Politics A Venice Coalition Is Protesting Plans to Permanently House a Biennale Archive in the Arsenale The Forum Futuro Arsenale's alternative vision proposes a center for boat maintenance with space for local artists. By Caroline Goldstein, Feb 10, 2022
Pop Culture A Dazzling Gustav Klimt Show Will Inaugurate New York’s First Permanent Immersive Experience Venue The company behind Paris's Atelier des Lumières is opening a space in Manhattan. By Caroline Goldstein, Feb 9, 2022
Museums The First Posthumous Retrospective Dedicated to Designer Virgil Abloh Will Go on View at the Brooklyn Museum This Summer Two decades of work will be on view. By Caroline Goldstein, Feb 7, 2022
Art World ‘Culture Is a Prison’: Watch Alfredo Jaar Explain How His Experimental Art Is Inspired by Radical Italian Thought As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. By Caroline Goldstein, Feb 3, 2022
Shows & Exhibitions See Ancient, Stunningly Well-Preserved Frescoes From Pompeii, Now on View at New York University The frescoes shed light on daily life in the doomed city. By Caroline Goldstein, Feb 2, 2022
Books The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Will Publish a 10-Volume Catalogue Raisonné on the Artist Over the Next Two Decades The project will focus exclusively on the artist's paintings and sculptures. By Caroline Goldstein, Feb 1, 2022
Art Fairs Design Miami Announces a New Global Curatorial Director—and a Paris Edition Opposite the New Art Basel The fair is gearing up for an October launch. By Caroline Goldstein, Jan 31, 2022
Auctions Sotheby’s Is Selling an Immense Black Diamond It Claims Came From Outer Space Some experts question the extraterrestrial origins of carbonaro diamonds. By Caroline Goldstein, Jan 31, 2022
Shows & Exhibitions In Pictures: See Work From the Late Art Star Matthew Wong’s First Museum Show, Dedicated to His Mesmerizing Blue Paintings The exhibition is on view at the Art Gallery of Ontario. By Caroline Goldstein, Jan 28, 2022
NFTs Which Celebrities Have NFTs as Profile Pics? Here Are 21 of the Most Unexpected, From Ozzy Osbourne to Shonda Rhimes Celebrities are really leaning into NFT PFPs. By Caroline Goldstein, Jan 27, 2022
Shows & Exhibitions In Pictures: See Stunning Works by the Late Fashion Designer Thierry Mugler, Who Dressed Kim, Cardi, and Gaga An exhibition on view at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris traces the career of the French designer, who died on Sunday. By Caroline Goldstein, Jan 24, 2022
Art World ‘We’re Not Used to Seeing Colors Distort Form’: Watch Artist Liz Larner Explain Her Rule-Bending Abstract Sculpture As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. By Caroline Goldstein, Jan 21, 2022
Museums The Netherlands Makes a Controversial Decision to Buy a Prized Rembrandt for a Whopping $198 Million Critics worry that the government's money will pass into a tax haven in the Cook Islands. By Caroline Goldstein, Jan 19, 2022
Auctions A $546 Million Roman Villa With the Only Ceiling Mural Caravaggio Ever Painted Just Flopped at Auction Villa Aurora is at the center of a family legal dispute. By Caroline Goldstein, Jan 18, 2022
Shows & Exhibitions Jerry Saltz Once Called ‘Artforum’ Ads ‘the Porn of the Art World.’ A New Show Brings Together Some of the Best—See Them Here Brooklyn-based Gallery 98 is displaying a time capsule of the art world in the form of old Artforum advertisements from 1970 to 2010. By Caroline Goldstein, Jan 18, 2022
