Exhibitions Pierre Soulages Will Become the Latest Living Artist to Show at the Louvre This December—Just in Time for His 100th Birthday The show will look back at the many stages of his seven-decade career. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 5, 2019
Art World The Met Is Expanding Its Definition of American Culture by Hiring a Curator of Indigenous Art for Its Famed American Wing The curator will oversee an entirely new indigenous art program. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 4, 2019
People Artist Michael Rakowitz, Who Tackles Identity, Heritage, and History, Has Won the Prestigious Nasher Prize Rakowitz is the fifth winner of the coveted award, and will take home $100,000 to work on future projects. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 4, 2019
Art Fairs Art Basel’s Parent Company Has Offloaded Its Stake in the India Art Fair as It Continues Divesting From Regional Fairs Angus Montgomery, an event-production company, is now the sole owner of the fair. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 3, 2019
Art World Dr. Seuss Dreamed Up a Guide to Art History That Was Never Published—Until Now Here's the story of "Dr. Seuss’s Horse Museum" came to be published 28 years after the author's death. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 2, 2019
Politics A Republican Congressional Candidate Cancelled an ArtPrize Showcase of Drag Performers With Down Syndrome, Saying He Fears a ‘Spectacle’ Peter Meijer owns Tanglefoot, the venue for the Project 1 performance. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 30, 2019
Art World ‘This Truly Is a Landmark’: An Atlanta Couple Donates a Major Impressionist Collection to the High Museum of Art The donation, which comes from local patrons Doris and Shouky Shaheen, is one of the biggest in the museum’s history. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 28, 2019
Exhibitions Relive the Heady Days of the Early 2000s New York Rock Revival in This New Show Featuring the Strokes and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs The aloof attitude of one of the greatest eras of New York rock is captured in an exhibition at the Hole. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 28, 2019
Auctions Christie’s Will Sell Architect IM Pei’s $25 Million Art Collection, Including Works by Some of His Famous Friends The collection includes works by Barnett Newman, Jean Dubuffet, and Zao Wou-Ki, among others. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 27, 2019
Art Fairs Sharing the Wealth? A New Art Fair Plans to Split Profits With Dealers When It Launches in New York Next Year Future Fair plans to share 35 percent of its profits with exhibitors. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 26, 2019
Art World Ever Wonder What Happened to All of Bob Ross’s ‘Happy Little Paintings’? More Than 1,100 of Them Are Holed Up in a Virginia Warehouse But now a handful of them have been acquired by the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 23, 2019
Art World A Giacometti Sculpture Damaged by a Clumsy Cat Was Deemed ‘Worthless’ by Experts on a TV Show. Then It Sold for $612,000 A new round of experts removed layers of spackling paste and household paint to uncover the Swiss master's signature. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 23, 2019
Art World TIME Magazine Names the Shed and Damien Hirst’s Las Vegas Hotel Room as Among the ‘Greatest Places’ in the World Other highlights include the V&A Dundee in Scotland, the Museum of Black Civilizations in Senegal, and the Mori Building Digital Art Museum in Japan. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 22, 2019
Auctions The Art Collection of Terry Allen Kramer, the Flashy Heiress Who Produced ‘Kinky Boots,’ Is Heading to Christie’s This Fall Led by works from Picasso, Pissarro, and Matisse, Kramer’s collection is expected to fetch as much as $21 million. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 22, 2019
Art World The Internet Is Having a Field Day With Memes Mocking Artist Jon McNaughton’s Latest Pro-Trump ‘Masterpiece’—See Them Here The right-wing artist makes the case that history will remember the presidency as... a knockoff Monet? By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 21, 2019
