Taylor Dafoe

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Art World

A Bored Russian Museum Guard Damaged a Prized Avant-Garde Painting by Doodling Cartoon Eyes Onto Two Faceless Figures

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Museums & Institutions

SFMOMA Has Named Christopher Bedford, Headline-Grabbing Leader of the Baltimore Museum of Art, as Its New Director

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Law & Politics

Pussy Riot Member Masha Alyokhina Has Been Arrested in Moscow for the Second Time in Three Months

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Politics

The Abrupt Removal of the U.N.’s 25-Foot Tapestry of Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ Caused an Uproar. Now, the Mystery Has Been Solved

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Art & Exhibitions

The Whitney Museum Will Stage a Landmark Show of Puerto Rican Art Made in the Five Years Since Hurricane Maria

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NFTs

Buzzfeed Exposed the Identities of Two Bored Ape Yacht Club Creators, Touching Off a Heated Debate About Pseudonymity in Crypto

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On View

What Can a Family of Simulated Orks in an Art Gallery Teach Us About Life in Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse? A Lot, Actually

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Art World

See Theaster Gates’s Plan for the Next Serpentine Pavilion: A Timber Chapel Inspired by Historic English Kilns 

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Law & Politics

More Than 1,600 Works of Art—Including Major Pieces by Banksy—Were Secretly Shuffled Through Shell Companies, Pandora Papers Reveal

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Museums & Institutions

After Almost Two Years, L.A.’s Underground Museum Reopens With New Leadership and an Emotional Tribute to Its Late Founder

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Politics

U.S. President Biden Has Reversed a Trump-Era Rule Requiring Pro-American Art in Federal Buildings

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Art World

Candice Breitz and Other Berlin-Based Artists Are Calling for a Boycott of a New Art Space at the Historic Tempelhof Airport

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Auctions

Bonhams Hoped to Pull in $60,000 From an Auction of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Library. The Sale Made $2.4 Million

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Museums & Institutions

In a Sign of the Times, Experts Across the Smithsonian Have Drafted Its First Institution-Wide Restitution Policy

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Law & Politics

In a ‘Historic’ Move, France’s National Assembly Just Unanimously Voted to Return 15 Artworks Stolen During World War II

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