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Auctions

The British Library Has Joined Forces With Other U.K. Institutions to Save a Historic Manuscript Collection From the Auction Block

Valued at $21 million, the Honresfield Library includes rare material from Jane Austen, Walter Scott, the Brontë sisters.

By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 17, 2021

Shows & Exhibitions

The Obama Presidential Portraits Kick Off an 11-Month Tour in Chicago This Week. Tickets Are Already Selling Out

The paintings by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald are expected to draw large crowds at each of the five museums on the tour.

By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 17, 2021

Auctions

Director and Artist Robert Wilson Is Auctioning Off His First-Ever NFT: A Video Portrait of Lady Gaga

The piece casts the pop star in an animated restaging of Jacques-Louis David’s 1793 painting, ‘The Death of Marat.’

By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 16, 2021

Pop Culture

MacKenzie Scott Just Gave Out $2.7 Billion in Grants, Including Millions to Some of America’s Most Progressive Arts Organizations

Souls Grown Deep, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and United States Artists were among the recipients of the major donation.

By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 15, 2021

People

‘She’s Kind of Our David Hockney’: How Hilary Pecis Set the Art World Aflutter With Charming Paintings of Life in Los Angeles

With a sold-out show in London and works on view in New York and L.A., Pecis is the it post-lockdown painter.

By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 10, 2021

Auctions

In Just 10 Minutes, One Coin and Five Stamps Owned by Shoe Designer Stuart Weitzman Fetched $32 Million at Sotheby’s

The buyers included financier David Rubenstein and stamp merchant Stanley Gibbons.

By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 9, 2021

Politics

The Detroit Institute of Arts Commissioned a Mural for the Local Police Department. Amid Backlash, the Artist Who Made It Wants It Gone

"If this piece is interpreted by the people that I care about as being a sign of brutality, then it should be removed," the artist said.

By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 8, 2021

Shows & Exhibitions

In the 1970s, Top Artists Were Commissioned to Design the Monuments of Their Dreams. Now, You Can See Them For the First Time

A stack of one million oil drums and a giant bowling ball running down Park Avenue are some of the proposals in “Dream Monuments.”

By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 7, 2021

Politics

A Spanish Art Professor and Her Students Staged a Silent Protest at the Picasso Museum to Raise Awareness of the Artist’s Treatment of Women

The group showed up with custom t-shirts calling out Picasso’s behavior.

By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 7, 2021

Museums

Paris’s Centre Pompidou Is Opening Its First-Ever North American Outpost—in New Jersey

The satellite branch is expected to open in early 2024, just after the museum’s flagship Paris location closes for renovations.

By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 4, 2021

Museums

Over Memorial Day Weekend, New York Museums Scored Their Highest Visitor Numbers Since the Pandemic Started

Thousands flocked to the Met, MoMA, and other institutions over the holiday weekend.

By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 3, 2021

Art World

An Italian Artist Auctioned Off an ‘Invisible Sculpture’ for $18,300. It’s Made Literally of Nothing

“It is a work that asks you to activate the power of the imagination,” Salvatore Garau said of his sculpture.

By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 3, 2021

Museums

The Effects of the Pandemic May Not Be Quite as Devastating for American Museums as Once Feared, a New Survey Finds

Fifteen percent of surveyed museums are at risk of closing now. This time last year, it was 30 percent.

By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 2, 2021

Pop Culture

Is the Newsstand the New Art Gallery? Magazines Are Swapping Out Celebrity Covers for Artworks by Famous Artists in a Bid to Stay Relevant

A trend that may have started as a response to the limitations of lockdowns has taken on a life of its own.

By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 2, 2021

Politics

Cuban Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara Has Been Released After a Hunger Strike and Four Weeks in Custody

The artist and activist was forcibly hospitalized after going on a hunger strike to protest government censorship.

By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 1, 2021

Taylor Dafoe

News Reporter

The British Library Has Joined Forces With Other U.K. Institutions to Save a Historic Manuscript Collection From the Auction Block

The Obama Presidential Portraits Kick Off an 11-Month Tour in Chicago This Week. Tickets Are Already Selling Out

Director and Artist Robert Wilson Is Auctioning Off His First-Ever NFT: A Video Portrait of Lady Gaga

MacKenzie Scott Just Gave Out $2.7 Billion in Grants, Including Millions to Some of America’s Most Progressive Arts Organizations

‘She’s Kind of Our David Hockney’: How Hilary Pecis Set the Art World Aflutter With Charming Paintings of Life in Los Angeles

In Just 10 Minutes, One Coin and Five Stamps Owned by Shoe Designer Stuart Weitzman Fetched $32 Million at Sotheby’s

The Detroit Institute of Arts Commissioned a Mural for the Local Police Department. Amid Backlash, the Artist Who Made It Wants It Gone

In the 1970s, Top Artists Were Commissioned to Design the Monuments of Their Dreams. Now, You Can See Them For the First Time

A Spanish Art Professor and Her Students Staged a Silent Protest at the Picasso Museum to Raise Awareness of the Artist’s Treatment of Women

Paris’s Centre Pompidou Is Opening Its First-Ever North American Outpost—in New Jersey

Over Memorial Day Weekend, New York Museums Scored Their Highest Visitor Numbers Since the Pandemic Started

An Italian Artist Auctioned Off an ‘Invisible Sculpture’ for $18,300. It’s Made Literally of Nothing

The Effects of the Pandemic May Not Be Quite as Devastating for American Museums as Once Feared, a New Survey Finds

Is the Newsstand the New Art Gallery? Magazines Are Swapping Out Celebrity Covers for Artworks by Famous Artists in a Bid to Stay Relevant

Cuban Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara Has Been Released After a Hunger Strike and Four Weeks in Custody

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