Exhibitions This Year’s Edition of Prospect New Orleans Will Examine What Has Changed—and What Hasn’t—Since the City Was Ravaged by Floods Mark Bradford, Kevin Beasley, and Simone Leigh are among the artists in this year’s show. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 2, 2020
Market Artist William Powhida Doesn’t Have Room to Store All His Work—So He Wants You to Borrow It, for Free “I am proposing something between letting go of work for free and trying to sell it on consignment," the artist says. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 28, 2020
People Hunter Biden Has Left Lobbying to Become a Fine Artist. So What Does the Art World Think of Joe Biden’s Son’s Work? Biden says his practice of making blown ink abstractions on paper helped him in his struggle with addiction. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 28, 2020
People ‘Becoming a Director Was About Getting Power’: Ja’Tovia Gary on How She Went From Art-School Outcast to Sought-After Experimental Filmmaker On the occasion of her first show at Paula Cooper in New York, we spoke with the artist about her path through the art world. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 28, 2020
Art and Law A Brazilian Court Has Acquitted Art Collector Bernardo Paz of Charges That He Used His Inhotim Museum to Launder Money A three-judge panel overturned a 2017 conviction that would have sentenced Paz to nine years in prison. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 27, 2020
Art World The Auschwitz Museum Is Slamming Amazon’s New Show About Nazi Hunters for Taking Creative Liberties With the Holocaust The show's creator says he didn't want to recreate "specific, real acts of trauma." By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 25, 2020
Politics Nan Goldin, Kara Walker, and the DIS Art Collective Are Among the Hundreds of Cultural Figures Endorsing Bernie Sanders for US President More than 665 artists have signed a new open letter in support of Sanders. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 24, 2020
Market Sotheby’s Will Hold Its Closely Watched Spring Hong Kong Art Auctions in New York as the Coronavirus Epidemic Rages On The auction house will stage the auctions this April in New York. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 24, 2020
Art and Law The Met Just Returned a Prized Silver Cup, Stolen by a Nazi Art Dealer, to Its Rightful Heirs After Almost 80 Years The object was taken from a German-born Jewish banker before he and his wife were murdered at concentration camps. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 21, 2020
Art World The Bumbling Thieves Who Stole an Enormous $4.3 Million Gold Coin From a Berlin Museum—and Probably Melted It Down—Are Heading to Prison The high-profile heist involved a skateboard and a wheelbarrow. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 21, 2020
Art World High-Tech Radar May Have Just Led Researchers to Discover Nefertiti’s Secret Burial Chamber in King Tut’s Tomb If true, “it could be the biggest archaeological discovery ever." By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 20, 2020
People ‘When I See These Paintings, I See Myself’: Artist Jordan Casteel on How She Puts Herself Into Her Celebrated Portraits of Everyday People The painter says the real joy of her work is showing her portraits to her subjects. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 20, 2020
Art World Three Enchantingly Painted Houses in the Lost City of Pompeii Are Finally Open to the Public After a 40-Year Restoration Project A $113 million conservation effort rescued the ruins from, well, ruin. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 19, 2020
Art World Attendance Has Always Been a Narrow Way to Define Success. That’s Why This Museum Is Using Data Science to Measure Its Social Impact “We can’t bring a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to the experiences here,” says the director of the Oakland Museum of California. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 19, 2020
Art World For Tearful True Believers, DC’s Obama Portraits Have Become a ‘Secular Pilgrimage’ Destination in the Trump Era A new book captures the surge of interest and energy that took even the National Portrait Gallery by surprise. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 12, 2020
