Zelenskyy gifted Pope Leo an image of the Madonna and child painted on a panel of wood from an artillery crate.| ARTnews.com
For Ukraine, For Their Freedom and Ours! has accused Russia of the “systematic, widespread, and organized” looting of Ukrainian cultural heritage.| ARTnews.com
The EU has also sanctioned the director of the “Tauric Chersonese” State Museum-Preserve.| ARTnews.com
Tessa Solomon is a staff writer for ARTnews. She joined the publication in spring 2019 as a researcher assisting with the annual Top 200 Collectors list published each fall. She is a graduate of the University of Iowa, with a degree in creative writing and journalism; while living in the Midwest she discovered a hatred for deep-dish pizza. Tessa got her start in journalism after stints reviewing manuscripts for the Minneapolis-based publishing house Graywolf Press and the Brooklyn-based liter...| ARTnews.com
Daniel Cassady is a reporter covering the business practices, money, and machinations of the art world. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Post, Forbes, and The Art Newspaper. He welcomes good conversation and heated debates. You can reach him at dcassady@artnews.com and on Twitter @danielcassady.| ARTnews.com