Curiosities Why’s Frida Kahlo’s Family Dismantling Her House for an NFT? Did ‘Succession’ Dis the Shed? + Other Questions I Have About the Week’s Art News Plus, what happens to the ConstitutionDAO's crypto now? By Ben Davis, Nov 30, 2021
Opinion Inside the NFT Rush: Speculators Offer Up the Literal Formula for Success, Plus Other Lessons From ‘Crypto Coachella’ In the third part of a series, we go to an auction of Rare Pepes. By Ben Davis, Nov 29, 2021
Know Your Rights Can Two People Who Own the Same Art Print Both Mint NFTs of It? + Other Artists’-Rights Questions, Answered Plus, is Tesla abusing copyright law by forcing YouTube to remove unflattering videos? And why is Le Tigre in trouble? By Katarina Feder, Nov 28, 2021
Opinion Inside the NFT Rush: Entrepreneurs Promise NFTs Will Destroy the Gatekeepers, While Jockeying to Become the New Gatekeepers In the second part of a series, we sum up some of the themes of NFT.NYC, and fail to get into a party. By Ben Davis, Nov 24, 2021
Op-Ed Selling Art on Commission Is Unfair to Artists. Here’s Why a Direct-to-Consumer Approach Is the Future of the Art Market Artist and nonprofit gallery founder Stacie McCormick makes the case for alternative sales models. By Stacie McCormick, Nov 23, 2021
Opinion Inside the NFT Rush: Gary Vaynerchuk, the NFT Scene’s Booster-in-Chief, Is Predicting ‘Carnage’—But No One Seems to Care In the first of a series, our chief art critic embeds himself in an NFT conference in New York City. By Ben Davis, Nov 23, 2021
Art Criticism David Zwirner’s New Outpost 52 Walker Offers Us a New Way to Experience an Art Gallery, But Only If You’re Willing to Put in the Time The inaugural show, "A Line" by Kandis Williams, is elegant and conceptually rich. By Tiana Reid, Nov 23, 2021
Curiosities What Happens When Crypto Kids Watch an Art Auction? How Big Will Immersive Botero Be? + Other Questions I Have About the Week’s Art News Plus, Microsoft gets into the Olympic games. By Ben Davis, Nov 23, 2021
Op-Ed The Recent Sale of Amy Sherald’s ‘Welfare Queen’ Symbolizes the Urgent Need for Resale Royalties and Economic Equity for Artists There are creative ways that collectors, auction houses, and artists can collaborate to build a system of "resale equity." By Cheryl Finley & Lauren van Haaften-Schick & Christian Reeder & Amy Whitaker, Nov 21, 2021
Curiosities Why Is Neil Gaiman Razzing MoMA? What Could DAOs Do to Art? + Other Questions I Have About the Week’s Art News Plus, can this billionaire have his Norman Foster penthouse or what? By Ben Davis, Nov 17, 2021
Art Criticism Period Rooms Usually Glorify the Aristocracy. With Its New Afrofuturist Room, the Met’s Approach Is Different The room, which brings together contemporary art and historic works that evoke Seneca Village, is a vision of loss, hope, and imagination. By Darla Migan, Nov 14, 2021
Art Criticism The New Museum’s Muted 2021 Triennial Reflects Culture’s Inward Turn, and Perhaps Its Exhaustion There's scarcely a digital presence in this year's show. By Ben Davis, Nov 8, 2021
Op-Ed Artists Can Help Us Imagine a New Relationship with the Earth. That’s Why We Need Their Voices at COP26 Art and science are partners in this urgent conversation. By Christopher Smith, Nov 8, 2021
Curiosities Can a Talking Rousseau Save Facebook? Why Does This Billionaire Think He’s Le Corbusier? + Other Questions I Have About This Week’s Art News Plus, the coin collecting community is upended by a "physical Bitcoin." By Ben Davis, Nov 8, 2021
Op-Ed If You Want to Support the Arts in America, Invest in the South. Here’s Why A person living in the South sees $1 of arts philanthropy for every $4 someone in the Northeast gets. That's a problem. By Susie Surkamer & Joy Young, Nov 2, 2021
