NFTs Reddit Launched Its Own NFT Marketplace in July. It Already Has More Users Than OpenSea and Other Major Platforms Three million users have created Reddit Vaults—the company’s name for a blockchain wallet—since the service was created a few months ago. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 26, 2022
Museums Yale University Art Gallery Refused to Display a Tribal Elder’s Offering in a New Show. Not Everyone Agrees With the Decision The museum says its decision was made out of sensitivity to the local tribes and tribal lands that the college is on. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 25, 2022
Art World A New Art Nonprofit in New York Has a Radical Founding Idea: Actually Listen to the People It Claims to Serve After a renovation and five years of research, the organization opened its doors for the first time this month. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 25, 2022
Crime A Michigan Photography Dealer Allegedly Bilked Elderly Clients Out of More Than $1.6 Million by Pretending to Be in a Coma Wendy Halsted Beard allegedly sold consigned artworks without notifying their owners, according to court documents. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 24, 2022
Law The U.S. Charges a British Businessman With Trying to Ship a Sanctioned Russian Oligarch’s Art Out of New York Graham Bonham-Carter was arrested for attempting to help the billionaire industrialist Oleg Vladimirovich Deripaska escape sanctions. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 20, 2022
Law The SEC Is Investigating Yuga Labs, Creator of the Bored Ape Yacht Club, to Decide If NFTs Should be Regulated Like Stocks Yuga Labs, the crypto company at the center of the probe, has not been accused of wrongdoing. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 13, 2022
On View Elton John Has Curated a Transfixing Show of Peter Hujar’s Photographs. Here’s What His Selection Reveals About Both Artists’ Visions “Once his pictures get into your bloodstream they are impossible to shake,” John said of the photographer. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 12, 2022
Pop Culture Kasmin Has Teamed Up With Mattel for a Pop-Up Launching Artist Mark Ryden’s New Line of Macabre-Pop Barbie Dolls The toys will be unveiled alongside new Ryden artworks in a Los Angeles pop-up show next month. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 12, 2022
Auctions Are You Sitting Down? A Ming Dynasty Chair Just Sold for $16 Million at Sotheby’s Hong Kong—Nearly 10 Times Its Estimate The sale marks the third-highest price ever paid for a chair at auction. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 11, 2022
Archaeology More Than 2,500 Archaeologists Have United to Demand the British Museum Return the Rosetta Stone to Egypt A new petition has amassed 2,500 signatures. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 6, 2022
Museums The Art Institute of Chicago Has Been Accused of Erasing Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s Queer Identity—a Growing Problem, Critics Say Critics say that dealers have been changing the narrative around the artist's work for some time. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 5, 2022
Politics New U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss Says She Does Not Support Repatriating the Parthenon Marbles to Greece Greece’s own prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, plans to push her on the topic in a meeting later this year. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 5, 2022
People Artist Ian Cheng Channeled Anxieties About A.I. and Fatherhood Into a High-Tech Yet Deeply Personal New Film While others are trying to make art more “immersive,” Cheng is trying to make his own creations “adaptive.” By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 4, 2022
Auctions An Auction of Paintings by the Long-Overlooked Chicago Surrealist Gertrude Abercrombie Just Brought in $2.8 Million The market’s recent obsession with mid-century surrealism shows no signs of slowing down. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 30, 2022
Politics London’s Newest Fourth Plinth Sculpture Is a Tribute to an Anti-Colonial Hero. Politicians Want to Replace It With a Statue of Queen Elizabeth II The site has hosted contemporary art commissions for more than 20 years. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 29, 2022
