BEST

Lizards of Brooklyn – Artist Meriem
Bennani speaks to Artnet News about her viral video series starring two
chilled-out lizards navigating their new reality.

Secrets Revealed – Vermeer’s Girl with
a Pearl Earring had eyelashes too, new research reveals. The
artist apparently opted to paint over the feathered detail in the
work’s finished state.

Kids Coloring Koons – How do kids spend
their time in quarantine? We asked 32 children for their take on
a very conceptual art coloring book, and they
really delivered.

Peter Schjeldahl Opens Up
– The New Yorker art critic spoke to our own Ben Davis on this week’s
episode of the Art Angle podcast.

Sotheby’s Dives Into the Web – The auction
house launched a new digital marketplace for a group of eight
blue-chip art galleries.

LA Gallery Gets Creative – The LA and
Seoul-based gallery Various Small Fires is the first to be featured
in a new Artnet series highlighting new business models being developed in the age of
coronavirus.

Museums Begin to Reopen – In Belgium and
Italy, museums are planning to slowly reopen to
visitors, offering a blueprint for the rest of the world.

Gamers Get Artsy – The latest iteration of
the Nintendo game “Animal Crossing” features a glut of forged masterpieces that
players must avoid buying from a shifty (virtual) dealer.

WORST

Germano Celant Has Died – The Italian
critic, who in the 1960s coined the term Arte Povera to describe
the radically economical art of a group of artists, died from the coronavirus at age 80.

Remembering Artist Zarina – The
Indian-born artist, know for her prints that depicted maps and city
plans, and who focused on issues of displacement, died at age 83.

Hack Attack – Cyber criminals hacked the server of Zaha Hadid Architects,
locking staff out of the network and stealing confidential
information for ransom.

The Feds Are Onto Inigo – Federal
authorities are turning up the heat on disgraced art dealer Inigo
Philbrick, issuing subpoenas to businesses and individuals
who did business with him.

Auction Trouble – Data from the Artnet
Price Database reveals a startling 76 percent decline in total global auction
sales in March compared with March 2019.

Prado in Peril – The Madrid-based museum is
forecasting that it will lose 70 percent of its income due to the
coronavirus.

Van Eyck To Vanish – The Museum of Fine
Arts in Ghent will have to refund preordered tickets to people who
will now not be able to see its blockbuster Van Eyck exhibition,
which ends before the museum reopens.

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