Art World A Vandal Used Spray Paint to Compare Jeff Koons’s Controversial Paris Sculpture to 11 Anuses, and It’s Hard to Un-See Many French find the work a little too suggestive. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 11, 2019
Art World When Researchers Dated Spanish Cave Art to the Neanderthals, It Altered Our Understanding of Evolution. Did They Make a Mistake? An international group of scientists have published a critique of controversial cave art study. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 8, 2019
Art World A Las Vegas Nightclub Full of Damien Hirst’s Art Opened Seven Months Ago. Now It’s Already Closing A Hirst-designed suite at the hotel cost upwards of $200,000 for two nights. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 8, 2019
Art World As Art Institutions Race to Expand in China, Beijing’s UCCA Museum Announces Plans to Build a Shanghai Satellite The Chinese city is in the midst of a museum boom. By Naomi Rea & Taylor Dafoe, Nov 7, 2019
Law & Politics Los Angeles Police Have Recovered $800,000 Worth of Missing Scottish Spiritual Art From a Private Home, Ending a Seven-Year Mystery But roughly 974 works remain to be found. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 7, 2019
Art World A Group of Middle Eastern Artists Was Denied Entry to the US to Attend the Opening of Their Own MoMA PS1 Show Many other artists didn’t even try to obtain visas for the opening. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 6, 2019
People Finally, Strokes Drummer Fabrizio Moretti and Art Dealer Fabrizio Moretti Are Teaming Up—on an Old Masters Show at Sotheby’s The two Morettis partnered to stage a show of 20 Old Master works. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 6, 2019
People The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow Has Hired Former Stedelijk Director Beatrix Ruf Ruf, who left her previous job amid controversy in 2017, will work in a "senior capacity on strategy and development." By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 5, 2019
Art & Exhibitions Legendary Curator Okwui Enwezor’s Final Show, ‘Postcolonial,’ Will Now Become a Reality in Sharjah The curator planned a sequel to his legendary “Postwar” exhibition as part of the next Sharjah Biennial. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 4, 2019
People The Clyfford Still Museum Uncovered a Trove of the Artist’s Tapes. Here Is What They Teach Us About One of History’s Most Private Painters The previously unknown recordings are the subject of “Lifeline: Clyfford Still,” a documentary that debuts in New York next week. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 4, 2019
Politics Christie’s Asks to Be Excluded From Trump’s Tariffs on Chinese Imports, Claiming It Would Cause a ‘Significant Loss’ to Its Business The auction house was among the first companies to seek relief from a 15 percent tax on art and antiques in China. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 1, 2019
Auctions This Bronze Sculpture Touted as a Leonardo da Vinci Was Supposed to Fetch $50 Million at Auction. Instead, It Flopped With Zero Bids The sculpture, a bronze cast of a beeswax model, has been the subject of much speculation in scholarship circles. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 31, 2019
People Doris Salcedo, Whose Haunting Work Bears Witness to Dark Histories, Is the First Winner of a New $1 Million Japanese Art Prize Salcedo will use the $1 million Nomura Art Award to create a new work. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 31, 2019
Politics Pakistani Authorities Shut Down a Show in the Karachi Biennial That Criticized the Government’s Extrajudicial Killings Adeela Sulemen's work was destroyed and called “vandalism.” By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 30, 2019
Art World Easter Island, Notre Dame, and Bears Ears Are Among the World’s Most Threatened Heritage Sites, the World Monuments Fund Says The 25 landmarks will be eligible for $1.6 million in conservation funds starting next year. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 29, 2019