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The 10 Art News Stories of 2014 You Need to Know - artnet News

The 10 Art News Stories of 2014 You Need to Know - artnet News: Looking back on some of the most popular stories from our first year in business (since March, that is), some of the stories that turned up surprised us, while the appearance of others at the top of the list heartened us. In an effort to share some of these, we began with the top 50 stories that drove the most traffic on the artnet News website all year long. From there, we sifted the pickings down to our top 10�favorites. To our minds, these are the stories that most had people talking. Thus, without further ado, here are the top 10�stories from artnet News in 2014:

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