Art & Exhibitions The Vatican Library Just Opened Its First Permanent Contemporary Art Gallery a Stone’s Throw From the Sistine Chapel The installation by Italian artist Pietro Ruffo will be on view through February 2022. By Caroline Goldstein, Nov 5, 2021
Art World ‘I’m Working More With White Flesh and Toxicity’: Watch Artist Doreen Garner Explain Why She Embraced a New Approach After 2020 As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. By Caroline Goldstein, Nov 4, 2021
Art World ‘Not a Lot of Art Seems Accessible to Working-Class People’: Watch Artist Tanya Aguiñiga Explain How Craft Traditions Root Her Work in Community As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. By Caroline Goldstein, Oct 28, 2021
Archaeology & History Ancient Egyptians Were Embalming Their Dead Dignitaries a Millennium Earlier Than Previously Known, Experts Find One of the oldest mummies ever found is beginning to unwrap his secrets. By Caroline Goldstein, Oct 26, 2021
Art World See Sculptures by Kehinde Wiley, Alison Saar, and More Commissioned for Destination Crenshaw, L.A.’s $100 Million Black Arts Initiative 100 sculptures will ultimately line a 1.3-mile corridor in South Los Angeles. By Caroline Goldstein, Oct 26, 2021
Art World ‘Come Think With Me’: Watch Kameela Janan Rasheed Explain How She Reworks Found Text Into Destabilizing Works of Visual Art As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. By Caroline Goldstein, Oct 21, 2021
Museums & Institutions To Escape Facebook’s Scrutiny, Vienna Museums Are Revealing Their Raciest Art (and Educating the Masses) on the Adult Site OnlyFans The museums' nudes have been censored by other social media channels. By Caroline Goldstein, Oct 18, 2021
Artnet News Pro Here Are the 15 Most Expensive Artworks Sold at Auction Around the World in September 2021 Two of the top 15 most expensive works came from the NFT-verse. By Caroline Goldstein, Oct 18, 2021
Politics Cambridge University’s Jesus College Has Become One of the First U.K. Institutions to Actually Return a Benin Bronze to Nigeria Officials hope more institutions will follow suit. By Caroline Goldstein, Oct 15, 2021
Art World ‘It’s Finding the Gap in the Bureaucratic Process’: Watch Minerva Cuevas Explain How She Makes Art From Acts of ‘Micro-Sabotage’ As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. By Caroline Goldstein, Oct 14, 2021
Auctions A Basquiat Painting Picked Up in 1998 for Less Than $400,000 Could Make More Than $40 Million at Christie’s in November The painting, created by the late artist while he was in Italy in 1982, stands to make a 10,222 percent return. By Caroline Goldstein, Oct 13, 2021
Art & Exhibitions See How a New Generation of Ceramic Artists Is Pushing the Medium Into Strange Dimensions in Jeffrey Deitch’s ‘Clay Pop’ "Clay Pop" is on view through October 30. By Caroline Goldstein, Oct 6, 2021
Museums & Institutions Baltimore Museum Employees Are Planning to Unionize as a Nationwide Labor Movement Takes Hold in U.S. Art Institutions The workers are calling for better job security and fair pay. By Caroline Goldstein, Oct 5, 2021
Art World ‘I Have One Foot in the Subconscious and One In Reality’: As His L-Train Murals Debut, Watch Marcel Dzama Explain The Dark Side of His Whimsical Art As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. By Caroline Goldstein, Sep 30, 2021
Art World Artists Jordan Casteel and Daniel Lind-Ramos Are Among the 2021 Winners of the MacArthur ‘Genius’ Awards The prestigious award comes with $625,000. By Caroline Goldstein, Sep 28, 2021