Art World The Art Institutes, a Collection of For-Profit Colleges, Announced It Will Abruptly Close Its Eight Remaining Campuses Schools in Atlanta, Miami, and elsewhere will shutter for good this weekend. Students were informed of the planned closures just last week. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 28, 2023
On View New Red Order Built a Fake World’s Fair in Queens to Make a Very Real Demand: Give Back All Native Stolen Lands Now The wit of the Creative Time-commissioned project makes its earnest message hit even harder. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 28, 2023
Art World Public Art Organization Creative Time Is Getting Its First Permanent Event Space, Where Artists Are Invited to ‘Convene and Exchange’ Open to artists and activists, Creative Time HQ was conceived as a resource for community-level organizing efforts. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 27, 2023
On View Artist Carmen Winant’s New Show Turns an Intimate Eye on the Subtle—Even Banal—Realities of Abortion Care The exhibition substitutes sensationalized images for humble, human ones. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 22, 2023
Law Seven Nazi-Looted Egon Schiele Artworks Have Been Returned to the Heirs of a Jewish Collector in a Precedent-Setting Move The Schiele pieces were handed over today in an event organized by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 20, 2023
Reviews The Nasher Museum’s New Art Show Was Curated by ChatGPT. We Asked ChatGPT to Review It The show embraces the playfulness of its conceit but A.I. anxieties still poke through. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 18, 2023
People Fernando Botero, Whose Robust, Sensual Style Belied a Sly Political Wit, Has Died News of his passing was shared by Colombian president Gustavo Petro. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 15, 2023
Law Investigators Seized Three Egon Schiele Works From U.S. Museums, Claiming They Were Stolen From a Jewish Collector During World War II The D.A.’s involvement moves the cases from civil court to criminal court. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 14, 2023
Crime A Vincent van Gogh Painting Stolen From a Dutch Museum Three Years Ago Has Just Been Returned—in an Ikea Bag The 1884 painting was stolen from the Singer Laren museum in 2020. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 12, 2023
Crime How We Should Look at Donald Trump’s Historic Mug Shot, the First Ever Taken of a U.S. President Photo history shows that mug shots aren't just legal documents. They are designed to circulate as media spectacle. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 25, 2023
Museums British Museum Director Hartwig Fischer Has Stepped Down, Hastening His Previously Planned Departure as Theft Scandal Grows "The responsibility for that failure must ultimately rest with the director," Fischer said in the surprise announcement. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 25, 2023
Museums Outgoing British Museum Director Hartwig Fischer Speaks Out for the First Time About the Thefts That Took Place Under His Watch “At every step my priority has been the care of the incredible British Museum collection, and that continues today,” the embattled director said. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 24, 2023
Crime Three London Men Have Been Convicted of Stealing a $2.5 Million Ming Dynasty Vase From a Swiss Museum in 2019 The vase was recovered in a sting operation two years later when officers posed as buyers offering £450,000. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 23, 2023
Museums In the Wake of a 1,500-Object Theft at the British Museum, Greece Is Renewing Calls for It to Return the Parthenon Marbles The museum's senior curator of Greek and Roman art is suspected of stealing the items over the course of years. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 22, 2023
On View Photographers Recreate Old Master Paintings in Witty and Profound Ways in a New Show at a Princeton University Art Gallery Pictures by Ori Gersht, Nina Katchadourian, and Vik Muniz are on view in “Art about Art: Contemporary Photographers Look at Old Master Paintings” By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 21, 2023
