Art Whirled Is Video Art Getting Ready for a Comeback? [Cartoon] Art Whirled is a series of weekly cartoons on Artnet News that poke fun at the extremely ripe target of the art world and art market. By Guy Richards Smit, Dec 26, 2022
Art World Artist-Led Spaces Are Proliferating Around the World, Filling a Gap Caused by Dwindling Public Funding and Market Pressures Institutes and residencies founded by artists are sprouting up around the world, from the U.K. and Italy, to Kenya and Singapore. By Rebecca Anne Proctor, Dec 26, 2022
Art World Here Are 10 of the Best Artworks We Saw Around the World in 2022 Our editorial staff and contributors highlight some of the most unforgettable artworks they saw this year. By Artnet News, Dec 26, 2022
Art World Artist Vanessa Beecroft Has Installed a Tribute to a Lost Caravaggio in the Sicilian Church Where It Was Stolen 54 Years Ago Beecroft is the first internationally recognized artist to be given the commission, which was unveiled on Christmas Eve. By Hili Perlson, Dec 24, 2022
Museums The Director of Florence’s Uffizi Gallery Sent a Museum-Wide Memo With Rules for Proper Email Composition. Here Are His Demands Bold characters are out and so is excessive punctuation. By Richard Whiddington, Dec 23, 2022
Art World Maestro Dobel Distills the Spirit of Mexican Charrería Culture With Hand-Painted Tequila Bottles The collection is an ode to 'charros,' or Mexican horse riders, and pairs a limited-edition tequila with a hand-painted vessel. By Artnet News in Partnership With Maestro Dobel Tequila, Dec 23, 2022
Science & Tech The San Francisco Ballet Is Catching Heat for Promoting Its ‘Nutcracker’ Performances With A.I.-Generated Art The company used Midjourney to generate the promotional images. By Richard Whiddington, Dec 23, 2022
Crime A Thief Swiped a $70,000 Glass Sculpture From an Oklahoma Museum—Then Was Caught When He Returned to the Exhibition The stolen artwork was small enough to fit in the thief's pocket. By Sarah Cascone, Dec 23, 2022
Shows & Exhibitions How the Kochi-Muziris Biennale Overcame Organizational Mayhem, Extreme Weather, and a Gatecrashing Horror Film Production to Finally Open After a several postponements and delays, the biennale finally opened on December 23. By Nadine Khalil, Dec 23, 2022
The Burns Halperin Report For Some American Artists, Recognition by Mainstream Art Institutions Is a Means to an End: Building Their Own Alternatives Here's how a group of social-practice artists are using the art-world system to invest in their own visions for the future. By Melissa Smith, Dec 23, 2022
People A Felled Robert E. Lee Statue in Virginia Will Be Replaced by a Memorial to Henrietta Lacks The memorial plaza will also be renamed for Lacks, whose cancer cells—taken without her knowledge—have provided medical breakthroughs for decades. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 23, 2022
Art World Art Industry News: Emily Ratajkowski Appears to Be Dating (or at Least Making Out With) a Still House Group Artist Now + Other Stories Plus, China's art fairs get a late-in-the-year reprieve, and Venice holds its annual Santa Claus Regatta. By Artnet News, Dec 23, 2022
Art World All the Feels: Here Are 11 Times That Good News Prevailed in the Art World This Year From the joyful adoption of Van Gogh the one-eared dog to a literal feel-good exhibition promoting ASMR. By Artnet News, Dec 23, 2022
The Burns Halperin Report Who’s Afraid of Women of a Certain Age? The Market Still Dramatically Undervalues Female Artists—But There’s More to the Story The auction market for Pablo Picasso is larger than that for all female artists over the past 14 years. By Katya Kazakina, Dec 23, 2022
People Anna Delvey, Out of Jail But Still Under House Arrest, Pulled in More Than $300,000 From Her Art This Year Prices for her original pieces range from $17,000 to about $25,000, and collectors include lawyers, tech moguls and foreign presidents. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 22, 2022
