Politics Dozens of US War Veterans Are Urging MoMA to Reject ‘Toxic Philanthropy’ From Investors in Private Military Companies Their letter was sent in solidarity with artists who have asked the institution to cut ties with controversial board members. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 4, 2020
Politics After a Backlash, Nashville’s Belmont University Says It Will Let Non-Christian Art Professors Teach After All Watkins College of Art, which is being absorbed, was originally told that Belmont had a firm no non-Christians policy. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 4, 2020
Law & Politics Billionaire Steven Tananbaum Settles With Gagosian, Ending a Bitter Lawsuit Over Three Long-Delayed Jeff Koons Sculptures The saga of one of the art world's most high-profile lawsuits has finally ended. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 3, 2020
People Jim Carrey Says the Political Phase of His Art Career Is Over. Now He’s On to Painting Mangoes “We got tricked by politicians and weird corporate concerns to believe that disagreement is hatred,” the actor-artist said. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 31, 2020
Law & Politics A Hacker Posing as a Venerable British Art Dealer Swindled a Dutch Museum Out of $3.1 Million The museum sued the dealer in a London court. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 30, 2020
People Why Art Influencer JiaJia Fei Is Leaving the Museum World to Found the ‘First Digital Media Agency for Art’ “After more than a decade of working in museums as a problem solver, it was time to go out and find new problems to solve," says Fei. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 30, 2020
People ‘I’m Not Really Addressing the Fine-Art Audience’: How Rising-Star Artist Tyler Mitchell Became One of World’s Most In-Demand Photographers The exhibition at the International Center of Photography emphasizes the collapse of old cultural barriers. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 29, 2020
Art World Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fabled School of Architecture Will Abruptly Close After Training Rising Architects for Nearly 90 Years The school will cease operations after failing to reach an agreement with the architect's foundation. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 29, 2020
Art World Hong Kong Quickly Shutters Its Museums and Public Spaces to Stop the Spread of the Deadly Coronavirus The pandemic casts a further shadow over Art Basel Hong Kong, which was already facing a slew of problems. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 28, 2020
Politics Yale Is Eliminating Its Art History Survey Course Over Complaints That It Prioritizes a White, Western Canon Over Other Narratives The news has caused an uproar among conservatives online. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 27, 2020
People ‘There Is No Sense of Privacy Anymore’: After Kim Gordon’s Personal Life Went Public, She Decided to Tackle Surveillance in Her Art The former Sonic Youth bassist's new show is on view now at 303 Gallery in New York. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 24, 2020
Art & Exhibitions The Obama Presidential Portraits, Which Smashed Attendance Records in DC, Will Travel the US on a Five-Museum Tour The National Portrait Gallery's director credits Brooklyn Museum's Anne Pasternak for floating the idea. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 23, 2020
Politics The US–China Trade Agreement Has Been Hailed as a Boon for Business—But Buyers Will Still Have to Pay Steep Tariffs on Chinese Art Despite a cut in the tariff rate, import taxes on art remain high. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 23, 2020
Art & Exhibitions The ‘Mad Genius’ Painter Noah Davis Died at Just 32. Now David Zwirner Gallery Is Doing Its Best to Make Him a Legend Curated by Helen Molesworth, the show brings together Davis's painting with a room modeled on the Underground Museum he founded in LA. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 22, 2020
Art World A Lamb in the Newly Restored Ghent Altarpiece Is Going Viral Because the Internet Thinks It Looks Like Zoolander This humanoid lamb is freaking everyone out. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 22, 2020