Art World Damien Hirst Is Making NFTs Now Too and Says It’s the ‘Most Exciting’ Work He’s Made to Date As a group, Hirst refers to the works as “The Currency.” (Subtle!) By Brian Boucher, Mar 15, 2021
Art World A Newly Discovered Ancient Grave Site in Spain Suggests That Women May Have Been Bronze-Age Political Rulers Scholars agree that assumptions about Bronze-Age patriarchal societies may be due for a rethink. By Brian Boucher, Mar 12, 2021
Politics A Group of Artists Has Withdrawn From an MCA Chicago Exhibition to Protest Layoffs and Alleged Unequal Working Conditions The artists are demanding a public apology to laid-off staffers of color. By Brian Boucher, Mar 12, 2021
Politics An Exhibition Dedicated to a Legendary Asian American Art Collective Has Been Cancelled After a Majority of the Artists Withdrew The artists oppose the museum’s acceptance of $35 million in New York City funds, which they say suggests complicity in the building of a new jail. By Brian Boucher, Mar 11, 2021
On View ‘There Are Monsters on All Sides’: Celeste Dupuy-Spencer on Why Her Epic Painting of the Capitol Riot Is Not a Simple Morality Tale If you're on the Left, you're not meant to feel smug. By Brian Boucher, Mar 10, 2021
Art World In an Unusual Move, the Metropolitan Museum of Art Will Use Funds From Deaccessioned Artworks to Pay Staff Salaries Critics warn that donors might be discouraged from giving artworks if they fear they will be sold off when rainy days come. By Brian Boucher, Mar 9, 2021
Auctions Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey Is Auctioning Off the World’s First-Ever Tweet as an NFT—and the High Bid Is Already $2.5 Million The tech world is in thrall to NFTs. By Brian Boucher, Mar 9, 2021
Politics Ai Weiwei Is Making a Monument to Mikhail Gorbachev, the Liberalizing Final Leader of the Soviet Union, in Berlin The Chinese artist calls the Soviet leader a visionary. By Brian Boucher, Mar 8, 2021
Archaeology & History Archaeologists Have Unearthed an Ancient Egyptian Pet Cemetery Where Cats Were Buried in Fancy Beaded Necklaces Researchers also discovered a few monkeys and dogs buried near the ancient port of Berenice. By Brian Boucher, Mar 5, 2021
Art World Oops! A New Documentary About the Knoedler Fakes Scandal Accidentally Included an Artist’s Trick Image as Real This looks like a picture of Jackson Pollock in his studio, but it isn't. By Brian Boucher, Mar 5, 2021
Market Wu-Tang Clan Is Releasing a Strictly Limited-Edition Book Featuring Unseen Photos Inside a Custom-Made 400-Pound ‘Chamber’ No more than 36 will be produced in the edition. By Brian Boucher, Mar 4, 2021
Art World A Group of Financial Traders Torched a $95,000 Banksy on Camera to Transform It Into a (Maybe) More Valuable NFT Artwork With the original gone, the virtual asset's value increases, the traders say. By Brian Boucher, Mar 4, 2021
Politics As Biden Reverses Trump Immigration Policies, Foreign Artists Breathe a Sigh of Relief. But Many Hope for Better Than ‘Back to Normal’ “The Democrats’ relationship with immigration is not so great either,” points out artist Pablo Helguera. By Brian Boucher, Mar 4, 2021
Art World That Golden Trump Statue at CPAC? It Was Made in China, and One of the Artists Says He Wasn’t Given Credit Because He’s Mexican The statue was manufactured at the Shijiazhuang D & Z Sculpture Co., according to artist Jose Mauricio Mendoza. By Brian Boucher, Mar 3, 2021
Market The Boy Scouts of America Wants to Sell Dozens of Norman Rockwell Paintings as Part of a Nine-Figure Settlement Fund for Abuse Victims A filing on Monday includes a list of nearly 60 works by the American master among the scouting organization's holdings. By Brian Boucher, Mar 2, 2021