Art World Seville Locals Are Crowdfunding to Transform Diego Velázquez’s Abandoned Former Home Into an Education Center The home will be similar to the Rembrandt House in Amsterdam or the Rubens House in Antwerp, organizers say. By Taylor Dafoe, May 16, 2019
Art World In a Landmark Move, the Metropolitan Museum of Art Pledges to Reject Funding From the Sackler Family The American Museum of Natural History will also stop accepting gifts from the Sacklers. By Taylor Dafoe, May 15, 2019
Art World A New Petition Calls on Los Angeles’s Board of Supervisors to Reconsider LACMA’s Controversial Redesign The letter urges the city to halt the project and engage in an open discussion with the community. By Taylor Dafoe, May 15, 2019
Art & Exhibitions The Photographer Who Obsessively Documented New York’s Early Underground Gay Culture Is Getting His First Retrospective The exhibition at the Bronx Museum of the Arts is one of many recognizing the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. By Taylor Dafoe, May 14, 2019
Auctions This Roy Lichtenstein Mural Once Decorated the Bathroom of a Famed Playboy. Now It Could Be Yours for $1.2 Million The bespoke work was one of many to populate Gunter Sachs’s famous, Swiss, pop-art-filled apartment. By Taylor Dafoe, May 14, 2019
People Damien Hirst’s Net Worth Rose Nearly $20 Million Last Year, According to the Sunday Times’s ‘Rich List’ Hirst is one of only two artists to make the annual list of the 1,000 wealthiest people in the UK. By Taylor Dafoe, May 13, 2019
Law & Politics Actor and Artist Val Kilmer Says He Definitely Did Not Steal an Artist’s Idea for a Sculpture, Despite a Lawsuit The actor is being sued by artist Bale Creek Allen for allegedly copying an idea for a tumbleweed sculpture. By Taylor Dafoe, May 13, 2019
Art & Exhibitions John Ahearn’s Portrait of a Teen Art Prodigy Was Once Up for a Top Prize. Now, That Teen Is Up for the Same Prize—for a Portrait of Ahearn Devon Rodriguez is a 2019 finalist in the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. By Taylor Dafoe, May 10, 2019
On View LOL, Great Pic: How Instagram and Meme Culture Are—and Aren’t—Transforming Photography A new show at SFMoMA puts image sharing into the longer history of photography. By Taylor Dafoe, May 9, 2019
People ‘It’s a Material That’s Life and Death at the Same Time’: Why Artist Marc Quinn Is Using Hundreds of Pounds of Blood for a New Work About Refugees The blood belongs to 10,000 donors, including many refugees. By Taylor Dafoe, May 7, 2019
Art World Dia Is Consolidating Its Little-Known Real Estate Empire in New York to Create a Major New Art Facility in Chelsea The new Dia:Chelsea is set to open in the fall of 2020. By Taylor Dafoe, May 6, 2019
On View The Late PBS Painter Bob Ross Is Making His Museum Debut as Part of a Happy Little New Age Art Show Four works by the artist-turned-internet icon are included in “New Age, New Age: Strategies for Survival,” on view now at the DePaul Art Museum in Chicago. By Taylor Dafoe, May 6, 2019
Art Fairs What to See at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, From Sculptures Made of Acrylic Nails to a Lush Painting of Adam and Eve Here are the standouts from the fifth edition of the fair in New York—and the first in its new downtown Manhattan digs. By Taylor Dafoe, May 3, 2019
Art & Exhibitions Pristina, the Capital of the Youngest Nation in Europe, Will Host the 14th Edition of Manifesta The country is recognized by only 102 of 193 United Nations member states. By Taylor Dafoe, May 3, 2019
Art & Exhibitions Gagosian’s Extravagant ‘Picasso’s Women’ Show Includes That Painting Steve Wynn Tore With His Elbow “Picasso’s Women: Fernande to Jacqueline” is a megawatt tribute to Picasso's late biographer John Richardson. By Taylor Dafoe, May 2, 2019