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
Art & 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 & Institutions 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 & Institutions 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 & Institutions 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
Art & Exhibitions Celebrated Photographer Deana Lawson Takes an Unexpected Turn in Her New Guggenheim Show—and It Involves Holograms Lawson’s Hugo Boss Prize show is on view now at the Guggenheim. By Taylor Dafoe, May 31, 2021
Art History Now You Can View the Complete Archives of Beloved Painter Charles White Online Thanks to the Smithsonian Family photographs, high school report cards, and more than 17,000 other objects have been digitized. By Taylor Dafoe, May 31, 2021