Politics Following ACT UP Protest, the Whitney Draws Attention to the Ongoing AIDS Epidemic With a New David Wojnarowicz Wall Text On Saturday, the protesters returned to the museum. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 6, 2018
Art World ‘Farewell’: Ai Weiwei’s Beijing Studio Is Demolished by Chinese Authorities Without Warning The rental contract on the studio expired last fall. By Naomi Rea, Aug 6, 2018
Art World Art Industry News: Artist Tyler Mitchell’s Beyoncé Cover for Vogue Is Revealed—With a Twist + Other Stories Plus, a Tehran museum finds 10 Picassos it completely forgot it owned and the Newseum pulls "fake news" t-shirts from its shop. By artnet News, Aug 6, 2018
Art World The American Folk Art Museum’s New Director Has a Plan to Raise the Profile of Self-Taught Art Self-taught art is "genuine, immediate, and candid," says the museum's new director, Jason T. Busch. By Henri Neuendorf, Aug 6, 2018
People 9 Hyper-Relevant Andy Warhol Quotes That Prove the Pop Artist Is Still 90 Years Young The Pop art great is as quotable as ever. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 6, 2018
Art World ‘I Am Black, Angry, Tired of Teaching, Tired of Being Poor’: Jack Whitten’s Newly Published Journals Reveal a Long, Painful Road to Recognition A 500-page journal by Jack Whitten is out now from Hauser and Wirth Publishers. By Colony Little, Aug 6, 2018
Art World From Beyoncé (Finally) Making Art History at Vogue to Klaus Biesenbach’s Move to MOCA: The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week Catch up on this week's news—fast. By Caroline Goldstein, Aug 3, 2018
Art and Law A US Collector Has Returned 12 Ancient Treasures to Thailand as Part of a Crackdown on Looted Artifacts Thai artifacts at the Norton Simon Museum and the Honolulu Museum of Art are also under investigation. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 3, 2018
Art World Art Industry News: Former Venice Biennale Director Declares Biennials Are ‘Stale, If Not Dead’ + Other Stories Plus, a Moscow art museum bans visitors from discussing the art and Klaus Biesenbach walks back his LA/Berlin comparison. By artnet News, Aug 3, 2018
Art World Cate Blanchett Will Play a Marina Abramović-Like Performance Artist in the Third Season of ‘Documentary Now’ The mockumentary turns its satirical gaze on the art world. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 2, 2018
Art World Munich’s Haus der Kunst Cancels Its Planned Joan Jonas Show Because It Can’t Afford to Mount It The historic institution has been plagued by budgetary issues for years. By Henri Neuendorf, Aug 2, 2018
Politics Artists Dramatically Remove Their Work From London’s Design Museum to Protest Its Decision to Host an Arms Dealer Artists are harshly criticizing the London museum's response to the uproar over its decision to host an event for a defense company. By Javier Pes, Aug 2, 2018
Politics Despite Threats of Budget-Slashing, the NEA Actually Saw Its Funding Increase in Congress’s Newly Passed Budget Congress has once again rejected Trump's calls to eliminate the NEA and NEH. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 2, 2018
Art World Art Industry News: Russia Orders the Destruction of a Poetic Anti-Putin Artwork + Other Stories Plus, Olafur Eliasson is opening a restaurant in Iceland and Christopher Knight has some advice for incoming MOCA director Klaus Biesenbach. By artnet News, Aug 2, 2018
Art World Did a Rogue Collector Order the Theft of Sweden’s Crown Jewels? Police Hunt for Missing Treasure, Motives, and the Thieves Who Escaped by Speedboat Police suspect a collector ordered the theft of the gold crown and orb from a cathedral as the hunt for the criminals continues. By Kate Brown, Aug 2, 2018
