Art World As Museums Fall in Love With ‘Experiences,’ Their Core Missions Face Redefinition Experience has become a buzzword in marketing—and now it's museums' favorite noun, too. By Naomi Rea, Mar 14, 2019
Art World A Defunct UK Factory Needs to Dispose of 30 Tons of Buttons. Ai Weiwei Has a Crazy Idea: ‘Can I Have Them All?’ The Chinese artist responded to a plea made by a factory that is closing down. By Naomi Rea, Mar 11, 2019
Art & Exhibitions This Year’s Venice Biennale Will ‘Articulate a Counter Offer’ to Donald Trump’s Vision of the World The show's curator, Ralph Rugoff, is organizing two separate exhibitions for the biennale to create a "multivalent, richly ambiguous" show. By Naomi Rea, Mar 8, 2019
Art World Newly Discovered Drawings Beneath a Work by Artemisia Gentileschi Suggest She Often Used Herself as a Model Hidden images indicate that the proto-feminist painter’s portrait of Saint Catherine was actually a a depiction of herself. By Naomi Rea, Mar 7, 2019
Market Sotheby’s First Auction of an AI Artwork Fails to Incite a Robo-Frenzy, Fetching a Modest $51,000 After a six-figure sale at Christie's in New York, Mario Klingemann's innovative installation that creates surreal portraits sells for $51,000. By Naomi Rea, Mar 6, 2019
On View See Unseen Photos of the Artist Lucian Freud Larking About in His Studio With a Nude Male Model and a Pet Rat The intimate photos, taken by the painter's daughter, Rose Boyt, are on view at London's Ordovas gallery. By Naomi Rea, Mar 4, 2019
Law & Politics A British Court Just Made a Landmark Decision in Favor of Museum Educators That Could Have Big Implications for the Gig Economy A London court has ruled that a group of former lecturers at the National Gallery should be granted workers' rights. By Naomi Rea, Mar 1, 2019
On View ‘Van Gogh, to Me, Is a Contemporary Artist’: David Hockney on What It’s Like to Show Alongside Your Idol The 81-year-old artist laughed off getting stuck in an elevator at the opening of the unprecedented exhibition. By Naomi Rea, Feb 28, 2019
Art Fairs Can Marrakesh Become a Major Art-World Destination? One Art Fair Is Betting on the Famed City of Souks With the arrival of the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, locals are optimistic about the future of the rose city as an art-market hub. By Naomi Rea, Feb 26, 2019
Art World 5 Artists From Africa and Its Diaspora to Discover at the Second 1-54 Art Fair in Marrakesh The fair has lots of big names, but there is also plenty to discover. By Naomi Rea, Feb 22, 2019
Art World The Prada Foundation’s New Show Is Devoted to Surreal Photos of People in Love With Their Sex Dolls and Artificial Babies The exhibition features unexpectedly moving images of dolls as part of the fabric of domestic life. By Naomi Rea, Feb 18, 2019
On View The Artist Is Not Present: How Marina Abramović Used Mixed Reality to Create a Hyper-realistic Virtual Performance The artist is using cutting-edge technology to create her new project at the Serpentine Galleries in London. By Naomi Rea, Feb 18, 2019
On View For the First Time Ever, the Rijksmuseum Is Showing All 400 of Its Rembrandts at Once. Take a Look Inside the Momentous Exhibition Tickets are flying for the once-in-a-lifetime tribute to the Dutch artist’s genius. By Naomi Rea, Feb 15, 2019
Galleries The Famed Paris Gallery Bernheim-Jeune, Which Held the First van Gogh Retrospective in 1901, Has Closed The gallery also held the first Futurist exhibition ever to come to Paris in 1912. By Kate Brown & Naomi Rea, Feb 14, 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