People ‘I’d Say Our Timing Is Perfect’: Why Veteran Art Advisor and Dealer Nicola Vassell Is Opening Her First Gallery in New York Now Vassell got her start at Deitch Projects in 2005. By Sarah Cascone, May 18, 2021
People The Mysterious Entrepreneur Who Paid $62 Million for the World’s Largest Painting Plans to Open a Dedicated Museum in Dubai The sale offers a view into an alternative art world where famous names rub shoulders with reclusive billionaires to raise money for charity. By Rebecca Anne Proctor, May 17, 2021
People In the Kitchen: Artist Yto Barrada on the Moroccan Soup Recipe That Sustained Her (and Other Hungry New Yorkers) During the Pandemic Yto Barrada served the classic Moroccan dish at the Wide Awakes soup kitchen. By Sarah Cascone, May 14, 2021
People Richard Nonas, Whose Hand-Wrought Sculptures Helped Define Post-Minimalism, Has Died at 85 Trained as an anthropologist, Nonas became a sculptor without even realizing it. By Sarah Cascone, May 13, 2021
People Quiz: You’re at a Fair and Everyone’s Wearing Masks. Can You Recognize These Art-World Mainstays From the Tops of Their Faces Alone? It's one of the gravest challenges facing the art world today. By Sarah Cascone, May 7, 2021
People ‘I Never Experienced Such Focus and Determination’: Jeffrey Deitch, Jenny Holzer, and Others Reflect on the Life of Eli Broad Broad died April 30 at the age of 87. By Artnet News, May 5, 2021
People Could We Love Machines? Korean Artist Geumhyung Jeong’s Performative Robots Test Our Empathy The artist builds her own machines from scratch and performs with them via remote control. By Kate Brown, May 4, 2021
People Ballet Dancer-Turned-Artist Madeline Hollander Sees Choreography Where Others See Only Chaos. She’ll Help You See It, Too Hollander’s new film at the Whitney Museum is unlike any other piece in her young career. It’s also the most revealing. By Taylor Dafoe, May 2, 2021
People Eli Broad, the Proudly ‘Unreasonable’ Art Collector Who Changed the Cultural Landscape of Los Angeles, Dies at 87 With his wife Edythe Broad, the collector built an influential museum for his collection in the heart of downtown L.A. By Sarah Cascone, May 1, 2021
People Curator Rujeko Hockley on the Lessons She Brought From Her Early Job at the Studio Museum to Her New Role at the Whitney How the esteemed Whitney curator got her start. By Katie Rothstein & Samantha Baldwin, Apr 29, 2021
People Studio Visit: Artist Sam Falls on Working Alone in the Woods at Night, and Why He Doesn’t Like Art That’s Easily Described We caught up with the artist about his unusual studio practice. By Naomi Rea, Apr 26, 2021
People ‘Joy Can Be an Act of Resistance’: Rising-Star Artist Tariku Shiferaw on the Provocatively Happy Ideas Behind His Abstractions The artist's latest show includes paintings inspired by the sky. By Katie White, Apr 26, 2021
People Dissident Artist Ai Weiwei Will Release a Memoir About His Father’s Exile From China, and His Own Detainment The artist recalls his childhood in exile in his new memoir, coming out in November. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 26, 2021
People Studio Visit: Dutch Textile Designer Hella Jongerius Is Cherishing Her Paper Archives and Enjoying Some Good Soup The designer's new art installation will soon be on view at the Gropius Bau in Berlin. By Kate Brown, Apr 20, 2021
People Painter Robert Nava Is Hated by Art-World Know-It-Alls. So Why Are Collectors Fighting for Anything From His Studio? Why do Robert Nava’s paintings feel so good to a certain class of moneyed collectors when they look so… bad? By Nate Freeman, Apr 18, 2021
