Annah Otis
When the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) opened its David Geffen Galleries on April 19, visitors were met with works from vastly different cultures and centuries hung together without the…
A quiet ceremony at the Canadian Conservation Institute in Ottawa marked a turning point in international cultural property law in recent weeks.
From the moment Pablo Picasso finished painting Guernica in 1937 for the World’s Fair as a response to the German and Italian bombing of Gernika, the over-25-foot canvas has…
In the late hours of March 22, four thieves broke through the front door of the Magnani-Rocca Foundation, a private museum housed in a Neoclassical villa outside Parma in Italy.
At Bowery on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where the New Museum has stood since 2007, a 13-foot aluminum sculpture of two embracing figures now greets visitors before they step inside…
A monumental 1983 Jean-Michel Basquiat canvas, Museum Security (Broadway Meltdown), heads to Sotheby's Contemporary Evening Auction this May with an estimate of $45 million.
In early March, the Rijksmuseum announced that a small painting depicting the biblical figure of Zacharias had been conclusively reattributed to Rembrandt van Rijn after a two-year…
One year after the Palisades Fire tore through Los Angeles, Frieze closed its seventh annual fair in the City of Angels with genuine optimism. More than 32,000 visitors from over 45 countries…
The Louvre has weathered both revolutions and occupations over the centuries. Yet, the past few months have exposed a different kind of vulnerability in its leaking pipes, aging cameras, and…
The White House’s recent push to reshape President Donald Trump’s image at the National Portrait Gallery raises questions about who gets to write history and who gets to erase it. A series of…
The Persian Gulf is witnessing unprecedented art fair expansions as major players like Art Basel and Frieze compete for dominance outside slower American and European markets. Despite the Middle…
In late January, the Smithsonian announced that it would return a Shiva Nataraja statue and two other Chola Dynasty bronzes to India from the National Museum of Asian Art under a “shared…
Los Angeles has long lived in the shadow of New York’s art world dominance, but with the opening of three major institutions this year, the city is strategically repositioning itself to become an…
From New York and Detroit to London and Basel, leading museums are staging major exhibitions devoted to canonical modernist masters at a moment when our world is as uncertain and tension-wrought as…
Before ringing in 2026, the US Senate unanimously approved the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act of 2025, which extends and expands the original 2016 legislation allowing claims for…
