Art Fairs In Pictures: See Neon Art, Vibrant Landscape Painting, and VIP Visitors at the Opening of Frieze New York 2022 We went to Frieze with a real, non-iPhone camera to capture a sense of the vibe. By Taylor Dafoe, May 18, 2022
Shows & Exhibitions NFT Pioneer Olive Allen Wants to Introduce the Art World to the Metaverse. Her Vision of the Future Looks Nothing Like Zuckerberg’s Her first IRL solo show is on view at Postmasters Gallery in New York. By Taylor Dafoe, May 17, 2022
Auctions This Iconic Man Ray Print Just Became the Most Expensive Photograph Ever Sold at Auction The sale was dedicated to the Surrealism-heavy collection of Rosalind Gersten Jacobs and Melvin Jacobs. By Taylor Dafoe, May 16, 2022
NFTs ‘I Was Reborn’: Artist Takashi Murakami on How NFTs Helped Him See the Art Industry Anew Murakami says that by collecting NFTs, you begin to see "the mystery" of what collecting art is all about. By Taylor Dafoe, May 16, 2022
Galleries Hoping to Lure Big-Ticket Consignments, David Zwirner’s New Online Tool Connects Gallery Experts With Art Owners Looking to Sell Overseeing the digital tool is the gallery’s secondary marketing team, established last year. By Taylor Dafoe, May 12, 2022
Law A Judge Orders Disgraced Art Dealer Douglas Chrismas to Repay $14 Million to Creditors Who Have Been Chasing Him for Years Chrismas also faces up to 15 years in prison on federal charges of embezzlement in a separate, ongoing criminal case. By Taylor Dafoe, May 12, 2022
Politics Russian Forces Have Destroyed Nearly 200 Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Sites, President Zelensky Says The latest site to fall was the historic home of poet-philosopher Hryhorii Skovoroda, razed by a recent artillery strike. By Taylor Dafoe, May 10, 2022
Politics After Hiding Its Prized Collection From Russian Troops, Ukraine’s Largest Art Museum Is Reinstalling It in a Show of Resistance The Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery in western Ukraine has already reopened some of its 18 branches. By Taylor Dafoe, May 9, 2022
Art Fairs Don’t Miss These 7 Show-Stopping Works at TEFAF New York, From an Eight-Figure Marc Chagall to a Lusty Anh Duong Painting Highlights include a pricy—and personal—Marc Chagall, a towering Kehinde Wiley, and Anh Duong paintings so new their paint is still wet. By Taylor Dafoe & Sarah Cascone, May 6, 2022
On View An Off-Ramp, a Trauma Specialist, and Preparedness Pamphlets: How the MFA Boston Reworked Its Philip Guston Retrospective The touring show was controversially delayed for a year. By Taylor Dafoe, May 5, 2022
Museums Under a New Policy, the Smithsonian Will Consider Ethical, Rather Than Legal, Concerns When Faced With Restitution Claims The policy was recommended by a group of Smithsonian curators and historians who quietly convened over six months last year. By Taylor Dafoe, May 4, 2022
Auctions For the Next Two Weeks, Christie’s Will Project Andy Warhol’s Portrait of Marilyn Monroe Onto the Facade of Rockefeller Center The projection is part of an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink marketing campaign around the auction house’s May 9 sale of the painting. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 29, 2022
NFTs The Popular SuperRare NFT Marketplace Is Opening Its First Brick-and-Mortar Pop-Up Gallery in SoHo The gallery will host a rotating program of curated exhibitions, including shows inspired by cyberpunk landscapes and Pride month. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 29, 2022
Politics The Longtime Chief of a Polish Modern Art Museum Has Been Unceremoniously Axed by the Country’s Right-Wing Government His replacement is a local gallerist with no institutional experience who wants to do away with “pro-environmental, gender, and queer art.” By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 28, 2022
Shows & Exhibitions David Adjaye, New Red Order, and 26 Other Artists Will Create Work for a Six-Mile Stretch Along a Main Drag in St. Louis Organizers of the Counterpublic triennial have tasked artists—and viewers—with contemplating the nature of historical inheritance. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 28, 2022
