People 15 Minutes With a Price Database Power User: Bonhams’s Molly Ott Ambler on a $6 Thrift-Shop Find That Sold for $925,000 The first live sale that Ambler ever attended was a livestock auction. By Artnet Price Database Team, Nov 24, 2020
People Daniel Cordier, the Revered French Resistance Fighter Who Went on to a Successful Career as an Art Dealer, Dies at 100 In 1961, Cordier presented Robert Rauschenberg's first show in France. By Kate Brown, Nov 24, 2020
People Here Are 25 Inspiring Women in the Art World Who Overcame Obstacles to Accomplish Incredible Things in This Surreal Year These museum directors, artists, curators, and dealers stepped up to the plate in 2020. By Artnet News, Nov 23, 2020
People What I Buy and Why: South African Collector Pulane Kingston on the One Work She’s Still Trying to Convince an Artist to Sell Her Top collectors share their strategies (and obsessions). By Naomi Rea, Nov 22, 2020
People How Master Portraitist Jess T. Dugan Empowers Subjects to Open Up for Remarkably Intimate Photographs Dugan belongs to a new generation of queer photographers focused on empowering their subjects. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 22, 2020
People ‘They’re Very Similar Attitudes’: Artist Issy Wood on Her Double Life as a Painting Sensation and Ascendant Pop Star We caught up with the artist about how the music and the art industries compare. By Naomi Rea, Nov 20, 2020
People The Art World at Home: Curator Nellie Scott Is Fighting to Save the Studio of Pop Art Nun Corita Kent and Registering New Voters We caught up with the director of the Corita Art Center in Los Angeles. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 19, 2020
People Who Is Fanny Eaton? The Jamaican Model Who Inspired the Pre-Raphaelites Is the Latest Art-World Figure to Get a Google Doodle Born in Jamaica to a mother who had been freed from slavery, Fanny Eaton became a popular model at London's Royal Academy. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 18, 2020
People Studio Visit: Artist Sophia Narrett on How an Anonymous Renaissance Painting Cycle Inspired Her Latest Feminist Embroidery The artist is currently the subject of a solo show at Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 18, 2020
People The New Director of Rome’s Famed Galleria Borghese Plans to Take the Museum in a ‘More Contemporary Direction.’ Here’s How Francesca Cappelletti says it's essential that the museum draws in younger audiences. By Kate Brown, Nov 16, 2020
People ‘Enjoy It When You Have It, But Don’t Have Too Much’: Artist Wayne Thiebaud on How to Savor Cake While Staying Healthy at 100 Years Old The celebrated American painter's birthday is being marked in his hometown of Sacramento with a delightful retrospective. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 13, 2020
People ‘We Barely Won’: 12 Artists and Collectives on the Challenges Culture Will Face After Donald Trump’s Presidency Although there is a general mood of optimism, some artists are holding onto their skepticism. By Artnet News, Nov 11, 2020
People Studio Visit: Painter Jo Baer on the Exercise Gear (and Chili) That Are Her Secret to Making Large-Scale Artworks at the Age of 91 Hint: it involves dumbbells. By Artnet News, Nov 10, 2020
People What I Buy and Why: Manufacturing Tycoon Heiner Wemhöner on the Emotional Value of Collecting and Why He’s Unafraid of Impractical Art Wemhöner's 1,300-work collection has more recently pivoted to Chinese contemporary art. By Kate Brown, Nov 8, 2020
People The Founding Curator of the Nelson-Atkins Photography Department Has Resigned in Protest of Layoffs at the Museum Keith Davis founded the museum's photography department in 2005. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 6, 2020