Art World Mail Art, a Quirky Pursuit That Hasn’t Been Popular Since the ’60s, Is Suddenly Having a Renaissance Amid the Worldwide Lockdown The beauty of all the mail art initiatives that have sprung up in the past few months is that anyone and everyone can partake. By Taylor Dafoe, May 1, 2020
Market Christie’s Literally Wants to Offer You the Moon With the Sale of a $2.5 Million Chunk of Lunar Meteorite The 30-pound moonrock fell to earth in the Sahara desert. By Taylor Dafoe, May 1, 2020
Art World The Governor of Texas Told Museums They Can Legally Reopen This Week. Texas Museums Said: No Thanks Museum across the state are still planning how they will safely resume operations. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 29, 2020
Art World With a Slimmed Down Educational Program, the San Francisco Art Institute Will Stay Open After All The 149-year-old school will cancel its degree programs but offer public education courses in their place. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 28, 2020
Art World ‘He’s a Psycho. He’s a Monster’: A New Documentary on Jordan Wolfson Paints a Dark Portrait of the Art World’s Enfant Terrible The film “Spit Earth: Who is Jordan Wolfson?” debuts online this week. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 28, 2020
People Zarina, the Indian Artist Who Chronicled Her Peripatetic Lifestyle in Delicate Prints, Has Died at 83 The artist passed away after a long illness Saturday in London. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 27, 2020
Art World An Art Collective Bought a $30,000 Damien Hirst Spot Print and Cut It Up. Now, They’re Selling the Spots for $480 a Pop “Maybe we don’t need more zombie wallworks, we just need to distribute the ones we’ve got!” reads the collective’s manifesto. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 27, 2020
Art World Nearly Two-Thirds of Artists in the United States Have Lost Their Livelihoods as a Result of the Coronavirus, a New Survey Says On average, artists have lost $24,000 in wages. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 24, 2020
Art World The Hirshhorn Museum Is Collecting Famous Artists’ Video Diaries About Their Lives in Isolation. Watch 5 of Them Here Watch the videos here. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 23, 2020
Art World ‘I’m Just Trying Not to Avert My Eyes’: How Rashid Johnson, George Condo, and Other Artists Are Taking on the Pandemic in Their Work How do you document history as it unfolds? By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 23, 2020
Auctions After Going Digital, Sotheby’s ‘Contemporary Curated’ Sale Brought in $6.4 Million—an Online Auction Record for the Company It was also the biggest London edition of the sale ever, live or online. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 22, 2020
Art World A UK Museum Challenged Bored Curators Worldwide to Share the Creepiest Objects in Their Collections. Things Got Really Weird, Fast Why would anyone own these things? By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 20, 2020
Politics Bill de Blasio’s 2021 Budget Would See a Significant Decrease in Funding for New York’s Museums, Already Hit Hard by the Lockdown Still, the cuts may not be as deep as some feared. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 20, 2020
Art World The 1918 Spanish Flu Wreaked Havoc on Nearly Every Country on Earth. So Why Didn’t More Artists Respond to It in Their Work? There are few obvious depictions of the disease, despite its devastating worldwide toll. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 16, 2020
Art World In a Major Shift, US Museums Will Now Be Allowed to Use Restricted Funds to Keep the Lights On in Order to Survive the Economic Crisis The association will now allow institutions to use previously restricted funds to pay for staff and everyday operations. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 16, 2020