Art World Amy Sherald Painted Breonna Taylor for the Cover of Vanity Fair’s September Issue, Guest Edited by Ta-Nehisi Coates The issue also features photographs of Taylor’s home and family by LaToya Ruby Frazier. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 24, 2020
Art World Ashton Kutcher Burned an Original ‘Artwork’ to Promote a New Blockchain Marketplace Where Art Can (Kind of) Live Forever The platform also offers digital works of art by Seth Green, Ryan Phillippe, and Skeet Ulrich. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 19, 2020
People Art Collector William Arnett, Champion of Thornton Dial, the Gee’s Bend Quilters, and Other Outsider Artists, Has Died at 81 Arnett founded the Souls Grown Deep Foundation in 2010. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 19, 2020
Art World Faculty at One of Canada’s Top Art Schools Demand to Know Why the University’s Progressive-Minded President Was Let Go The school's board is coming under fire for refusing to comment on the removal of university president Aoife Mac Namara. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 18, 2020
Auctions A Pair of Michael Jordan’s Game-Worn Sneakers Sold for $615,000 at Christie’s, Setting a New Record for the Category The auction house's first dedicated sneaker sale brought in $932,000 across 11 lots. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 17, 2020
Art World The George Floyd Protests Spurred Museums to Promise Change. Here’s What They’ve Actually Done So Far Which institutions are following through on their commitments and which are dragging their feet? By Taylor Dafoe & Caroline Goldstein, Aug 14, 2020
Art World Wikipedia Entries About Female Artists of Color Tend to Be Lacking. So Volunteers Fleshed Out 85 of Them in a Virtual Edit-a-Thon The National Museum of Women in the Arts hosted the annual event yesterday. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 12, 2020
Politics Former President George W. Bush, Who Previously Oversaw the Creation of ICE, is Releasing a Book of Immigrant Portraits "Out of Many, One" coincides with a show of the 43 works. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 11, 2020
Art and Law The New Museum’s Union Has Filed Charges With the National Labor Relations Board Over Recent Layoffs The museum acted in a “discriminatory and retaliatory” way in laying off union members, the complaint argues. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 10, 2020
Art World A New Book of Rarely Seen Images by Gordon Parks Will Change the Way You Think About Crime Photography—See Powerful Examples Here The pictures, collected in a new book, have an eerie resonance with the discourse around law enforcement today. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 7, 2020
Art and Law Days After More Than 80 Philadelphia Museum of Art Employees Were Laid Off, the Institution’s Workers Have Voted to Unionize The bargaining group will include every museum employee who works at least four hours a week, and will be the only wall-to-wall museum union in the country. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 6, 2020
Art World A New Book Collects the Best Recreated Artworks From the #GettyChallenge—and Reflects On Why the Project Resonated So Much The public’s understanding of art history was surprisingly sophisticated, it turns out. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 6, 2020
Art Fairs As Virus Cases Rise in Texas, the Dallas Art Fair Cancels Its 2020 Edition—and Won’t Reimburse Galleries for Booth Fees "For now, it seems the long-term viability of the fair is contingent on the fees not being refunded to the galleries," one dealer said. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 5, 2020
Art World ‘It’s the Difference Between Staying Afloat and Sinking’: US Art Workers Are Left Adrift as Weekly $600 Unemployment Checks Evaporate One phase of the government's stimulus plan has ended, leaving many self-employed artists and gig workers with little in the way of support. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 4, 2020
Art World Is This the New Vivian Maier? In a Secret Room, a Young Woman Discovered 8,000 Remarkable Photos Taken by Her Grandfather Alberto di Lenardo's never-before-seen photographs have been collected in a new book coming out this August. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 31, 2020
