Auctions Christie’s Will Launch a New Hong Kong Auction to Coincide With Art Basel, Undeterred by Ongoing Protests The contemporary art sale will coincide with Art Basel Hong Kong in March. By Taylor Dafoe, Dec 9, 2019
Art World The New York Non-Profit Artists Space Reopens With an 8,000-Square-Foot Home in the New Gallery Mecca of Tribeca The director took renovation advice from the artists on its board By Taylor Dafoe, Dec 9, 2019
Market TEFAF New York Fueled a Historic Surplus in Canada’s Trade Balance With the US Art shipped to New York for the fair helped shrink the country’s national deficit—but the numbers may be deceiving. By Taylor Dafoe, Dec 6, 2019
Art World The Smithsonian Institution Is Rebranding Its Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington Legally, the museum will retain its original name. By Taylor Dafoe, Dec 5, 2019
Politics Kyrgyzstan Censored a Feminist Art Show at the National Museum of Fine Arts. Now Its Director Has Resigned The ministry of culture decried the nudity in the "scandalous" show. By Taylor Dafoe, Dec 4, 2019
Art World As a ‘Statement of Solidarity,’ the 2019 Turner Prize Is Awarded to All Four Nominees at Once At their request, the prize will be split evenly by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo, and Tai Shani. By Taylor Dafoe, Dec 3, 2019
Politics The Texas Senate Just Formed a Committee to Decide If It Should Keep a Painting of Confederate President Jefferson Davis In Its Chambers Skeptics think the gesture is meant to diffuse recent controversies rather than create change. By Taylor Dafoe, Dec 3, 2019
Art World Miami’s New Graffiti Museum Is Making the Case That the Outlaw Art Form Deserves a Respectable Home The for-profit museum commissioned 11 murals for its facade. By Taylor Dafoe, Dec 2, 2019
Politics Budapest’s Green Mayor Halts Construction on the City’s $277 Million National Gallery Due to Environmental Concerns The proposed museum stands at the center of a major cultural development plan in Budapest’s City Park. By Taylor Dafoe, Dec 2, 2019
Art World Turning 80, Photographer William Eggleston Is Launching a Foundation to Preserve His Life’s Work and Promote Scholarly Research The foundation will oversee Eggleston’s archives in Memphis. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 22, 2019
People A French Museum Says It Has Found Michel de Montaigne, Famed Humanist Philosopher of the Renaissance, in Its Basement It's probably his body, the museum's director says. "We need to check." By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 21, 2019
Exhibitions William Arnett Helped Bring Self-Taught Artists Into Elite Museums. Now, He’s Presenting His Own Collection at a Gallery for the First Time Artworks by Thornton Dial, Lonnie Holley, and Mary T. Smith are included the show at Marlborough in New York. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 21, 2019
Politics Beijing Censors Have Forbidden the Ullens Center From Staging a Survey on the Chinese-American Artist Hung Liu The show was scheduled to open in December. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 20, 2019
Art and Law Police Raids Across Europe Have Led to the Discovery of 10,000 Stolen Artworks and the Arrests of 23 Suspects Agents from five countries took part in the complex operation. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 19, 2019
People Peer Inside the Otherworldly Studio of Andra Ursuţa, a Sculptor Who Transforms Horror-Movie Props Into Eerie Totems "The throwaway, cheap props that the culture uses to express its fear—I love to use those kinds of things," Ursuta says. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 18, 2019
