Art World The ‘New Yorker’ Names Jackson Arn Its New Art Critic, Succeeding the Late Peter Schjeldahl Arn recently reviewed shows by Yayoi Kusama, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Sarah Sze for the magazine. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 11, 2023
Politics Ukraine Has Launched an Online Database That Lists Artworks Owned by Sanctioned Russians The goal of the project is to prevent Russian oligarchs from using art to evade sanctions and launder money. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 9, 2023
Law & Politics President Biden Has Designated One Million Acres of Arizona Land a New National Monument, Protecting the Region from Mining It’s the fifth monument the Biden administration has established since 2021. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 8, 2023
Law & Politics Acclaimed Artist Jeffrey Gibson Is Suing Chicago Dealer Kavi Gupta for Allegedly Withholding More Than $600,000 in Pay The Chicago dealer has denied Gibson’s claims, saying the gallery already paid the money in production expenses. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 8, 2023
Museums & Institutions Activists Call the Rubin Museum’s Funding of a Nepalese Institution a Bid to ‘Divert Attention’ From Stolen Artifacts in Its Own Collection Demonstrators protested the opening of the Rubin-funded museum in a historic Nepalese monastery last month. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 2, 2023
Museums & Institutions The Hermitage Amsterdam Has Settled With a Belgian Magazine That Claimed the Museum Stole Its Brand Identity As part of the agreement, the magazine will adopt a new name this September. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 1, 2023
Crime An Autistic Woman Has Filed a Lawsuit Claiming MoMA Trustee Leon Black Raped Her at Jeffrey Epstein’s Mansion When She Was 16 This is the third lawsuit in the past three years confronting the embattled billionaire with similar allegations. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 1, 2023
Art & Exhibitions Actor Anna Deavere Smith Will Deliver the 2024 Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery of Art in a Novel Format: Performance Smith’s performance is conceived as a sequel to her 2015 piece, “That Which Is Not Me.” By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 31, 2023
Galleries Artist and Activist Jesse Krimes, Whose Work Reflects His Experience While Incarcerated, Has Joined Jack Shainman Krimes also heads the Center for Art and Advocacy, a new non-profit dedicated to mentoring justice-impacted creatives. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 28, 2023
Art & Exhibitions Performa Biennial 2023 Brings Together New Work by Marcel Dzama, Julien Creuzet, and Several Artists Working in the Medium for the First Time Set to run from November 1–19 in New York, the show marks Performa’s 10th biennial since the organization’s founding in 2004. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 28, 2023
People Remembering Amos Badertscher, a Self-Taught Photographer Who Chronicled Baltimore’s Street Heroes Badertscher died this week at age 86. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 27, 2023
Law & Politics President Biden Has Established a New Monument Dedicated to Emmett Till and His Mother Mamie Till-Mobley The monument covers three sites connected to Emmett Till’s death in Mississippi. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 27, 2023
Art & Exhibitions A New Kind of World’s Fair Is Coming to Queens. Its Message? Give Back All Indigenous Land ‘The World’s UnFair,’ as the event is called, was conceived by New Red Order and put on by Creative Time. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 25, 2023
Law & Politics A Judge Green-lit a Virginia Museum’s Plans to Melt Down a Confederate Monument, Dismissing a Lawsuit Attempting to Save It Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee statue was the site of the deadly “Unite the Right” rallies in 2017. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 20, 2023
Art World A Proposed Monument to Shirley Chisholm, the First Black Woman Elected to Congress, Has Finally Been Approved in New York Announced in 2018, the planned statue was delayed by the pandemic and a change in mayoral administrations. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 20, 2023