All posts in Authentication

The Enduring Challenges of Authenticating Art

Art Critique 20 March 2020

Giacometti sculpture damaged by cat, deemed ‘Worthless’ by experts, sells for £500,000

Leonidas Kalai 28 August 2019

Long-lost Caravaggio saga ends with a mysterious and sudden sale and not a $171m auction

Leonidas Kalai 25 June 2019

Exhibitions

Louvre ditches Salvator Mundi over authenticity doubts

Salvator Mundi, the world’s most expensive painting, will no longer be part of this year’s highly anticipated Leonardo da Vinci show in Paris after many months of a failed attempt to attribute it to the artist. The painting famously sold for $450 million at Christie’s in New York in 2017 but has been out of […]

Leonidas Kalai 7 June 2019

Must see - Theatre

National Theatre’s Midsummer Night’s Dream leaves a morning haze

Brandon Lorimer 5 July 2020

Art World Roundup: updates on Stonehenge, the Turner Prize, Christie’s auction of Igbo statues, a Parisian Banksy, and how the new Louvre experience

Katherine Keener 3 July 2020

Opinion

Museums need to confront racism

Maria Trujillo 30 June 2020

Marketplace - Deals

Special edition works by Simone Leigh to benefit Color Of Change and the fight against racial injustice

Katherine Keener 29 June 2020

Must see!

National Theatre’s Midsummer Night’s Dream leaves a morning haze

The National Theatre of London brings yet another theatrical classic to screens worldwide through their ongoing National Theatre At Home program. This past week, at-home audiences had the chance to view National Theatre’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, a production of the Shakespeare classic with some modern twists, filmed at the Bridge Theatre. And while always a […]

A collaborative performance work will see $500 in sanitised dollar bills handed out on silver platter in East Hampton

Later this summer, artist Katherine McMahon and musician Ray Angry will bring together continued concerns about COVID-19 and ongoing issues of economic inequality in a performance art piece. The work will debut at Guild Hall in East Hampton, New York once the area has entered Phase 4 of their reopening plan, but even before the […]

Letting up on lockdown: The National Gallery will reopen next week, leading the way for UK museums

While the US will celebrate Independence Day this Saturday, people across the UK will be celebrating, too, for at long last (but not long enough for some), strict lockdown measures will begin to ease. Pubs, restaurants, and barbers will be among those turning the lights on for the first time in since March and some […]

Arthur Jafa: Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death review

Fifteen art institutions will be simultaneously livestreaming ‘Love is the Message, The Message Is Death,’ a 2016 video work by Arthur Jafa, over the course of 48 hours starting June 26. The initiative is spearheaded by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which jointly acquired the work in 2018. […]