Auctions Hit Hard by Travel Disruptions, British Airways Will Sell a $1 Million Bridget Riley Painting and 16 Other Works at Sotheby’s This Month Works by Damien Hirst, Julian Opie, and Marc Quinn are among those being auctioned off in July. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 14, 2020
Politics A Top California Film School Plans to Remove an Exhibit Honoring Actor John Wayne After His White Supremacist Comments Resurfaced Officials in nearby Orange County have also voted to remove the late actor's name and likeness from the local airport. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 13, 2020
Market Media Tycoon James Murdoch May Soon Own More Than 40 Percent of the MCH Group, Art Basel’s Parent Company Murdoch, a former CEO of 21st Century Fox, is looking to own up to 44 percent of the company. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 10, 2020
Art and Law In a Big Win for Yves Bouvier, a Monaco Judge Throws Out Dmitry Rybolovlev’s Charges Against the Swiss Art Dealer The decision effectively ends the case against Bouvier in Monaco. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 9, 2020
People Artist Anicka Yi Explains Why COVID-19 Is Terrible for Humanity, But Fundamentally ‘Good for the Planet’ The artist says it is counterproductive to ask artists what their role in any given situation is supposed to be. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 8, 2020
Art and Law Jeff Koons, Gagosian Gallery, and Many Other Blue-Chip Art Operations Received Millions of Dollars in Government Stimulus Money The US government has released the names of businesses that received more than $150,000 in federal stimulus loans. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 7, 2020
Politics After Rebuking Statue Toppling, President Trump Signs an Executive Order to Create a National Garden of Monuments to ‘American Heroes’ The monuments must be “lifelike or realistic” and not “abstract or modernist.” By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 6, 2020
Galleries New York’s Galleries Are Preparing to Reopen to an Uncertain Art Market This Week. Will Anyone Show Up? Appointments, masks, and hand sanitizer will be the new norms. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 2, 2020
Market An Artist Pirated 10 Years Worth of Sotheby’s Auction Data to Expose the ‘Manipulation and Secrecy’ of the Art Market Paolo Cirio is selling digital reproductions of the lots for 1/100,000th of the price they went for on the block. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 2, 2020
Art and Law Cuban Authorities Detained Artist Tania Bruguera While She Was on Her Way to a Protest Against Police Violence in Havana Bruguera was one of at least 40 dissident artists and activists taken into custody by Cuban authorities prior to the event. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 1, 2020
Auctions Christie’s Paris Sells Two ‘Sacred Sculptures’ From Nigeria, Despite Protests From Scholars and Nigerian Heritage Authorities Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu and others have criticized the sale using the hashtag #BlackArtMatters. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 29, 2020
Art World When the Louvre Reopens Next Week, Patient Visitors Will Be Able to View the Mona Lisa Practically Alone The museum has lost an estimated $45 million since the shutdown and expects attendance to plummet. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 26, 2020
Politics The Trump Administration Has Deployed the National Guard to Protect Monuments in Washington, DC The president also promised a "very strong executive" order punishing monument vandals this week. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 25, 2020
Art and Law Facebook, a Longtime Hub for the Illicit Antiquities Trade, Bans the Sale of Historic Artifacts on the Platform Ancient coins, manuscripts, mosaics, scrolls, and tombstones are all included in the ban. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 24, 2020
Art World The Guggenheim’s Curatorial Staff Call Out the Museum’s ‘Discriminatory Practices’ in a Scathing Letter to Leadership The letter, signed only by the museum's "Curatorial Department," calls on the museum to make its workplace more equitable. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 23, 2020
