Taylor Dafoe

Senior Writer
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On View

Counterpublic’s 2023 Exhibition in St. Louis Shakes Up the Formulaic—and Often Problematic—Shape of American Triennials

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Crime

A Dealer Who Fled the U.S. After Being Convicted of Selling Fake Art by Franz Kline and Milton Avery Has Just Been Extradited

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Law & Politics

Düsseldorf Has Finally Restituted a Wilhelm von Schadow Painting to a Jewish Dealer’s Heirs After a Long Legal Battle

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Museums & Institutions

Nan Goldin’s PAIN Activist Group Joined Harvard Students in a Protest of the School’s Arthur M. Sackler Museum

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Museums & Institutions

The Whitney Will Deaccession a $10 Million Edward Hopper Painting, Along With Other Works, to Raise Funds for New Acquisitions

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Pop Culture

Backlash Mounts Against David Choe, the Muralist Who Painted Facebook’s Headquarters, After a Clip of Him Describing a Rape Resurfaced Online

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Art History

An Ancient Roman Bust Purchased for $35 at a Texas Thrift Store Is Now Being Repatriated to Germany

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Law & Politics

Italy’s New Bill Will Impose Five-Figure Fines on Climate Activists and Others Who Deface Cultural Heritage Sites

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Law & Politics

Agents Raided a Foundation Dedicated to Victor Vasarely and Seized More Than 100 Paintings by the Op Art Pioneer

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On View

Artist Sarah Sze’s New Guggenheim Show of Kaleidoscopic Sculptures Offers a Fascinating—and Frustrating—Contemplation of Time

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Politics

Lima’s Far-Right Mayor Shuttered a Memorial Museum in an Effort to ‘Control the Narrative’ of Peru’s History

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People

Remembering Photographer and Activist Kwame Brathwaite, Who Gave a Visual Language to the ‘Black Is Beautiful’ Movement

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Museums & Institutions

Photographer Roger Ballen’s New Art Center in Johannesburg Features Displays That Are Just as Creepy as His Otherworldly Pictures

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Market

New York’s Landmark Flatiron Building Will Go Up for Auction—Again—After the First Winning Bidder Failed to Pay a $19 Million Deposit

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People

Ted Bonin, the New York Art Gallerist Who Nurtured the Careers of Genre-Defying Artists, Has Died at Age 65

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