David D'Arcy
Remembering Ashton Hawkins, art lawyer, longtime Metropolitan Museum counsel and friend of Andy Warhol
Hawkins, a pioneer in the field of art law, has died at age 84
Glass art about animals in the Chornobyl exclusion zone takes on new edge
Sibylle Peretti’s glass sculptures, on view in New York and Washington, focus on the wildlife around the Ukrainian nuclear plant that has been taken over by the Russian military
At Sundance, new films tackle painful legacies through archaeology, urban design and more
Also featured is a visually stunning documentary about bird rescuers in Delhi and a cinematic essay about the sexual power dynamics of cinema
Mondrian at the Philadelphia Museum of Art is Nazi loot, heirs allege
In 1937 the work, which had belonged to art historian Sophie Küppers, was seized by Nazi authorities and eventually sold to New York collector A. E. Gallatin
Haitian artists show in Miami but worry about home
As order collapses, the country's residents lack food, water and power—but cultural life survives amid the chaos
The top four art documentaries at DOC NYC
The documentary festival includes films about Jesse Krimes, Eadweard Muybridge and the fraught power dynamics of making money from art
JR takes on borders and prisons in new film
The French artist’s special gift is to make subversive images seem not just unthreatening, but irresistible
New Man Ray book brings artist's long-hidden Jewish heritage out of the shadows
A study of Man Ray, best known for his photography but also a self-professed painter, explores his barely acknowledged Jewishness and his relationship with Marcel Duchamp
Disasters sweep across the screen in Nature by Artavazd Peleshian
The first new film in 30 years by the veteran Armenian director, commissioned by the Fondation Cartier, had its premiere at the NY Film Festival this week
Two veteran lawyers from New York's Herrick Feinstein create new firm, Kaye Spiegler—and save on moving fees
The boutique firm will continue to work from the same offices, but wants to take on riskier contingency cases
Through animation and home videos, three films in Toronto try to retrieve a lost Jewish past
The features Charlotte, Where Is Anne Frank, and Three Minutes – A Lengthening give an afterlife to some of the victims of the Holocaust
Hello Kitty, meet Louis Wain: a new film portrays the eccentric life of a cat painter
Benedict Cumberbatch portrays the ill-fated Victorian illustrator who can be thanked—or blamed—for the rise of the feline in popular culture
'A thunderstorm of ash and cloud': Artists remember 11 September
On the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks, artists reflect on how the event has impacted their work
Chuck Close, artist of monumental pictures and a monumental fall, dies at 81
The debate over the artist's place in post-1970 history, quiet since allegations against him were made in 2017, is sure to gather steam
Institutionalising 9/11: The Outsider documents Ground Zero museum’s contentious formation in Facebook premiere
Ahead of the 20th anniversary of the attacks, a new film follows the challenges behind the making of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York
Now 62, but still wielding spray paint, Kenny Scharf is filmed by his daughter
The family portrait documentary follows the highs and lows of the street artist’s life and career
The Lost Leonardo—a solid sceptical documentary—follows the saga of the Salvator Mundi
The documentary film about the world’s most scrutinised painting, by the Danish director Andreas Koefoed, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on Sunday
French heir renounces title to Nazi-looted Pissarro painting found in Oklahoma
The Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep will return this summer to the University of Oklahoma, which will seek a French partner for future exchanges
Trevor Paglen warns about the dangers of Artificial Intelligence in new documentary Unseen Skies
“Ways of seeing are never neutral, images have always required a human to interpret them,” the artist says
Revisiting the Gardner heist: no paintings, no arrests, but mobsters galore in new Netflix series
While the four-part documentary retreads well-worn ground, it reminds viewers why the unsolved crime remains so intriguing
Whimsy and memory on cardboard: Bill Traylor documentary assembles the fragments of an extraordinary life
A new film explores the work of the artist born into slavery who gained recognition in his eighties
After major Klimt restitution by France, another work still vexes Vienna
Apple Tree II, once confused for Roses Under the Trees, was returned to the wrong family 20 years ago, leaving the heirs of its original owner facing huge obstacles to get it back
Photographs taken by Nazi camp prisoners remind us of the horrors of the Holocaust in new documentary at Berlin Film Festival
The virtual programme also included features on Tsarist Russian fashion and robot love in the Pergamon Museum
Remembering Richard Feigen, the high-profile dealer with an outsider's straight-talking outlook on the art industry
New York gallerist railed against auction houses, the inflation of prices and reputations, the industrial expansion of the art market, while still doing great business
Family members fall out over Rembrandt stored in a New Jersey basement
An heir of an early owner claims that family members conspired to have it sold without his knowledge
Nuns and refugees feature in this year’s art films at a pared-down Sundance Festival
From Rebel Hearts, a documentary on Los Angeles artist and activist Sister Mary Corita, to Flee, and animated tale of a young gay man’s flight from Afghanistan
'My Rembrandt' documentary lets you look into the privileged club of Old Master owners
From kissing a portrait of a woman on the lips, to cutting a co-buyer out of a bargain, acquiring a rare work by the Dutch painter does not always bring out the best in people
Can mediation save a sharing settlement over Nazi-looted Pissarro?
A Paris court has ordered Léone-Noëlle Meyer and the University of Oklahoma to return to the negotiating table
Museum of the Bible returns hand-written gospels looted from Greece during the First World War
The Eikosiphoinissa Manuscript 220 was among hundreds of objects taken from the Kosinitza Monastery by Bulgarian separatist troops in 1917
US museums groups raise concerns as settlement deal over Nazi-looted Pissarro heads back to court
The work, returned to the French heiress Léone-Noëlle Meyer in 2016, was meant to go back on display at Oklahoma’s Fred Jones Jr. Museum next year