Politics Boris Johnson Says He Will Defend Winston Churchill’s Statue ‘With Every Breath in My Body’ as the Battle Over the UK’s Memorials Intensifies The British Prime Minister also called for more monuments celebrating Black Britons. By Naomi Rea, Jun 15, 2020
Art World As a Celebration of London’s Resilience, Cartier UK Has Enlisted Artists and Designers to Turn Its Boutique Into a Rainbow-Hued Art Gallery The initiative challenged creatives to make original artworks featuring a rainbow, which has become a symbol of hope in the UK. By Noor Brara, Jun 15, 2020
Politics Five Activists Were Arrested After Trying to Seize a 19th-Century Artifact From Paris’s Quai Branly Museum and Return It to Africa The activists, who filmed a video of their foiled heist, are out of jail but face charges for attempted theft. By Kate Brown, Jun 15, 2020
Art World Art Industry News: Taylor Swift Says Having ‘Evil’ Monuments in Her Home State of Tennessee ‘Makes Me Sick’ + Other Stories Plus, Sotheby's raises its premium (again) and Los Angeles museums opt to remain closed even when they can technically reopen. By Artnet News, Jun 15, 2020
Art World New York City Has Salvaged John F. Kennedy’s Lost Navy Patrol Boat From a Cove Off the Coast of Manhattan The remnants of the World War II boat could wind up at a museum. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 15, 2020
People How Years of Seclusion on a Mountaintop Trained Artist Terence Koh to Thrive in a World of Virtual Exhibitions and Lockdown Living What the former partyboy can teach us about thriving in isolation. By Rachel Corbett, Jun 15, 2020
People The Art World Works From Home: Monique Meloche Is Hosting Gallery Visits by Appointment and Rewatching the Documentary ’13th’ Here's how the gallerist is making her way as Chicago begins to reopen. By Eileen Kinsella, Jun 15, 2020
Politics The Troubling Stories Behind Five Monuments Around the World That Came Down in Recent Days—and Why Their Removal Was Long Overdue Monuments from Boston to Bristol have been targeted by protestors demanding a change. By Katie White, Jun 12, 2020
Art World An Archaeologist Who ‘Discovered’ One of the Earliest Crucifixion Scenes Is Going to Jail for Faking His Unbelievable Finds Eliseo Gil claimed to have found the earliest written examples of the Basque language, but it was all a forgery. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 12, 2020
Art and Law Fugitive Art Dealer Inigo Philbrick Has Been Arrested on a Pacific Island and Charged With Orchestrating a $20 Million Fraud Scheme Philbrick was captured in Vanuatu and is being transferred to Guam for his first court appearance. By Eileen Kinsella, Jun 12, 2020
Art World From the Toppling of Statues Around the World to the Cancellation of Art Basel: The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week Catch up on this week's news, fast. By Caroline Goldstein, Jun 12, 2020
Art World France Is Seeking Proposals for a New Public Monument to Memorialize Victims of Slavery, Destined for Paris’s Tuileries Gardens Officials hope to install the memorial in late 2021. By Artnet News, Jun 12, 2020
Art World Art Industry News: Tennessee Lawmakers Vote to Keep a Bust of a Notorious KKK Leader in the State Capitol + Other Stories Plus, VOLTA cancels its September art fair in Basel and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says a monument to Christopher Columbus in Manhattan should stay. By Artnet News, Jun 12, 2020
Politics London Boards Up Its Monuments as Tensions Run High Over the Fight to Topple Controversial Historical Statues Groups opposing Black Lives Matter have threatened to defend monuments from protesters, and a bust of a Black poet was attacked in Bristol. By Naomi Rea, Jun 12, 2020
Politics ‘It’s a Symbol in the Community That Can’t Be Ignored’: Why a Teacher Organized a George Floyd Tribute Wall in Harlem The Harlem community is filling the wall with artworks, flowers, and other mementos. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 12, 2020
