis Vuitton

Later this year, the prestigious Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris will host a new retrospective exhibition dedicated to the great British artist David Hockney. David Hockney got his first retrospective in 1970 and has been the subject of many more … More…

Thou Shalt Be Auctioned
the ten Commandments from the byzantine ara carved in white stone

Thou Shalt Be Auctioned

Recently, the Yavne Tablet, a remarkable relic from the late Roman-Byzantine era (circa 300–800 CE), was auctioned off. It is the oldest surviving complete stone inscription of the Ten Commandments. The tablet features twenty lines of Paleo-Hebrew text carved into … More…