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Adam Schrader

Adam Schrader is the founder of Urgent Matter and a longtime crime and politics reporter. His work has appeared in Artnet News, The Art Newspaper, the New York Post, the New York Daily News, and United Press International.

Location New York
Number of Articles 145
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Adam Schrader's Work 145 Articles
Shows and Exhibitions   -   Oct 28, 2025 Chrysler Museum's Susan Watkins show explores how women forged art careers
Two women sit at a sunlit table having tea beside an open doorway, with one woman leaning on her hand and listening as the other smiles and holds a teacup.

A new exhibition reveals how Susan Watkins harnessed discipline and self-promotion as survival tools in the early 20th-century art world.

by Adam Schrader
Law and Crime   -   Oct 27, 2025 Tracking art lawsuits and legal disputes: The Urgent Matter database
A bird flies past the scales of Lady Justice atop a courthouse dome

A running record of lawsuits shaping the art world, maintained by Urgent Matter.

by Adam Schrader
Government and Cultural Heritage   -   Oct 27, 2025 New York nonprofit launching digital archive to guard Latino stories from ‘erasure’
Screenshot of the Historias NYC digital map interface showing Lower Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn, with colored dots marking cultural sites related to Latino and immigrant histories

The digital archive from the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center seeks to collect and connect Latino histories across New York City.

by Adam Schrader
Government and Cultural Heritage   -   Oct 26, 2025 Russian museum admits Pyongyang’s involvement in Ukraine war
Kim Jong Un pictured shoveling dirt

Russia and North Korea are using art to acknowledge that North Korean troops fought in the Ukraine war.

by Adam Schrader
Law and Crime   -   Oct 26, 2025 Brazilian police raid Almeida & Dale gallery
Badge of the São Paulo Civil Police featuring a gold shield with laurel branches, a red and black striped emblem, and the words “Polícia Civil SP” on a black background.

The raid stemmed from a civil dispute rooted in the 2006 sale of three works by Alfredo Volpi brokered by gallery cofounder Carlos Dale.

by Adam Schrader
Labor and Capital   -   Oct 26, 2025 Canada’s Penticton Art Gallery sued by former curator
Canada’s Penticton Art Gallery sued by former curator

Multiple members of the board of directors have also resigned, including board president Claude Roberto.

by Adam Schrader
Labor and Capital   -   Oct 25, 2025 Baltimore Museum of Art receives record $10M gift
A young boy holds up two thumbs-up as he smiles in front of paintings in a gallery of the Baltimore Museum of Art

The $10 million donation represents about 6% of the museum’s endowment portfolio and more than four times its annual spending on education programs.

by Adam Schrader
Law and Crime   -   Oct 24, 2025 Picasso painting that went missing in Spain recovered by police
Picasso painting that went missing in Spain recovered by police

Police said the painting may have never made it onto the transport truck to take it from Madrid to Granada.

by Adam Schrader
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