Art World When Magnum Photos’s Fabled Archive Went Online, It Opened Pandora’s Box. What Happens When Sensitive Images Fall Into the Wrong Hands? The famous photo agency has had to confront big questions about the role of its storied archive in the photo industry today. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 10, 2021
Law A Battle in the Legal War Over Robert Indiana’s Legacy Ends as His Estate Settles With the Artist’s Longtime Representative But Indiana's estate is still in a fight with a publisher accused of manipulating the artist prior to his death. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 8, 2021
Law Harvard Can Keep Daguerreotypes Depicting Enslaved Africans, Despite Objections From One of the Subject’s Ancestors, a Court Has Ruled The photos belonged to the photographer, not the subjects, the judge ruled. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 5, 2021
Market South Korean Art Organizations Are Scrambling to Keep the Heirs of the Samsung Art Collection From Selling It Off to International Buyers The heirs are considering selling the collection to pay off their $9.7 billion tax bill. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 5, 2021
Law Dissenting Artists Around the Globe Were Jailed and Killed at an Alarming Rate Last Year, According to a New Report The survey found that governments may be using the pandemic as a pretense to crack down on artists. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 3, 2021
Politics A Black Design Collective Will Temporarily Obscure Architect and Nazi Sympathizer Philip Johnson’s Name From a Gallery at MoMA The Black Reconstruction Collective will cover Johnson's name with a 10-by-10 foot textile bearing its manifesto. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 2, 2021
Law Joe Biden Has Revoked Trump’s Executive Order Mandating Classical-Only Architecture for Federal Buildings, Restoring ‘Freedom of Design’ The "Make Federal Buildings Beautiful Again" order is no more. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 26, 2021
Art World Former Tate Boss Nick Serota Says the Louvre’s Renovation of a Gallery Featuring a Site-Specific Work by Cy Twombly Is an ‘Affront’ The artist's foundation is threatening to sue the museum for redecorating the space. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 23, 2021
Shows & Exhibitions A Louisville Museum Is Staging a Show About Breonna Taylor With Help From Amy Sherald and Theaster Gates Taylor, a Louisville native, died nearly a year ago. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 23, 2021
Auctions Paintings of King Charles Spaniels and Other Treasures From the Estate of John McCain’s Late Mother Sold for Nearly $100,000 at Auction Roberta McCain, who died at age 108 last year, was an avid collector of objects both expensive and cheap. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 22, 2021
Law No Longer Able to Easily Work in Europe, UK Artists Are Urging Boris Johnson to Renegotiate Brexit Terms to Allow for Visa-Free Travel British artists are now having a harder time getting work in Europe. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 18, 2021
On View In a Disturbing and Exceptional New Survey, the American Folk Art Museum Is Defining a New Genre: Outsider Photography "Photo Brut" includes some 400 works from the collection of French filmmaker Bruno Decharme. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 17, 2021
Law A French Court Has Ordered a Far-Right Mayor to Close the Local Museums He Opened Last Week in Defiance of the National Lockdown Perpignan mayor Louis Aliot cannot act outside of the national lockdown decree, the court ruled. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 16, 2021
Art World Hollywood Has the ‘Black List’ for Undiscovered Screenplays. Now, Photography Has a ‘Silver List’ for Up-and-Coming Photographers Some 125 critics, curators, publishers, and academics compiled the list of names to watch. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 15, 2021
Art World Klaus Biesenbach Will Become Artistic Director at MOCA LA, While the Board Brings on a New Executive Director to Steer Finances Biesenbach and the incoming director will split leadership duties at the museum moving forward. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 12, 2021
