Law & Politics Billie Eilish’s New Music Video Looks a Lot Like a Shoot From Maurizio Cattelan’s Toiletpaper Magazine—See the Striking Resemblance Here Director Dave Meyers has been sued twice for allegedly plagiarizing the work of artists in music videos for Kendrick Lamar and Ariana Grande. By Naomi Rea, Jun 11, 2019
Galleries South Africa’s Goodman Gallery Is Opening a London Space as It Seeks Out New Markets for African Art Gallery director Liza Essers says the move will help ensure that "interest for African and diasporic art stretches beyond a 'fashionable moment' and into the history books.” By Naomi Rea, Jun 10, 2019
Art World Two Years After Beatrix Ruf’s Controversial Departure, the Stedelijk Museum Has Appointed Rein Wolfs as Its New Director The Dutch curator joins the institution from the Bundekunsthalle in Bonn. By Naomi Rea, Jun 10, 2019
Opinion A Gallery Has Sold More Than $1 Million in Art Made by an Android, But Collectors Are Buying Into a Sexist Fantasy Ai-Da's artwork says more about the penchants of its creators than it does about the potential of artistic robots. By Naomi Rea, Jun 6, 2019
Art & Exhibitions A Dutch Conservator Made the Discovery of a Lifetime When She Found That Monet Hid Water Lilies Beneath a Lesser-Known Painting See the x-ray of the previously unknown composition here. By Naomi Rea, Jun 4, 2019
Politics ‘Absolutely Vile’ or ‘Powerful’? Christoph Buchel’s Migrant Boat Is the Most Divisive Work at the Venice Biennale The provocative artist is showing, as a work of art, a ship in which hundreds of migrants drowned in 2015. By Javier Pes & Naomi Rea, May 16, 2019
Art World A Scholar Has Cracked the Mystery of the Voynich Manuscript, the Encrypted Medieval Artwork That Defeated Codebreakers for Years The hundred-year-old code, which some people thought was the work of aliens, describes women struggling to bathe unruly children at bath time. By Naomi Rea, May 16, 2019
People Artist Kehinde Wiley’s Latest Paintings Are a Progressive Riposte to Paul Gauguin’s Primitivist Portraits of Tahitians We spoke to the artist about his travels to Tahiti and the residency program he will be opening next month in Senegal. By Naomi Rea, May 15, 2019
Art World When Algeria Abruptly Cancelled its Venice Biennale Debut, Five Young Artists Decided Their Show Must Go On Amid political turmoil, the artists and curator raised the money for the guerrilla Algeria pavilion titled "Time to Shine Bright." By Naomi Rea, May 10, 2019
Art World Artist Hito Steyerl Slams a Weapons Manufacturer for Appropriating Leonardo da Vinci’s Name in Her Work for the Venice Biennale The Renaissance polymath kept his designs for a deadly submarine secret for fear it'd be misused. By Naomi Rea, May 10, 2019
Art World Venice’s Happening New Art Quarter Opens Far From the Tourist Crowds. Here’s What Makes Giudecca Special Work by Yoko Ono, and the Icelandic and Estonian pavilions are just some of the shows and performances to be found on the former industrial island. By Naomi Rea, May 10, 2019
Art World Rainy Weather Curtails the Venice Biennale’s Inaugural Performance Program Artists Victoria Sin and Paul Maheke's outdoor work is postponed at the last minute due to safety concerns but the show is due to go on tomorrow. By Naomi Rea, May 8, 2019
Art World Laure Prouvost Is Digging a Tunnel Between the French and British Pavilions at the Venice Biennale Everyone is talking about the French artist who blurs fact and fiction in a standout exhibition that invites you to dig below the surface. By Naomi Rea, May 8, 2019
Art World Venice Is Introducing an Entry Tax to Help Pay for the Damage Tourists Wreak, Beginning During This Year’s Biennale The new fee is targeted at day-trippers who circumvent the taxes normally collected by hotels. By Naomi Rea, May 6, 2019
Art World Artist Trevor Paglen’s $1.5 Million ‘Orbital Reflector’ Is Officially Lost in Space Thanks to President Trump’s Government Shutdown Engineers lost touch with the satellite when the FCC went silent during the government shutdown. By Naomi Rea, May 2, 2019