Shows & Exhibitions A Louisville Museum Is Staging a Show About Breonna Taylor With Help From Amy Sherald and Theaster Gates Taylor, a Louisville native, died nearly a year ago. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 23, 2021
Auctions Paintings of King Charles Spaniels and Other Treasures From the Estate of John McCain’s Late Mother Sold for Nearly $100,000 at Auction Roberta McCain, who died at age 108 last year, was an avid collector of objects both expensive and cheap. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 22, 2021
Law No Longer Able to Easily Work in Europe, UK Artists Are Urging Boris Johnson to Renegotiate Brexit Terms to Allow for Visa-Free Travel British artists are now having a harder time getting work in Europe. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 18, 2021
On View In a Disturbing and Exceptional New Survey, the American Folk Art Museum Is Defining a New Genre: Outsider Photography "Photo Brut" includes some 400 works from the collection of French filmmaker Bruno Decharme. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 17, 2021
Law A French Court Has Ordered a Far-Right Mayor to Close the Local Museums He Opened Last Week in Defiance of the National Lockdown Perpignan mayor Louis Aliot cannot act outside of the national lockdown decree, the court ruled. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 16, 2021
Art World Hollywood Has the ‘Black List’ for Undiscovered Screenplays. Now, Photography Has a ‘Silver List’ for Up-and-Coming Photographers Some 125 critics, curators, publishers, and academics compiled the list of names to watch. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 15, 2021
Art World Klaus Biesenbach Will Become Artistic Director at MOCA LA, While the Board Brings on a New Executive Director to Steer Finances Biesenbach and the incoming director will split leadership duties at the museum moving forward. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 12, 2021
People ‘I Like the Wetness of the Process’: Artist Torbjørn Rødland on the Pleasure and Perversion of Analog Photography The soft-spoken photographer says the most important aspect of his work is the image itself. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 12, 2021
Art World Simone Leigh, Glenn Ligon, and Five Other Artists Will Create New Works About the Future of Monuments for Prospect New Orleans The works will be funded by a $2 million grant from the Mellon Foundation. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 9, 2021
Shows & Exhibitions A New Show of Leo Steinberg’s Print Collection Reveals the Critic’s Deep Appreciation for the Medium’s ‘Circulating Lifeblood of Ideas’ “After Michelangelo, Past Picasso: Leo Steinberg’s Library of Prints” is on view now at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 8, 2021
On View The Brilliant Quilt Artist Rosie Lee Tompkins’s Patron Donated Hundreds of Her Works to One Museum. Did His Generosity Hurt Her Legacy? Shows of Tompkins’s virtuosic artworks are up now at BAMPFA and Anthony Meier Fine Arts. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 5, 2021
Art World Xaviera Simmons, Nan Goldin, and 150 Other Artists and Activists Are Urging MoMA to Ax Board Chairman Leon Black The signatories of a petition want MoMA to part ways with Black over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 5, 2021
Law Artist Nick Cave Just Won a Bizarre Legal Fight Over Whether His Political Mural in a New York Village Is Actually Art. (It Is) The town's board unanimously ruled that Cave’s text installation is indeed an artwork. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 4, 2021
Art World 100 French Museum Leaders Call on Authorities to Allow Them to Reopen, Claiming They’re ‘Necessary for Mental Well-Being’ The projected reopening date for museums has now been moved three times. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 3, 2021
Art World For the First Time Ever, Anyone Can Buy a Gee’s Bend Quilt Online, Thanks to a New Partnership With Etsy The famed Alabama craftswomen are selling everything from $15 face masks to $6,000 quilts. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 1, 2021
