Shows & Exhibitions Artist Antony Gormley’s New VR Art Project Takes You to the Moon—but It’s a One-Way Trip Everyone can be an astronaut for 15 minutes in the British sculptor's extraordinary air-and-space collaboration with a Yale astrophysicist. By Javier Pes, Apr 5, 2019
Art World It’s Tough to Be a Museum Director These Days and 4 Other Takeaways From Qatar’s Star-Studded Culture Summit Museum directors and art-world luminaries from Qatar and around the world came out in force and dropped all kinds of hints about future plans for their institutions. By Javier Pes, Apr 2, 2019
Art World Despite a Saudi Blockade, Qatar Opens a Vast Jean Nouvel-Designed National Museum The architect has delivered the biggest local history museum in the world at a time when the gas- and oil-rich kingdom is pushing back against an economic siege. By Javier Pes, Mar 27, 2019
Market Anxious London Art Dealers Are Hatching Emergency Plans to Ship Art Abroad as Brexit Negotiators Get a Two-Week Extension The mood in the UK is apprehensive as the nation waits to see how Prime Minister Theresa May will proceed. By Javier Pes, Mar 22, 2019
Analysis Biennials Are Proliferating Worldwide. There’s Just One Problem: Nobody Wants to Pay For Them Artists are often left to shoulder much of the burden when a biennial requires ambitious new work. By Kate Brown & Javier Pes, Mar 21, 2019
Politics In a Landmark Decision, London’s National Portrait Gallery Drops a $1.3 Million Gift from the Sacklers The gallery is the first major art museum to put a donation from the Sackler family on hold, indefinitely. By Kate Brown & Javier Pes, Mar 19, 2019
On View Proving the Power of the Fashion Blockbuster, the V&A’s Christian Dior Show Has Already Sold Out Its Tickets in Record Time The show will now be extended for seven more weeks. By Javier Pes, Mar 13, 2019
Shows & Exhibitions Painter Sean Scully Is Planning a Deeply Personal Exhibition in a Venice Church That Will Pay Tribute to His Lost Son The artist’s solo show will be at the landmark Basilica of San Giorgio. By Javier Pes, Mar 5, 2019
On View What Was Dorothea Tanning Trying to Tell Us With Her Art? The Curator of Her New Show Explains the Surrealist’s Intimate Symbology Here are five major works from the show, with a primer on what they mean to say. By Javier Pes, Mar 4, 2019
People Following His Turbulent Departure From MOCA, Philippe Vergne Gets the Top Job at Portugal’s Serralves Museum The French director will lead the Serralves Museum while Helen Molseworth heads to Colorado for her next job. By Kate Brown & Javier Pes, Feb 27, 2019
Law Police Have Evacuated Saint Petersburg’s Storied Hermitage Museum Due to a Bomb Threat The museum's director and senior staff remain at their posts, but the museum is closed. By Javier Pes, Feb 21, 2019
Politics Hundreds of Protesters Demonstrated at the British Museum Against Its Relationship With Oil Giant BP BP maintains sponsorships at the museum and other British institutions. By Javier Pes, Feb 19, 2019
Art World As a New Rembrandt Show Opens, This Dutch Charity Is Bringing Terminally Ill Patients to See It The Rijksmuseum's show "All the Rembrandts" will mean even more demand to pay a final visit to the institution. By Javier Pes, Feb 18, 2019
On View Artist Simon Fujiwara Created a Miniature ‘Salvator Mundi’ Inside a Miniature Museum—and You Can See It Here The project goes on view this week at Whitechapel Gallery. By Javier Pes, Feb 12, 2019
Art World Tate Modern’s Angry Neighbors Lose Their Legal Battle Over Museum Visitors Peeping Into Their Apartments The upset residents wanted to screen off part of the museum’s popular viewing platform claiming invasion of privacy. By Javier Pes & Naomi Rea, Feb 12, 2019
