Art World ‘The Art World Is Waiting for a New Format’: Why French Curator Nicolas Bourriaud Is Launching a Roving Platform to Show and Sell Art Radicants will collaborate with foundations, stage shows, sell art, and publish books. By Vivienne Chow, Feb 24, 2022
Law Inching Toward Restitution, Belgium Has Handed Over an Inventory of 84,000 Artifacts to the Democratic Republic of Congo The two countries will form a joint research committee to examine objects that may have been looted during the colonial era. By Vivienne Chow, Feb 22, 2022
Art World The Venice Biennale Is Getting Its First NFT Art Exhibition Courtesy of Cameroon’s First-Ever Pavilion The presentation of international and Cameroonian artists is organized in part by a new crypto art-focused DAO. By Vivienne Chow, Feb 18, 2022
Art World ‘Ninety Percent of the History You Learned Is Nonsense’: Ai Weiwei on Blending Political Reality With Counterfeit Art in His New Show “The Liberty of Doubt" at Kettle's Yard is more than just a survey of the famed artist's recent work. By Vivienne Chow, Feb 17, 2022
Shows & Exhibitions An Immersive Art Installation Designed to Be Experienced With Closed Eyes Will Debut in a Rebranded ‘Festival of Brexit’ in the U.K. Collective Art's 'Dreamachine' will travel to four cities between May and October. By Vivienne Chow, Feb 16, 2022
Shows & Exhibitions An Eye-Opening Rijksmuseum Show Confronts a History Long Downplayed in the Netherlands: Its Brutal Colonial Rule of Indonesia The exhibition is a collaboration between Dutch and Indonesian curators. By Vivienne Chow, Feb 15, 2022
People Carmen Herrera, Whose Late-Career Triumphs as an Abstract Painter Redefined the Age of Art Stardom, Has Died at 106 The artist soared to stardom in her late 80s, when she sold her paintings for the first time. By Vivienne Chow, Feb 14, 2022
NFTs Crypto Investor and NFT Creator Pak on Why They Don’t Identify as an Artist, and Their Recent Collaboration With Julian Assange Proceeds from the new NFT collection will go in part toward Assange's legal defense. By Vivienne Chow, Feb 7, 2022
Museums Tate Has Become the Latest Institution to Quietly Drop the Sackler Name From Its Walls in the Race to Cut Ties With the Disgraced Family Signs naming the billionaire family are to be taken down from several institutions across the U.K. By Vivienne Chow, Feb 7, 2022
Shows & Exhibitions In Pictures: The Most Significant Show of Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits in a Quarter-Century Reveals His Evolving Psychic State The works were painted in the final years of the artist's life By Vivienne Chow, Feb 3, 2022
Shows & Exhibitions The Venice Biennale’s Main Exhibition Will Challenge the Idea of ‘Men as the Center of the Universe’—See the Full Artist List Here The 213 artists, who are largely female or gender nonconforming, span more than 150 years of art history. By Vivienne Chow, Feb 2, 2022
Art World What Might a Museum of Non-Human Culture Look Like? Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Director of the Castello di Rivoli, Wants to Show Us Institutions must embrace more than art in order to move forward in the 21st century, the curator and art historian says. By Vivienne Chow, Feb 1, 2022
Auctions Korean Galleries and Auction Houses May Finally Be Coming to an Agreement After a Long-Simmering Turf War South Korean galleries have fought back against the auction houses' aggressive tactics by holding their own closed-door sale. By Eileen Kinsella & Vivienne Chow, Jan 28, 2022
Art Fairs Art Basel Hong Kong Pivots to Its Contingency Plan, Pushing the Fair to May as the Financial Hub Remains Cut Off From the World The fair will now take place May 25 to 29, just before Art Basel's flagship Swiss edition in June. By Vivienne Chow, Jan 28, 2022
Auctions Christie’s Aims to Lure Chinese Buyers With a $47 Million Restituted Franz Marc Painting at Its Shanghai-London Relay Sale The auction house hopes deep-pocketed young Chinese buyers interested in Western art will stay on to bid remotely for the London sale. By Vivienne Chow, Jan 28, 2022
