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
Politics Washington Lawmakers Take a Step Toward Establishing a New D.C. Museum Dedicated to Asian Pacific American History The House of Representatives has passed a bill to study the museum's feasibility. Now, it heads to the Senate. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 27, 2022
Auctions Christie’s Is Sending a Hologram of a $20 Million Edgar Degas Ballerina on a World Tour to Avoid the Cost and Complexity of Shipping Is this the future of auction-house previews? By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 25, 2022
NFTs David Cronenberg, the Master of Body Horror Films, Is Selling His Passed Kidney Stones as an NFT The project precedes the release of his newest film, about a performance artist who surgically removes his own organs in public. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 22, 2022
Law The U.S. Supreme Court Just Sent a Winding International Restitution Case Down to a State Court in California The case will now be sent back to a California appeals court to be readjudicated. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 21, 2022
On View A New Retrospective Reveals Photographer Imogen Cunningham’s Masterful Range—and How It Hurt Her Career On view now at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the show spans six decades of the artist's career. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 21, 2022
Art World With Their Art Delayed by War in Ukraine, Kazakhstan Pavilion Artists Cobble Together an Improvised Presentation The art collective representing the country, ORTA, is building an ad-hoc set for performances with local materials. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 19, 2022
People Hermann Nitsch, the Provocative Austrian Actionist Known For Using Blood and Animal Carcasses in His Work, Has Died at 83 One of the artist’s seminal “Actions” just went on view as part of the Venice Biennale. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 19, 2022
Art World A Painting of Half-Eaten Pie Gathering Dust in an Australian School Turns Out to Be a Dutch Masterpiece Worth Millions Dutch painter Gerrit Willemsz Heda created the artwork; his famous father may have helped, too. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 18, 2022
Museums A Performance Artist Kissed Ancient Objects at a Mexican Museum to Protest the Selling of Looted Artifacts Abroad Pepx Romero's actions went unnoticed by museum security staff. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 15, 2022
On View Figuration Is the Art of Our Era for a Simple Reason: Because Artists Are Painting ‘What They Love’ A new show at the ICA in Boston brings together eight young artists who are making new inroads into the dominant genre of today. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 12, 2022
Art World A Man Pulled Some Unusual Art From a Dumpster, Thinking It’d Be Fun for Halloween Decor. It May Actually Be Worth a Scary Amount It turns out the works were created by Francis Hines, a now-deceased Abstract Expressionist known for wrapping objects in fabric. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 11, 2022
Law A Judge Has Ruled in Favor of Miami Beach After the City Removed an Artwork Memorializing a Man Gunned Down by Police The city’s censoring of the commissioned mural constituted protected “government speech,” the judge concluded. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 7, 2022
People Donald Baechler, New York Artist Known for His Cerebral Approach to Simplistic Imagery, Has Died at 65 The cause was cardiac arrest, his gallery confirmed. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 6, 2022
Auctions An Invisible Artwork by Yves Klein Just Sold for More Than $1 Million at Sotheby’s The winning bidder scored a receipt for a “zone of empty space,” created by Klein in 1959. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 6, 2022
