Politics Nan Goldin, Kara Walker, and the DIS Art Collective Are Among the Hundreds of Cultural Figures Endorsing Bernie Sanders for US President More than 665 artists have signed a new open letter in support of Sanders. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 24, 2020
Market Sotheby’s Will Hold Its Closely Watched Spring Hong Kong Art Auctions in New York as the Coronavirus Epidemic Rages On The auction house will stage the auctions this April in New York. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 24, 2020
Law & Politics The Met Just Returned a Prized Silver Cup, Stolen by a Nazi Art Dealer, to Its Rightful Heirs After Almost 80 Years The object was taken from a German-born Jewish banker before he and his wife were murdered at concentration camps. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 21, 2020
Art World The Bumbling Thieves Who Stole an Enormous $4.3 Million Gold Coin From a Berlin Museum—and Probably Melted It Down—Are Heading to Prison The high-profile heist involved a skateboard and a wheelbarrow. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 21, 2020
Art World High-Tech Radar May Have Just Led Researchers to Discover Nefertiti’s Secret Burial Chamber in King Tut’s Tomb If true, “it could be the biggest archaeological discovery ever." By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 20, 2020
People ‘When I See These Paintings, I See Myself’: Artist Jordan Casteel on How She Puts Herself Into Her Celebrated Portraits of Everyday People The painter says the real joy of her work is showing her portraits to her subjects. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 20, 2020
Art World Three Enchantingly Painted Houses in the Lost City of Pompeii Are Finally Open to the Public After a 40-Year Restoration Project A $113 million conservation effort rescued the ruins from, well, ruin. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 19, 2020
Art World Attendance Has Always Been a Narrow Way to Define Success. That’s Why This Museum Is Using Data Science to Measure Its Social Impact “We can’t bring a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to the experiences here,” says the director of the Oakland Museum of California. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 19, 2020
Art World For Tearful True Believers, DC’s Obama Portraits Have Become a ‘Secular Pilgrimage’ Destination in the Trump Era A new book captures the surge of interest and energy that took even the National Portrait Gallery by surprise. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 12, 2020
Art World Wes Anderson’s New Art History-Inspired Film Stars Adrien Brody as a Ruthless Art Dealer Brody's character was based on legendary British dealer Joseph Duveen. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 12, 2020
Politics Malaysian Artists Cry Foul as the National Gallery in Kuala Lumpur Censors Four Artworks for Their Political Content The works were removed from an artist's mid-career survey after a museum board member complained. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 11, 2020
Art World A Small Pennsylvania Museum Just Discovered It Has Owned a Rembrandt for 70 Years Without Knowing It New conservation techniques revealed the painting's actual artist. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 10, 2020
Politics We Talked to the Sketch Artists Who Captured the Only Images of Trump’s Impeachment Trial, Where Cameras Were Banned See some of their most compelling images, including screaming protestors, grandstanding lawyers, and Mitt Romney's chocolate milk. By Taylor Dafoe & Eileen Kinsella, Feb 7, 2020
Art World Painter Julie Curtiss, the Art World’s Newly Anointed Market Darling, Will Be Represented by White Cube The London-based gallery will share representation of the artist with New York dealer Anton Kern. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 6, 2020
People Artist Beverly Pepper, Who Long Rejected Critics’ Attempts to Define Her Brawny Sculptures, Has Died at 97 The Brooklyn-born artist died in her adopted hometown of Todi, Italy. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 5, 2020