Exhibitions Good Wall Painting: Filmmaker Gus Van Sant Will Debut a Series of New Paintings at Vito Schnabel’s Gallery This Fall It’s Van Sant’s first New York solo show. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 6, 2019
Politics New York City Told Its Museums to Diversify or Lose Funding. Here’s How They Plan to Address the Problem Recent studies show that museums are falling short on diversity in several key ways. By Taylor Dafoe & Brian Boucher, Aug 6, 2019
Politics Facing Public Threats Over a Sculpture, Japan’s Aichi Triennale Censors Its Own Exhibition About Censorship Organizers received threats over a sculpture of one of the thousands of "comfort women" forced into sexual slavery during World War II. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 5, 2019
Politics New York Sets Aside $212 Million for Next Year’s Cultural Budget—Another Record for the City The city also announced a new, streamlined version of its ambitious CreateNYC cultural initiative. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 1, 2019
Art and Law A Street Artist Is Suing Walmart and Ellen DeGeneres for Allegedly Stealing His Signature Heart Logo A clothing line released by the company this year prominently features a design that looks suspiciously similar to the artist’s own. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 31, 2019
Politics Congress Is Investigating a For-Profit Education Company Accused of Scamming Art Students (With the Trump Administration’s Help) When the schools lost their accreditation, they didn't tell students. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 30, 2019
People ‘We Need to Tell a Different Story’: Why Tamir Rice’s Mother Samaria Is Collaborating With Contemporary Artists to Honor Her Son’s Legacy With the help of artist and activist Amanda D. King, Rice is at work creating the Tamir Rice Afrocentric Cultural Center in Cleveland. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 30, 2019
Art World A Family Found a Long-Forgotten Portrait of Their Mother at Home. It Turns Out It’s by One of Africa’s Most Famous Artists This isn't the first time a lucky family has found a work by Ben Enwonwu in their home. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 29, 2019
On View Inside One Photographer’s Quest to Infiltrate Bohemian Grove, the Secret Annual Gathering of America’s Most Powerful Men The near-mythical annual meeting has fascinated conspiracy theorists for years—and is the subject of a new book. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 26, 2019
Art Fairs The Independent Art Fair Is Closing Down Its Brussels Edition, Citing a Weak Local Market and Cramped Calendar The fair struggled with finding the right timing and venue. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 25, 2019
People Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio Have Been Making Ceramics Together Late Into the Night at Pitt’s Sculpture Studio The “Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood” co-stars have been bonding over sandwiches and sculpture. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 24, 2019
Art World Asian Art Advocates Accuse the Shed of ‘Yellow-Face Casting’ in Its Kung-Fu Musical. But Its Director Says the Character Is Actually White Advocacy groups wrote a letter calling the "Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise" casting "offensive and unacceptable." By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 24, 2019
Art World Street Art Pioneer Fab 5 Freddy Looks to Renaissance Art for Lessons About Race in His New BBC Film—and Rides a Horse While Doing It Fab 5 Freddy opens up about his childhood, his love of museums, and his friendship with Basquiat for the BBC. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 22, 2019
Art World Amid the Rise of Italy’s Far Right, Curator Francesco Bonami Has Founded His Own Satirical Italian-Art-First Political Party Bonami’s EXAGERAMOS! party will ban all non-Italian artists from participating in the Venice Biennale, among other edicts. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 19, 2019
People How Does a Gallery Stay in Business for 35 Years? Lisa Spellman on 303 Gallery’s Staying Power and the Hardest Part of Being a Dealer The gallerist opens up about losing artists, accommodating selfie-takers, and that one time she found someone living inside a video installation. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 19, 2019
