Art World George Soros’s Foundation Is Launching a $15 Million Initiative to Repatriate Cultural Objects to African Nations The project will support African organizations campaigning for the return of artifacts taken during the colonial era. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 15, 2019
Art World Think You’d Make a Great Museum Director? A New Sims-Like Video Game Lets You to Build, Staff, and Run Your Very Own Museum The game, which will be released next year, tasks players with building and curating their own institutions. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 15, 2019
Exhibitions Were the Mexican Muralists America’s Greatest Street Artists? A New Whitney Show Will Examine Their Too-Long-Ignored Legacy The exhibition is a major statement from a museum devoted to the history of American art. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 14, 2019
Politics China’s President Pledges His Support to Greece in Its Effort to Recover the Parthenon Marbles From the British Museum Greece has campaigned for three decades for the British Museum to repatriate the marbles. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 13, 2019
Politics The Organizers of Iraq’s Venice Biennale Pavilion Have Closed the Show in Solidarity With Anti-Government Protests Rocking the Country The foundation behind the pavilion is calling for a strike by cultural institutions in Iraq. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 12, 2019
Art World A Street Artist’s Mural of Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Is Going Viral Because the Internet Thinks It Looks Like Vladimir Putin Critics are mocking the artwork, but the artist is focusing on the message. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 11, 2019
Art World A Vandal Used Spray Paint to Compare Jeff Koons’s Controversial Paris Sculpture to 11 Anuses, and It’s Hard to Un-See Many French find the work a little too suggestive. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 11, 2019
Art World When Researchers Dated Spanish Cave Art to the Neanderthals, It Altered Our Understanding of Evolution. Did They Make a Mistake? An international group of scientists have published a critique of controversial cave art study. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 8, 2019
Art World A Las Vegas Nightclub Full of Damien Hirst’s Art Opened Seven Months Ago. Now It’s Already Closing A Hirst-designed suite at the hotel cost upwards of $200,000 for two nights. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 8, 2019
Art World As Art Institutions Race to Expand in China, Beijing’s UCCA Museum Announces Plans to Build a Shanghai Satellite The Chinese city is in the midst of a museum boom. By Naomi Rea & Taylor Dafoe, Nov 7, 2019
Art and Law Los Angeles Police Have Recovered $800,000 Worth of Missing Scottish Spiritual Art From a Private Home, Ending a Seven-Year Mystery But roughly 974 works remain to be found. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 7, 2019
Art World A Group of Middle Eastern Artists Was Denied Entry to the US to Attend the Opening of Their Own MoMA PS1 Show Many other artists didn’t even try to obtain visas for the opening. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 6, 2019
People Finally, Strokes Drummer Fabrizio Moretti and Art Dealer Fabrizio Moretti Are Teaming Up—on an Old Masters Show at Sotheby’s The two Morettis partnered to stage a show of 20 Old Master works. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 6, 2019
People The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow Has Hired Former Stedelijk Director Beatrix Ruf Ruf, who left her previous job amid controversy in 2017, will work in a "senior capacity on strategy and development." By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 5, 2019
Exhibitions Legendary Curator Okwui Enwezor’s Final Show, ‘Postcolonial,’ Will Now Become a Reality in Sharjah The curator planned a sequel to his legendary “Postwar” exhibition as part of the next Sharjah Biennial. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 4, 2019
