Graham Bowley

New York, Toronto

Investigative Reporter at The New York Times

Investigative reporter at The New York Times. Author of "No Way Down: Life and Death on K2" Formerly, FT and International Herald Tribune. From Leicester, UK.

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Articles

Head of African American Museum Departs As Trump Targets Smithsonian

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Graham Bowley

At the time of his appointment in 2020, Mr. Young was director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a division of the New York Public Library, and poetry editor at The New Yorker magazine. He began work at the museum in 2021 and during his tenure there, he has continued as poetry editor of The New Yorker. The museum, which opened in 2016, was built on the National Mall to tell the African American story for all Americans.
Smithsonian's Leader's Future Unclear After Trump Executive Order

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Robin Pogrebin |Graham Bowley |Jennifer Schuessler

Mr. Trump's order, called "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History," cited the graphic and two other examples of what it said were ideological affronts by the Smithsonian.
Art Seizures at the Met Caused Concern. His Job Is to Address It.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Graham Bowley |Tom Mashberg

From his office on the top floor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lucian Simmons has a vantage point from which to survey the huge mission he has undertaken. Below him in gallery after gallery are the artworks and artifacts that the museum has collected across its 155 years in business. Formerly, as head of the restitution department at Sotheby's, Simmons confronted questions about the histories of dozens, perhaps hundreds, of works a year that the auction house sought to sell.
Met Museum Returning Ancient Bronze Thought Stolen from Greek Museum

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Graham Bowley

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning to Greece the bronze head of a griffin, the mythological creature, after determining that the artifact from the 7th century B.C. was likely stolen from an archaeological museum in Olympia in the 1930s. The museum said the head, which entered the collection as a gift from a former trustee in 1972, will be turned over to Greece's minister of culture at a ceremony Monday at the Met.
Museum Agrees to Return Prized, Looted Bronze to Turkey

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Tom Mashberg |Graham Bowley

Towering bronzes depicting emperors once graced an ancient shrine in a region of what is now Turkey that was once part of Rome's extended empire. I nstalled between around A.D. 50 and 250 to venerate imperial power, the statues were later buried by earthquakes only to be discovered and quietly sold by local farmers in the 1960s. They ended up in museums and antiquities collections around the world.
Collector Sues David Geffen to Reclaim a Sculpture Worth Millions

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Graham Bowley

An art collector is suing David Geffen for the return of a valuable Giacometti sculpture that the collector says was sold without his knowledge by his art adviser as part of an elaborate fraud.
The search for van Gogh’s lost masterpiece

Dec 29, 2024 | nzherald.co.nz | Michael Forsythe |Graham Bowley |Elisabetta Povoledo

Cast off by the Nazis, but heralded by curators, the artist’s painting of his doctor, made just before van Gogh’s suicide, has not been seen in 34 years. When the hammer fell at Christie’s in Manhattan on May 15, 1990, a Vincent van Gogh painting, Portrait of Dr Gachet, set the record at the time for the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction, going to a Japanese paper magnate for US$82.5 million ($146.5m).
The search for van Gogh’s lost masterpiece

Dec 20, 2024 | smh.com.au | Michael Forsythe |Graham Bowley |Elisabetta Povoledo

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When the hammer fell at Christie’s in Manhattan on May 15, 1990, a Vincent van Gogh painting, Portrait of Dr Gachet, set the record at the time for the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction, going to a Japanese paper magnate for $US82.5 million. Painted in the garden of the artist’s physician in June 1890, it was completed just weeks before van Gogh’s suicide by gunshot.
La bÃºsqueda de la obra maestra perdida de Van Gogh

Dec 20, 2024 | nytimes.com | Michael Forsythe |Graham Bowley |Elisabetta Povoledo

Al menos públicamente. Aunque el mercado del arte prospera gracias al secretismo y protege la privacidad como una cuestión de honor, también emplea a personas cuya misión es recopilar información fiable sobre quién posee qué. Algunos son representantes de casas de subastas, otros asesores de arte o anticuarios que han hecho de un género concreto su nicho especial.
The Search for van Gogh's Lost Masterpiece

Dec 17, 2024 | nytimes.com | Michael Forsythe |Graham Bowley |Elisabetta Povoledo

For months, reporters for The New York Times have sought out the small group of people involved in the 1998 sale and the larger corps of experts who track such purchases. Their effort to find the Gachet - a journey taken over the years by many others - stretched from the auction houses and galleries of New York to a storybook Swiss villa alongside Lake Lugano. Many experts encountered along the way had no clue what had happened to the painting.