Art & Exhibitions For His Next Marathon Performance, Ragnar Kjartansson Asks Organists to Play an Italian Pop Song 3,000 Times The project is the Icelandic artist's first commission for a public collection in the UK. By Javier Pes, Nov 6, 2017
Politics How the Catalan Crisis Could Affect the Future of Dalí, Miró, and the Prado, Too Leading museums insist that it is business as usual during the Spain-Catalonia stand-off, but pressing questions remain unanswered. By Javier Pes, Nov 1, 2017
Art World Surprise, Surprise, Bloomberg’s New $1.3 Billion London Headquarters Has Some Pretty Spectacular Art Monumental works by Cristina Iglesias, Olafur Eliasson, Pae White, and leading British artists impress in a building designed by Norman Foster. By Javier Pes, Oct 26, 2017
Art World The Photographer Martin Parr Has a New Foundation—and He’s Using It to Make Chris Killip Famous The Magnum photographer will promote Britain's undervalued documentary photographers—but who will save their archives? By Javier Pes, Oct 25, 2017
Art World The First-Ever Calder Biography Reveals the Beloved Sculptor’s Radical Side There is much more to the inventor of the mobile than meets the eye. By Javier Pes, Oct 24, 2017
On View Inside an Idyllic Sculpture Park, Alfredo Jaar Exposes CIA Black Sites—and British Complicity The artist's sinister 'Garden of Good and Evil' has become a crowd magnet at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. By Javier Pes, Oct 23, 2017
People Miranda July’s Next Film Will Be About London’s First Interfaith Thrift Store US artist says her Artangel project shows that “charity begats charity” in troubled times. By Javier Pes, Oct 20, 2017
Art World Jack Whitten Will Have a Major Survey at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Next Year Opening at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the show will place the veteran artist's work 'in conversation with African and Ancient Greek art.' By Javier Pes, Oct 20, 2017
Art World A Millionaire Launches a Museum of Coal Miners’ Art to Help Revive a Small English Town’s Economy Jonathan Ruffer, the man who sent Zurbaráns to America, is investing $170 million to revive Bishop Auckland. By Javier Pes, Oct 19, 2017
Auctions Sotheby’s Auction to Help Survivors of Grenfell Tower Fire Raises Over $2.5 Million Tracey Emin, Wolfgang Tillmans, and gallerist Sadie Coles among first responders for charity auction at Sotheby’s. By Javier Pes, Oct 17, 2017
Art World Reinvigorated and Under New Leadership, Tate St Ives Opens Its Doors After a $27 Million Expansion The seaside town now has a renewed focus on artists who worked there—and twice the space to show their work. By Javier Pes, Oct 13, 2017