People Anita Hill, Who Stood Up to Clarence Thomas, Joins Board of Rose Art Museum By Brian Boucher, May 13, 2015
Auctions $179 Million Picasso Sets Stratospheric Record at Christie’s $705.9 Million “Looking Forward” Sale The Picasso inspired an 11-minute bidding war. By Brian Boucher, May 11, 2015
Auctions 10 Instances of Auction House Promotional Hyperbole, Ranked Read how the auction catalogues are pimping Rothko and Twombly this week. By Brian Boucher, May 11, 2015
Art World Performance Art Legend Chris Burden Is Dead at 69 He may forever remain best known for the time he had himself shot. By Brian Boucher, May 10, 2015
Analysis Will Twombly, Freud, and Rothko Lead Christie’s to A Billion-Dollar Night? Two sales at Christie's alone are expected to tally a billion dollars. By Brian Boucher, May 8, 2015
Art & Exhibitions See Hellbent Hooker Fundraise this Weekend for Duke Riley’s Havana Biennial Ice-Skating Rink Will Riley's ice-skating rink cool the US-Cuba thaw? By Brian Boucher, May 7, 2015
Analysis Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery Is Target of Smuggling Investigation By Brian Boucher, May 7, 2015
Analysis Mysterious Asian Buyer Causes Sensation at Sotheby’s $368 Million Impressionist Sale The Van Gogh was snatched up by a mysterious Asian buyer. By Brian Boucher, May 5, 2015
Analysis 9 Pricey, Cheap, and Surprising Works at Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Sale Rembrandt Bugatti's "Hamadryas Baboon" will likely be in record territory. By Brian Boucher, May 4, 2015
Art & Exhibitions Whitney Museum Hangs Jackson Pollock Painting the Wrong Way The Pollock catalogue raisonné tells a different story. By Brian Boucher, May 4, 2015
Analysis Is Christie’s Abandoning the Impressionism and Modern Art Market? The house's most recent hire for the struggling department may offer clues. By Brian Boucher, May 4, 2015
Art World Gulf Labor Protest Shuts Down New York Guggenheim Museum Have the protests finally gone too far? By Brian Boucher, May 1, 2015
Law & Politics Artist Katsu Vandalizes Kendall Jenner’s Calvin Klein Billboard With Graffiti Drone By Brian Boucher, May 1, 2015
Art & Exhibitions Jane Farver, Former MIT List Head and Queens Museum Curator, Has Died in Venice Farver shined a light on non-Western artists through major traveling shows. By Brian Boucher, Apr 30, 2015
Art & Exhibitions Jeffrey Deitch Is Curating for Property Developers on Coney Island Boy, is it going to be genuine and gritty. By Brian Boucher, Apr 29, 2015