Politics ‘It’s So Evil’: One Year After Supreme Court Approves Trump Travel Ban, Artists and Institutions Struggle to Keep Connections Alive A year after what the ACLU calls “Muslim Ban 3.0” received the Supreme Court’s imprimatur, the art community is still learning to navigate uncharted legal territory. By Brian Boucher, Jul 25, 2019
Art World Collector and High-Society Photographer Jean Pigozzi Is Giving MoMA the Largest Gift of African Art in Its History For some 30 years, the French collector has amassed a ten-thousand-work strong collection. By Brian Boucher, Jul 22, 2019
Analysis Cracking the Millennial Market: How Art Businesses Are Tweaking Their Strategies to Target the Next Generation of Collectors Art dealers and auctioneers are getting creative to tap into the coveted new demographic. By Brian Boucher, Jul 8, 2019
Art World ‘We Shouldn’t Own These Things’: 5 Takeaways From a Landmark Conference on Collecting Land Art The event at the Frick Collection in New York was full of revelations. By Brian Boucher, May 27, 2019
Art World ‘Warren Kanders, You Can’t Hide!’ Protesters March From the Whitney Museum to the Controversial Trustee’s Home Outside of Kanders's townhouse, activists pledged: "We'll be back." By Brian Boucher, May 18, 2019
Auctions De Kooning and KAWS Lend Multi-Generational Firepower to Phillips’s Solid $100 Million Modern and Contemporary Sale The street artist KAWS fared especially well, as two paintings by the neo-Pop artist soared past their estimates. By Brian Boucher, May 16, 2019
Politics ‘It’s a Nightmare’: The Venezuelan Art Community Struggles to Stay Afloat Amid a National Political Upheaval Artists and dealers are trying to make sense of a rapidly escalating crisis. By Brian Boucher, Mar 13, 2019
Art World Left-Wing Congressional Superhero Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Now the Subject of a Brand New Comic Book Her superpowers include viral videos and "giving zero #%&$s." By Brian Boucher, Mar 4, 2019
Art Fairs Here Are 5 Outsider Artists With Fascinating Life Stories to Discover at the Outsider Art Fair There is a lot to see in the 27th edition of the New York fair. By Brian Boucher, Jan 18, 2019
Art World ‘This Is the Project of a More Just World’: Trevor Paglen on Making Art That Shows Alternative Realities The artist talks about his long-standing interests in AI, invisible networks, and government surveillance. By Brian Boucher, Jun 11, 2018
Art World In Zurich, Christo Traces the Arc of His Career, From Empty Storefronts to Mighty Ziggurats The exhibition includes the only remaining works related to the failed wrapping of MoMA in 1968. By Brian Boucher, Apr 26, 2018
Art World ‘They Should Be in Jail’: Artists Accuse Dealers at Los Angeles’s CB1 Gallery of Fraud One artist says Clyde Beswick and Jason Chang run a “Trump style operation.” By Brian Boucher, Apr 17, 2018
Art Fairs ‘Bring the Mountain to Muhammad’: Dallas Makes a Compelling Case for the Enduring Value of the Regional Art Fair A decade on, the Dallas Art Fair is holding its own and looking toward an even bigger future. By Brian Boucher, Apr 13, 2018
Art World Fest for the Eyes: This Year’s Tribeca Film Festival Features a Stolen Banksy, a Melodramatic Picasso, and a Young Mapplethorpe There’s also Jessica Chastain as a Brooklyn artist who traveled west to paint a portrait of Sitting Bull. By Brian Boucher, Apr 11, 2018
Art World What’s the Best Path to a Top Museum Job? We Analyzed the Training of 100 Curators to Find Out There is no one path to success as a curator of contemporary art—but that doesn't prevent many top experts from having strong opinions. By Brian Boucher, Apr 2, 2018
