Taylor Dafoe

Senior Writer
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Art & Exhibitions

Good Wall Painting: Filmmaker Gus Van Sant Will Debut a Series of New Paintings at Vito Schnabel’s Gallery This Fall

by Taylor Dafoe

Politics

New York City Told Its Museums to Diversify or Lose Funding. Here’s How They Plan to Address the Problem

by Taylor Dafoe & Brian Boucher

Politics

Facing Public Threats Over a Sculpture, Japan’s Aichi Triennale Censors Its Own Exhibition About Censorship

by Taylor Dafoe

Politics

New York Sets Aside $212 Million for Next Year’s Cultural Budget—Another Record for the City

by Taylor Dafoe

Law & Politics

A Street Artist Is Suing Walmart and Ellen DeGeneres for Allegedly Stealing His Signature Heart Logo

by Taylor Dafoe

Politics

Congress Is Investigating a For-Profit Education Company Accused of Scamming Art Students (With the Trump Administration’s Help)

by Taylor Dafoe

People

‘We Need to Tell a Different Story’: Why Tamir Rice’s Mother Samaria Is Collaborating With Contemporary Artists to Honor Her Son’s Legacy

by Taylor Dafoe

Art World

A Family Found a Long-Forgotten Portrait of Their Mother at Home. It Turns Out It’s by One of Africa’s Most Famous Artists

by Taylor Dafoe

On View

Inside One Photographer’s Quest to Infiltrate Bohemian Grove, the Secret Annual Gathering of America’s Most Powerful Men

by Taylor Dafoe

Art Fairs

The Independent Art Fair Is Closing Down Its Brussels Edition, Citing a Weak Local Market and Cramped Calendar

by Taylor Dafoe

People

Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio Have Been Making Ceramics Together Late Into the Night at Pitt’s Sculpture Studio

by Taylor Dafoe

Art World

Asian Art Advocates Accuse the Shed of ‘Yellow-Face Casting’ in Its Kung-Fu Musical. But Its Director Says the Character Is Actually White

by Taylor Dafoe

Art World

Street Art Pioneer Fab 5 Freddy Looks to Renaissance Art for Lessons About Race in His New BBC Film—and Rides a Horse While Doing It

by Taylor Dafoe

Art World

Amid the Rise of Italy’s Far Right, Curator Francesco Bonami Has Founded His Own Satirical Italian-Art-First Political Party

by Taylor Dafoe

People

How Does a Gallery Stay in Business for 35 Years? Lisa Spellman on 303 Gallery’s Staying Power and the Hardest Part of Being a Dealer

by Taylor Dafoe