Art World Simone Leigh, Glenn Ligon, and Five Other Artists Will Create New Works About the Future of Monuments for Prospect New Orleans The works will be funded by a $2 million grant from the Mellon Foundation. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 9, 2021
Art & Exhibitions A New Show of Leo Steinberg’s Print Collection Reveals the Critic’s Deep Appreciation for the Medium’s ‘Circulating Lifeblood of Ideas’ “After Michelangelo, Past Picasso: Leo Steinberg’s Library of Prints” is on view now at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 8, 2021
On View The Brilliant Quilt Artist Rosie Lee Tompkins’s Patron Donated Hundreds of Her Works to One Museum. Did His Generosity Hurt Her Legacy? Shows of Tompkins’s virtuosic artworks are up now at BAMPFA and Anthony Meier Fine Arts. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 5, 2021
Art World Xaviera Simmons, Nan Goldin, and 150 Other Artists and Activists Are Urging MoMA to Ax Board Chairman Leon Black The signatories of a petition want MoMA to part ways with Black over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 5, 2021
Law & Politics Artist Nick Cave Just Won a Bizarre Legal Fight Over Whether His Political Mural in a New York Village Is Actually Art. (It Is) The town's board unanimously ruled that Cave’s text installation is indeed an artwork. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 4, 2021
Art World 100 French Museum Leaders Call on Authorities to Allow Them to Reopen, Claiming They’re ‘Necessary for Mental Well-Being’ The projected reopening date for museums has now been moved three times. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 3, 2021
Art World For the First Time Ever, Anyone Can Buy a Gee’s Bend Quilt Online, Thanks to a New Partnership With Etsy The famed Alabama craftswomen are selling everything from $15 face masks to $6,000 quilts. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 1, 2021
Auctions A Deep-Pocketed Art Collector Just Dropped More Than $92 Million at Sotheby’s on This Pristine Botticelli Portrait The artwork is one of only three by the artist that remain in private hands. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 28, 2021
Art Fairs The Independent Art Fair in New York Will Move to a New Downtown Cipriani and Have a Refreshed Format for Its 2021 Edition The 12th edition of the fair is set to take place in September. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 27, 2021
Law & Politics Landlords in a Tony Hamptons Town Must Fill Their Empty Storefronts With Works by Local Artists—Or Else Pay a Fine Southampton's mayor proposed the initiative, which is now a law, last summer. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 25, 2021
Crime An Art Dealer in Milan Has Been Convicted of Trying to Sell a Forged Josef Albers Painting The director of the Josef Albers Foundation deemed the painting a fake in 2016. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 20, 2021
Art World Rhizome Is Partnering With Hyundai on a Series of Ambitious New-Media Exhibitions Over the Next Two Years A group show of augmented reality, virtual reality, and artificial-intelligence art will kick off the partnership later this month. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 20, 2021
Politics New York Mayoral Candidate Andrew Yang Has a Plan to Boost the City’s Art Community: Subsidize TikTok Hype Houses He also promises an aggressive plan to put light shows on monuments. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 15, 2021
Art World Hank Willis Thomas’s Poignant Memorial to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King Will Be Unveiled in Boston Next Fall The 22-foot-tall bronze monument depicts the couple mid-embrace. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 15, 2021
Law & Politics Artist Nick Cave’s Controversial Upstate New York Artwork Has Found a New Home at the Brooklyn Museum The public artwork has been attacked by the mayor of a small town where it was installed. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 15, 2021