Art & Exhibitions What If an Artist Were Your History Teacher? A New Photography Exhibition at the Guggenheim Questions How We Depict the Past "Off the Record" is curator Ashley James's first show at the museum. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 19, 2021
Auctions Robert Colescott’s Caustic Satire of ‘Washington Crossing the Delaware’ Is Poised to Reset the Artist’s Market at Sotheby’s Next Month Estimated to go for $9 million to $12 million, the painting is expected to smash the artist’s current auction record of $912,500. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 16, 2021
Art & Exhibitions Dia Chelsea’s Deft Expansion May Start a New Trend in the World of Museum Renovations: Subtlety After two years of construction, Dia reopened the site this week with an exhibition of new works by artist Lucy Raven. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 16, 2021
Law & Politics A Former Samsung Chairman’s Multibillion-Dollar Art Collection May Be Donated to South Korea’s Museums, Avoiding an International Sell-Off Cultural officials previously feared that the chairman’s heirs might sell the collection abroad to pay their inheritance tax. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 15, 2021
Art & Exhibitions The Late Artist Matthew Wong Made an Ink Drawing Every Morning. For the First Time, Two Dozen Will Go on View in New York Made between 2013 and 2017, the drawings will debut at an exhibition at Cheim & Read in Chelsea. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 14, 2021
Museums & Institutions The University of Pennsylvania Will Restitute a Group of Human Skulls Once Used to Propagate White Supremacist Theories Some 1,300 skulls are included in the Penn Museum’s Morton Collection, named after the Philadelphia physician who amassed them. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 13, 2021
Law & Politics The Tel Aviv Museum of Art Will Restitute Two 17th-Century Tapestries of Moses Looted by the Nazis in the 1930s The artworks were taken from a German-Jewish family that ran a prominent liberal newspaper. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 12, 2021
Pop Culture The Art Collective That Nike Sued for Pouring Human Blood on Its Sneakers Has Agreed to Recall the Shoes The group's lawyer says the shoes were intended as a comment on "collaboration culture." By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 9, 2021
Auctions Christie’s Will Offer 9 Multimillion-Dollar NFT CryptoPunks in Its May Evening Auction. Here’s What That Means The digital collectibles include a rare alien punk. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 9, 2021
People Cory Arcangel’s Latest Artwork Is a Kim Kardashian-Themed Video Game. What Does It Mean? Don’t Ask Him Arcangel says talking about his artistic intentions is hard. We asked him about them anyway. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 9, 2021
Law & Politics This Painting Was About to Hit the Auction Block in Spain for Just $1,780. Then Experts Discovered It Might Be a Caravaggio Worth Millions Spain's culture ministry implemented an export ban on the painting to halt the sale. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 8, 2021
Art World Fabergé and HBO Are Marking the 10th Anniversary of ‘Game of Thrones’ With a One-of-a-Kind Egg. You Won’t Believe the Price You could spend your money on this, if you wanted to. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 7, 2021
Auctions Following Public Pressure, eBay Has Cancelled a Sale of Wartime Drawings Reportedly Made by an Artist in a U.S. Japanese Internment Camp A number of organizations wrote to the auction house saying they objected to "profiteering off the oppression of Japanese Americans." By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 7, 2021
Art World The Getty Has Partnered With the City of Los Angeles to Identify and Preserve Landmarks Related to Black History Currently, just over three percent of the city’s roughly 1,200 historic landmarks are tied to African American heritage. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 6, 2021
Law & Politics The Met Wins a Case Against a Photographer Who Claims It Posted His Image of Eddie Van Halen Online Without Permission At the center of the case is a 1982 image of Van Halen performing in concert. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 5, 2021