Crime A Sculpture Residency in Upstate New York Was Ransacked. Police Charged the Culprits: Children as Young as 8 The group destroyed artworks, overturned furniture, shattered windows, and sprayed graffiti on the building’s walls. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 31, 2022
Crime After an Artwork Critical of Xi Jinping Mysteriously Burned to the Ground in California, the U.S. Blames a Covert Chinese Operation China appears to have sent operatives to spy on artist Chen Weiming. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 29, 2022
Law Last Year, Biden Expanded Two Archaeologically Important Monuments in Utah. Now, the State Is Suing Him for the Move The back-and-forth will determine the fate of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah’s red-rock desert. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 26, 2022
On View Rising Artist Wendy Red Star on Why She’s Bringing Lost Native American Histories to Light on Bus Stops in Three U.S. Cities “Travels Pretty” features paintings based on rawhide bags crafted by Apsáalooke women. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 25, 2022
Galleries The Art World’s Favorite Architect Is Joining Forces With an Upstart Dealer to Launch a New Gallery in Downtown New York Palo Gallery will double as a kind of showroom for Annabelle Selldorf’s new furniture line, Vica. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 24, 2022
Politics Call It a Selfie? Donald Trump’s Own PAC Is Paying for His Official Presidential Portrait With a Donation to the Smithsonian Two unidentified artists have been commissioned to paint the likenesses of Donald and Melania Trump. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 23, 2022
Art World After More Than 50 Years, Reclusive Artist Michael Heizer Has Finally Unveiled ‘City,’ His Life’s Work. Here’s What It Looks Like Heizer’s sprawling installation of manmade forms in the dusty Nevada desert runs a mile and a half long and can only be explored on foot. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 19, 2022
Books Photographer Theo Wenner Spent Two Years Following Homicide Detectives in Brooklyn’s Most Dangerous District. Here’s What He Saw Like film noir detectives, the investigators Theo Wenner photographed for his new book self-consciously play a role. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 18, 2022
Politics Three Iraqi Artists Withdraw From the Berlin Biennale to Protest an Artwork Depicting Prisoners at Abu Ghraib The show's curators, who apologized for the artwork, have not said whether they will remove it from view. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 17, 2022
Shows & Exhibitions A New Brushstroke Analysis Reveals Vermeer Was Not the Painstaking Perfectionist Art Historians Long Thought Experts at the National Gallery of Art discovered underpaintings on two of the artist’s canvases. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 16, 2022
Shows & Exhibitions A Powerful New Diego Rivera Show Reminds Viewers That Everyday Laborers Built the Modern World—and Are Still Building It Today “Diego Rivera's America” at SFMOMA focuses on the artist’s work from the 1920s to the mid-1940s, the most fruitful period of his career. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 16, 2022
Museums The Getty Will Return a Cache of Illegally Sourced Ancient Sculptures to Italy, Including a Prized Depiction of the Poet Orpheus The life-size statues, depicting the poet Orpheus with a pair of sirens, will be returned alongside other works. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 15, 2022
Law A New Law Requires New York Museums to Indicate If Artworks on View Passed Through Nazi Hands The bill was signed by governor Kathy Hochul this week. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 12, 2022
Museums An Archaeology Museum Intends to Bury the Skulls of 13 Black Philadelphians From Its Collection. Not Everyone Is on Board With the Plan An activist says the institution is rushing the decision and misrepresenting its process. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 10, 2022
Art World A Cambridge College Will Install an Antony Gormley Sculpture Honoring Mathematician Alan Turing, Despite Resistance From Preservationists Meanwhile, another sculpture by the artist on another Englland campus has drawn backlash for its design. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 9, 2022
