Art & Exhibitions How Curators David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards Tackled the 2022 Whitney Biennial to Show ‘What America Really Looks Like’ Their statement show, “Quiet as It's Kept,” was delayed a year because of the pandemic. It finally opens to the public next month. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 29, 2022
Art World The Memphis Airport Is Facing Allegations of Censorship After It Removed an Asian American Artist’s Portrait of Himself as Elvis The airport said it removed the work in response to "negative feedback from Elvis fans." By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 22, 2022
On View The Baltimore Museum of Art Invited Its Guards to Curate Their Latest Exhibition. Here’s How They Took on the Challenge “Guarding the Art” features artworks from the BMA’s collection selected by 17 members of its security team. It opens this weekend. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 21, 2022
Politics Russian Forces Bombed an Art School in Ukraine, Where Hundreds of Civilians Had Taken Shelter It’s unclear if any of the 400 people hiding out at the G12 art school in Mariupol, including women, children and the elderly, have survived. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 21, 2022
People The Artist Is Present—Again: Marina Abramović Is Restaging Her Best-Known Performance to Benefit Ukraine All proceeds will go to Direct Relief’s Ukraine aid efforts. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 18, 2022
Art & Exhibitions A Con Artist’s Artist: Anna Delvey Teamed Up With a Basquiat Forger to Stage a Show of Her Prison Drawings in New York Curator Alfredo Martinez, an artist who did time for selling fake Basquiats, connected with Delvey's work. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 17, 2022
Art World Want to Hear a Radical Nonprofit Strategy? After Laying Off Its Full-Time Staff, A Blade of Grass Will Now Pay Its Board Members Shelley Rubin, who founded the organization in 2011, will depart as part of the transition to an artist-led model. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 17, 2022
Museums & Institutions ‘We Simply Do Not Have Any Answers’: L.A.’s Underground Museum, Founded by the Late Noah Davis, Has Abruptly Closed The beloved alternative art space just reopened for the first time since February of 2020. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 16, 2022
People ‘God Forbid We Should Talk About Joy’: Jennie C. Jones on Dodging Pressure to Signify Blackness in Her Art, and Finding Her Own Language A survey of Jones’s work, which includes sculpture, painting, and audio, is on view now at the Guggenheim. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 16, 2022
NFTs Launched by Art-World Insiders, the New NFT Platform Artwrld Is Trying to Corner the Market Where Traditional and Crypto Art Meet Artwrld was co-founded by curator Nato Thompson, artist Walid Raad, and designer Josh Goldblum. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 15, 2022
Museums & Institutions Mexican Architect Frida Escobedo Will Design the Met’s New $500 Million Modern and Contemporary Art Wing Chosen from a shortlist of five, she will become the first woman to design a wing at the museum. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 14, 2022
Law & Politics For 25 Years, Jeff Koons Has Been Locked In a Legal Battle With an Italian Man Over a Sculpture He Insists He Didn’t Create An appeals court judge in Milan recently ruled in favor of the collector, calling the sculpture an “authentic artwork” by the artist. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 11, 2022
People Kat Lyons’s Surreal, Soulful Portraits of Livestock Will Make You Reconsider Your Relationship to Animals Collectors are clamoring for work by the young painter, whose most recent show in London swiftly sold out. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 10, 2022
Museums & Institutions In a Landmark Move, the Smithsonian Will Return Benin Bronzes in Its Collection to Nigeria The move comes as the Smithsonian works to develop a new institution-wide restitution policy. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 8, 2022
Law & Politics In New Settlement Discussions, the Sackler Family Agrees to Allow Any Museum to Remove Its Name Without Penalty As part of the agreement, the Sackler family would also be forced to pay $6 billion to various U.S. states for its role in the opioid epidemic. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 4, 2022