Art World The Actor Who Played Robocop Is Now an Art Historian, and He’s Returning to Detroit to Face a New Threat: ‘The Crisis of Beauty’ Actor and art historian Peter Weller is participating in this fall's Culture Lab Detroit conference with Amy Sherald, Anicka Yi, and others. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 14, 2018
Art World The Hirshhorn Museum Acquires Tino Sehgal’s ‘This You,’ Its First-Ever Performance Artwork The work posed many tricky questions for the institution and its staff. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 9, 2018
Art World An Australian TV Show Turned Regular People Into Art Critics. What They Had to Say was Funny, Moving, and Sometimes Profound “Everyone’s a Critic” takes a diverse cast of people and puts them in front of a variety of artworks at Australia's biggest museums. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 8, 2018
On View At the Whitney, Alt-Fashion Icons Eckhaus Latta Revolutionize the Way Museums Exhibit Couture Part interactive art show, part retail boutique, “Eckhaus Latta: Possessed” is the first fashion-related exhibition at the museum in 21 years. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 7, 2018
Art World El Anatsui Will Use a Humongous Sheet of Bottle Caps to Drape a Whole Museum for the Carnegie International This Fall Tavares Strachan, Park McArthur, and Mimi Cherono Ng'ok will also contribute site-specific works. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 1, 2018
Art World Trump’s State Department Has Yet to Pick a US Representative for the Venice Biennale. Artist Justin Lieberman Has a Suggestion Lieberman has launched a petition stating that famed realist painter Jon McNaughton “must represent America in Venice Biennale.” By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 27, 2018
On View The Visual Arts Arm of the Talent Agency UTA Moves Into a New Ai Weiwei-Designed Space in Beverly Hills After just two years in Boyle Heights, the exhibition space moves to a 4,000 square foot factory located 200 yards from UTA's headquarters. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 13, 2018
On View For His Latest Series, Ryan McGinley Handed His Subjects a Camera to Take Their Own High-Concept Nude Selfies For “Mirror, Mirror,” on view now at Team Gallery, the artist provided friends with cameras and mirrors and asked them to take the photos. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 9, 2018
On View How Sculptor Angela de la Cruz Uses Twisted Metal to Explore the Vulnerability of the Body at Lisson Gallery In a new video, the gallery offers insight into “Bare,” de la Cruz’s new show on view now in London. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 5, 2018
Art World Want a Crash Course in Contemporary Art? Here Are 6 Books to Check Out at Printed Matter’s New Store After four decades on New York's West Side, the venerable artists’ bookstore opened its first satellite branch in the East Village last week. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 27, 2018
Art World Burt Reynolds Plays a Wise Art Dealer in This Honest-to-God New Movie About Finding Love at Art Basel Miami Beach Smokey and the Basel? The Hollywood vet stars as a wizened dealer who doles out advice on art and love. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 25, 2018
Exhibitions From Painted Kites to an Artist Studio Dedicated to Rejection, the Carnegie International’s First Round of New Projects Is Full of Surprises The 57th edition of the Carnegie Museum of Art's exhibition includes new works by Zoe Leonard, Postcommodity, and Joan Jonas. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 21, 2018
People Meet Hao Liang, the Young Chinese Artist Whose Reboot of Ancient Ink Painting Has Become a Bona Fide Market Sensation The up-and-coming artist's dense, referential paintings have already sold out at Gagosian. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 20, 2018
Events and Parties Artists Ryder Ripps and Maggie West Teamed Up With Pornhub to Create an Interactive Sci-Fi Installation Set in 2069 “Given the current state of things, this really doesn’t feel that far off.” By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 14, 2018
Art World How Artist Duo Semiconductor Turned Subatomic Data Into a ‘Chiming Time Sculpture’ for Art Basel For Audemars Piguet's 4th Arts Commission, the British creative duo aims to show viewers how cutting-edge science works. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 13, 2018
