Art Fairs Future Fair Debuts in New York With an Experimental Co-Op Model—and Dealers Say It Has Delivered Going on now through Sunday, Future Fair operates like a co-op, sharing profits with participating galleries. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 10, 2021
Auctions Just Two Bored Ape NFT Lots Brought in a Combined $26 Million at Sotheby’s This Week, a New Crypto-Art Record for the Auction House A lot of 101 apes, plus six “mutant serums,” scored $24 million alone. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 10, 2021
Politics Steve Bannon’s School for Far-Right ‘Gladiators’ Has Officially Been Evicted From Its Home in an 800-Year-Old Italian Monastery Benjamin Harnwell, Bannon’s business partner, plans to appeal the move. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 9, 2021
People Fifteen Years Ago, Keltie Ferris Was Peter Halley’s Student. The Artists, Now Friends, Sat Down to Talk Shop as They Debut New Work The painters are showing their latest abstract paintings at the Independent art fair this week. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 8, 2021
Law & Politics The Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee Is Demanding Hunter Biden’s Art Dealer Make the Artist’s Sales Public Hunter's career is "insulting to the art ecosystem," said Representative James Comer, quoting art advisor Lisa Schiff. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 8, 2021
Pop Culture ‘I Want People to Have Strong Reactions’: Director Cheryl Dunn on Her Documentary About Enfant Terrible Artist Dash Snow 'Moments Like This Never Last' features never-before-seen footage of the mid-2000s New York scene. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 7, 2021
Art World Pedro Reyes Is Designing a Monument to Indigenous Women in Mexico City That Will Replace a 150-Year-Old Christopher Columbus Statue “If someone can teach us how to take care of this planet, it is our native peoples," Reyes said. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 7, 2021
Museums & Institutions L.A. MOCA Names Johanna Burton Executive Director, Creating a New Position That Splits Duties With Klaus Biesenbach The museum hopes to turn the page on its track record of embattled leadership in recent years. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 2, 2021
Art World Artist Theaster Gates Is Partnering With Prada to Launch an Incubator for Emerging Designers of Color in Chicago The first fellows of the Dorchester Industries Experimental Design Lab will be announced next month. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 2, 2021
Art World Sculptures by Kehinde Wiley, Alison Saar, and Others Will Go Up Along L.A.’s Crenshaw Boulevard as Part of a $100 Million Public Art Initiative The artworks belong to Destination Crenshaw, which is commissioning 100 works of art over the next six years. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 1, 2021
Museums & Institutions The Guggenheim Bilbao Just Dropped a Rap Video to Raise Funds to Repair Its Jeff Koons Puppy Sculpture and It’s… Well, Judge for Yourself “It’s the ‘P’ with the ‘U’ with the ‘P’ with the ‘P’ with the ‘Y.’ So please don’t kill my vibe,” goes the song by Bilbao's M.C. Gransan. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 31, 2021
Pop Culture It Turns Out Damien Hirst Is Behind the Totally Bizarre (and Suggestive) Cover Art for Drake’s New Album Twitter users reacted with wild speculations and armchair art analyses. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 31, 2021
Art World The Bank of England Has Removed 10 Portraits Depicting Former Directors Connected to the Slave Trade Eight oil paintings and two busts were taken down from view after a year-long internal review. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 30, 2021
Pop Culture The Former Baby From Nirvana’s Famous Album Cover Was Motivated to Sue After the Band Blew Off His Art Show Spencer Elden, now a painter, alleges that the band exploited him as a minor. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 25, 2021
Market Visa Bought a $150,000 Crypto Punk for Its Corporate Collection—and Immediately Triggered an NFT Market Rush The company says it made the purchase to get firsthand experience in a field it soon hopes to advise its clients in. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 24, 2021