Art World Ai Weiwei, Celebs, and a Live Hawk: Leonardo DiCaprio Will Host a Zero-Waste Art Auction to Raise Money for Wildlife Wayne Thiebaud will receive the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation’s inaugural Art and Environment Award By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 12, 2018
Art World See How This Photographer Recreated Erotic Works by Rodin, Schiele, and Picasso With Live Models When is an image pornography and when is it art? By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 7, 2018
Art World See the First Trailer for ‘The Price of Everything,’ HBO’s New Documentary About the High-Flying Art Market “There’s a lot of people who know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 31, 2018
Art World This Giant Sculpture of a Child in a Hazmat Suit Was Meant to Inspire Hope—Then People Got Creeped Out After backlash, the city of Fukushima has decided to remove Kenji Yanobe's towering public sculpture. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 30, 2018
Art World Artist Simone Leigh Will Create a Towering Bust for the High Line’s First Plinth Commission Leigh’s work, a 16-foot-tall bronze sculpture, will overlook a corner in Chelsea next spring. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 29, 2018
Art World Meet Artmyn, the Swiss Super-Scanner That Allows You to See Artworks That Would Otherwise Crumble Into Dust The company is one of many trying to crack the online art market. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 21, 2018
Art World The Actor Who Played Robocop Is Now an Art Historian, and He’s Returning to Detroit to Face a New Threat: ‘The Crisis of Beauty’ Actor and art historian Peter Weller is participating in this fall's Culture Lab Detroit conference with Amy Sherald, Anicka Yi, and others. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 14, 2018
Art World The Hirshhorn Museum Acquires Tino Sehgal’s ‘This You,’ Its First-Ever Performance Artwork The work posed many tricky questions for the institution and its staff. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 9, 2018
Art World An Australian TV Show Turned Regular People Into Art Critics. What They Had to Say was Funny, Moving, and Sometimes Profound “Everyone’s a Critic” takes a diverse cast of people and puts them in front of a variety of artworks at Australia's biggest museums. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 8, 2018
On View At the Whitney, Alt-Fashion Icons Eckhaus Latta Revolutionize the Way Museums Exhibit Couture Part interactive art show, part retail boutique, “Eckhaus Latta: Possessed” is the first fashion-related exhibition at the museum in 21 years. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 7, 2018
Art World El Anatsui Will Use a Humongous Sheet of Bottle Caps to Drape a Whole Museum for the Carnegie International This Fall Tavares Strachan, Park McArthur, and Mimi Cherono Ng'ok will also contribute site-specific works. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 1, 2018
Art World Trump’s State Department Has Yet to Pick a US Representative for the Venice Biennale. Artist Justin Lieberman Has a Suggestion Lieberman has launched a petition stating that famed realist painter Jon McNaughton “must represent America in Venice Biennale.” By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 27, 2018
On View The Visual Arts Arm of the Talent Agency UTA Moves Into a New Ai Weiwei-Designed Space in Beverly Hills After just two years in Boyle Heights, the exhibition space moves to a 4,000 square foot factory located 200 yards from UTA's headquarters. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 13, 2018
On View For His Latest Series, Ryan McGinley Handed His Subjects a Camera to Take Their Own High-Concept Nude Selfies For “Mirror, Mirror,” on view now at Team Gallery, the artist provided friends with cameras and mirrors and asked them to take the photos. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 9, 2018
On View How Sculptor Angela de la Cruz Uses Twisted Metal to Explore the Vulnerability of the Body at Lisson Gallery In a new video, the gallery offers insight into “Bare,” de la Cruz’s new show on view now in London. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 5, 2018
