People The Art World Works From Home: Curator Natalie King Is Taking Podcast Lessons and Making Shakshuka While Developing New Zealand’s Venice Biennale Pavilion The Melbourne-based curator and academic is attending Zoom reading groups and diving deep into research from her home office. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 23, 2020
Auctions A $10 Million Basquiat and a $35 Million Barnett Newman Are the Latest Big-Ticket Lots Secured for the Socially Distanced Summer Auction Season Christie’s will sell a $40 million Newman in their globe-spanning, relay-style sale. Phillips will offer a $10 million Basquiat. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 18, 2020
Galleries New York Galleries Can Now Legally Reopen for Business by Appointment. Here’s What You Can Expect If You Visit One Wear a mask and expect some dealers to ask for your contact-tracing information. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 17, 2020
Art and Law A Conquistador Monument Has Been Removed in Albuquerque After an Attempt to Topple It Was Met With Violence The head of Albuquerque Cultural Services Department explains why this can only be a temporary solution. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 16, 2020
Auctions Sotheby’s Teams Up With Old Master Dealers to Offer More Than 100 Artworks From Their Inventories in a Pair of Unorthodox Online Sales The sales are part of an emerging lockdown-era trend of galleries joining forces with auction houses. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 15, 2020
Art and Law A Year After It Was Stolen, Banksy’s Paris Mural for the Bataclan Theater Has Been Found in an Italian Farmhouse The work was taken from a door at the theater in January 2019. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 11, 2020
Politics Protesters Beheaded a Christopher Columbus Statue in Boston. Another, in Richmond, Was Tossed Into a Lake A momentous day of activism was capped by Native American protesters toppling a Columbus statue in Minnesota. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 10, 2020
Politics The Toledo Museum of Art Walks Back Its ‘Nonpartisan’ Statement on the George Floyd Killing After Protests Erupt at Its Door The museum "does not have a political stance,” the director originally wrote. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 10, 2020
Politics 7 Photographers on What It’s Like to Be on the Ground Capturing the Black Lives Matter Protests Across the US, From Boston to Oakland Photographers have played a crucial role in activist movements throughout history. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 10, 2020
Politics Ousted Whitney Trustee Warren Kanders Is Selling Off the Parts of His Company That Manufacture Tear Gas and Other ‘Crowd-Control Solutions’ Kanders and his company Safariland have come under renewed scrutiny. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 9, 2020
Art and Law A Court Has Temporarily Blocked Virginia’s Governor From Removing Its Notorious Robert E. Lee Monument The governor wants to remove the statue “as soon as possible.” But a descendant of an old Virginia family has other ideas. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 9, 2020
Politics Cities Across the US Are Painting Massive Black Lives Matter Slogans on Their Streets, Following in the Footsteps of Washington, DC Block-spanning text paintings appeared in Oakland, Sacramento, and Raleigh over the weekend. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 8, 2020
People ‘History Doesn’t Move in a Straight Line’: Photographer An-My Lê on How Pictures Can Help Us Keep Up With a Rapidly Changing World The photographer's first career survey is on view now at the Carnegie Museum of Art. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 8, 2020
Politics The Mayor of Washington, DC, Just Had ‘Black Lives Matter’ Painted in 35-Foot-Wide Letters on the Protest Route Leading to the White House The mural abuts Lafayette Park, where Trump ordered the National Guard to forcefully remove protesters earlier this week. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 5, 2020
Politics The Confederate Memorials in the Center of Richmond, Virginia, Including a 130-Year-Old Statue of Robert E. Lee, Are Coming Down "That statue has been there for a long time,” said Virginia’s governor. “It was wrong then, and it's wrong now. So we're taking it down.” By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 4, 2020
