Patricia Kadgien, daughter of an advisor to Gestapo founder Hermann Goering, and her husband were charged with deliberately concealing numerous artworks, including 22 Matisses, which Goering and her father had taken from a Jewish art dealer in Amsterdam. One of those works was spotted in a photo in a real estate listing. - Artnet
The NFT market has crashed and never recovered. In 2022, Christie’s reported $5.9 million in NFT sales, a 96 percent decline from 2021. And in August 2024, one report found that 95 percent of NFTs were effectively “dead,” with the average owner facing a 44.5 percent loss on their investment. - ARTnews
On Tuesday, however, the Metropolitan Police confirmed they are treating the mural as potential “criminal damage.” Should charges follow, the famously anonymous artist could be compelled to reveal his identity in court after more than 25 years of secrecy. - Mediaite
“Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (in Bentonville, Arkansas) will open its major expansion June 6, 2026, and celebrate the largest gift of works to the permanent collection since its founding.” - Axios
“Colleagues in France are preparing for its careful removal before work begins on their new museum, and intricate plans are being made for its journey to London. This expert-led collaboration … will guide every stage, including a full dry run of the journey.” - The Guardian
“Britain’s National Gallery announced Tuesday that it will use a whopping £375 million ($510 million) in donations to open a new wing that, for the first time, will include modern art, … to be constructed on land beside its Trafalgar Square site that is currently occupied by a hotel and offices.” - AP
In the end, matters of “style” are not matters of “taste,” in some shrugging, subjective sense. They are matters of value. Classical minimalism, meant to evoke modest virtue and restrained power, is a good style for a democratic state. Eclectic traditionalism, remade on an elephantine scale, is the style of totalitarianism. - The New Yorker
“It depicts a judge in a traditional wig and black robe hitting a protester lying on the ground, with blood splattering their placard.” A bit too accurate, perhaps? The courts appear to be covering it already. - BBC
Ally Fallon, a 27-year-old from Manchester, won the 2025 John Moores Painting Prize for If You Were Certain, What Would You Do Then? The prize has an OK history: "Past winners include David Hockney, Sarah Pickstone and Rose Wylie.” - BBC
“This feeling of being at the mercy of incomprehensible forces is an old one in art. For 19th-century painters of the sublime like J.M.W. Turner and Caspar David Friedrich, nature was humanity’s foil. … , A.I. fits the bill nicely.” - The New York Times
"Portrait of a Lady belonged to Jacques Goudstikker, a Jewish-Dutch art dealer who fled Amsterdam in mid-May 1940 to escape the Nazis, but died after falling through an open hatch into the hold of the SS Bodegraven, the ship carrying him to the UK.” - The Guardian (UK)
“The biggest question in the room, more relevant than ever in Germany and cities across Europe, is how to create affordable, quality housing.” - The Guardian (UK)
Each of the brief snippets “will end with the words ‘If you hear something, free something,’ which is also the title of this ambitious public art project by the conceptual artist Chloë Bass.” - The New York Times
By 1937, the 16th-century portrait of King Herod’s stepdaughter with the head of John the Baptist was considered “unbearable for refined people,” so a Cologne gallerist separated Salome’s upper half to sell separately and returned the severed-head-on-a-plate to its previous owner. Now the restored bottom section and the top have been reunited. - Artnet
“When I left the Smithsonian, a number of organizations reached out, and they were all different types,” Sajet told The Washington Post, adding that the Milwaukee Art Museum — whose collection contains more than 34,000 works, from antiquities to modern and contemporary art — felt like “a really good fit." - Washington Post
