Politics England’s Great Exhibition Loses Arms Industry Sponsor After Artists Protest The festival includes "homecoming" shows for Glenn Brown and Michael Dean in Newcastle and Gateshead galleries that are partners in the government-backed event. By Javier Pes, Mar 8, 2018
Art & Exhibitions The Fable of the Seven Picassos of Basel: A Lesson for Museums in the Age of Market Madness The Swiss city was shocked to learn it could lose two masterpieces to America, so it put the purchase to a vote. The result was extraordinary. By Javier Pes, Mar 8, 2018
Art World Save the Planet—and Marina Abramović’s Avatar—From Rising Water Levels in the Artist’s First Virtual-Reality Work While Anish Kapoor’s virtual-reality debut takes the viewer on a gory journey through the human body. By Javier Pes, Mar 7, 2018
Art World Artist Vera Lutter Is Using Camera Obscuras to Photograph LACMA’s Old Buildings Before They Get Torn Down The artist has been recording parts of the museum from the 1960s that are due to be demolished. By Javier Pes, Mar 6, 2018
Art World Damien Hirst and Other YBAs Raised Millions So Their Alma Mater Could Get a New Art Gallery Goldsmiths CCA will open in September with new works by Mika Rottenberg followed by the UK's first Chicago Imagists show. By Javier Pes, Mar 2, 2018
Art & Exhibitions To Study Vermeer’s ‘Girl With a Pearl Earring,’ Experts Are Peeling Away Every Layer of Paint—Without Ever Touching It An international team of experts gets beneath the surface of Vermeer’s most famous portrait with the help of modern science. By Javier Pes, Feb 28, 2018
Art World A Japanese Collector’s Long-Lost Monet Has Been Rediscovered in the Louvre’s Storage Space The heavily damaged work is now in Tokyo for restoration ahead of its display next year. By Javier Pes, Feb 27, 2018
Art & Exhibitions ‘It Is the Story of America’: Yinka Shonibare on Planting a Dazzling Pro-Immigrant Statement Blocks From Trump Tower The British-Nigerian artist explains the motivation behind two high-profile public projects coming to the US. By Javier Pes, Feb 23, 2018
Art World Take a Sneak Peek at the Epic Sculpture Martin Puryear Just Finished for the US Embassy in Beijing The artist’s monumental work heads to China 10 years after it was commissioned, joining Jeff Koons's "Tulips." By Javier Pes, Feb 22, 2018
People A Group of Art-World Power Players Is Demanding the Stedelijk Give Beatrix Ruf Her Job Back The newspaper advertisement and online petition have been backed by Richard Serra, Wade Guyton, and Rem Koolhaas. By Javier Pes & Julia Halperin, Feb 20, 2018
Art & Exhibitions Ernesto Neto Plans to Transform Zurich’s Busiest Train Station Into a Rainforest The Brazilian artist is teaming up with the Fondation Beyeler to build a massive tree canopy above Zurich's busiest railway station. By Javier Pes, Feb 19, 2018
Art World UK Museums Face Growing Pressure to Sell Off Works Unless Public Funding Improves Report highlights a “shocking” state of affairs as nation spends less on the arts than France—or Latvia. By Javier Pes, Feb 16, 2018
Market More Than an Alternative Art Fair, Condo Wants to Revive Gallery-Going Worldwide. Is It Working? The co-hab event for international galleries spiced up the New Year in London and is headed next to Mexico City. By Naomi Rea & Javier Pes, Feb 15, 2018
Art Fairs On the Hunt for Young Talent, Collectors Flock to Material and the Even Edgier Salon Acme in Mexico City Plus, we round up seven artists to watch at Material, a fair dedicated to young galleries. By Javier Pes, Feb 9, 2018
Art Fairs At Zona Maco, Artists and Dealers Strive to Find the Positives of US-Mexico Relations in the Age of Trump Damián Ortega and Gabriel Orozco raise funds for earthquake victims during a hectic week of art fairs and exhibition openings in Mexico City. By Javier Pes, Feb 8, 2018