Kelly Crow

New York, Texas, Washington, D.C.

Art Market Reporter at The Wall Street Journal

Kelly Crow is a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal covering the wild & woolly art market. (Retweets≠endorsements.) [email protected] #IStandWithEvan

Articles

Bob Ross Finally Gets the Museum Treatment

2 weeks ago | wsj.com | Kelly Crow

The artist who became a pop culture icon on TV by teaching people how to paint hasn’t been taken seriously. His estate wants to change that. Television’s favorite painter, Bob Ross, is finally getting his museum spotlight. A sprawling exhibition of dozens of the artist’s happy little landscapes is expected to open at the Minnetrista Museum & Gardens in Muncie, Ind., later this year or early next.
Exclusive | A Secret Baby and a Nazi Hospital: The Untold Mystery Upending an Artist’s Legacy

1 month ago | wsj.com | Kelly Crow |Victoria Rosselli |Andrew Levinson

JANUARY 1944. No family came to visit the young woman who lay, withering, in the chilly psychiatric hospital on the hilly outskirts of Vienna. Had they peered through the huge iron gates into Steinhof, as the hospital was known, they would have seen neat rows of red-brick buildings encircled by gardens, deceptively serene. Steinhof was designed to be a beacon of modernity in a city known for its psychiatric advances and its famous denizen, Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis.
Après une année difficile, le marché de l’art compte bien se refaire. Voici comment…

Feb 6, 2025 | lopinion.fr | Kelly Crow

L’année dernière, les principales maisons de vente aux enchères du monde ont vu leurs ventes nettement fléchir, les vendeurs circonspects préférant garder par-devers eux leurs trésors les plus précieux. Mais les experts de Sotheby’s ont trouvé au moins une raison de se réjouir : les produits de luxe, qui vont des ossements de dinosaures aux bijoux en passant par les rares modèles de baskets, ont mieux résisté que prévu l’année dernière, ce qui laisse espérer une probable embellie du marché.
Ce tableau déniché dans un vide-grenier est-il un Van Gogh ?

Jan 30, 2025 | lopinion.fr | Kelly Crow

En 1889, Vincent van Gogh se fit interner à sa demande dans un asile du sud de la France, où il passa une année agitée à peindre 150 tableaux, dont des chefs-d’œuvre tels que Iris, Amandiers en fleurs et La Nuit étoilée.
Was That a Real Van Gogh at the Garage Sale?

Jan 29, 2025 | msn.com | Kelly Crow

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Was That a Real Van Gogh at the Garage Sale?

Jan 28, 2025 | wsj.com | Kelly Crow

In 1889, Vincent van Gogh committed himself to a psychiatric asylum in Southern France, where he spent a turbulent year creating roughly 150 paintings, including masterpieces such as “Irises,” “Almond Blossom” and “The Starry Night.” Now, a former curator of ancient art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has teamed up a with a group of conservators, scientists and historians who believe they’ve discovered No. 151—a previously unknown Van Gogh portrait of a fisherman plucked from a Minnesota...
Christie’s Appoints New CEO

Jan 16, 2025 | msn.com | Kelly Crow

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Christie’s Appoints New CEO

Jan 15, 2025 | businessandamerica.com | Kelly Crow

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The Extraordinary Defense of the Getty Museum Against the L.A. Fires

Jan 15, 2025 | mansionglobal.com | Kelly Crow

Under siege by Los Angeles wildfires, the J. Paul Getty Museum is emerging as a near-miraculous beacon of disaster preparedness. Behind the scenes, it’s taking a small army to defend.
ロス山火事、ゲティ美術館が無事なわけ

Jan 15, 2025 | jp.wsj.com | Kelly Crow

Under siege by Los Angeles wildfires, the J. Paul Getty Museum is emerging as a near-miraculous beacon of disaster preparedness. Behind the scenes, it’s taking a small army to defend.