Art World Art Industry News: Leon Black Will Resign as MoMA’s Board Chair Amid Scrutiny of His $158 Million Payout to Jeffrey Epstein + Other Stories Plus, Brexiteers want to build their own museum and the buyer of that $15.4 million Van Gogh painting is revealed. By Artnet News, Mar 29, 2021
People What I Buy and Why: Wendy Goldsmith on Her Obsession With Francesca Woodman, and How She Turned a Fantasy of Collecting Into Reality The art advisor opens up about the young talents on her radar and the museum masterpiece she covets most. By Naomi Rea, Mar 29, 2021
Art World From a Gallery’s Removal of the Sackler Name to the Sale of the World’s Largest Painting: The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week Catch up on this week's news, fast. By Caroline Goldstein, Mar 26, 2021
Art World The Market Is Coming for Museums’ Art, and 7 Other Takeaways From a Hot-Button Conference on Deaccessioning Museums have jumped to take advantage of relaxed deaccessioning rules during the pandemic. By Brian Boucher, Mar 26, 2021
Art World Archaeologists Have Discovered a 3,200-Year-Old Mural of a Knife-Wielding Spider God in Peru The mural is believed to be the work of the ancient Cupisnique culture. By Sarah Cascone, Mar 26, 2021
Art World Art Industry News: An NFT Artwork Made by a Celebrity Android Sold for $688,888, Finally Making Humans Irrelevant + Other Stories Plus, Ja Rule also made some money off an NFT and WWII codebreaker Alan Turing is the new face of the £50 note. By Artnet News, Mar 26, 2021
Art World Wet Paint: MoMA Board Members Vie for Leon Black’s Spot, the Untold Story of Santiago Sierra’s Blood Flag, & More Art-World Gossip What L.A. gallery show did Michelle Obama grace with her presence? Which artist shot Hailey Bieber for Pop magazine? Read on for answers. By Nate Freeman, Mar 26, 2021
Art World The Ghent Altarpiece, Which Has Been Stolen a Dozen Times, Is Now Protected in a $35 Million Bulletproof Display The painting now hangs in a state-of-the-art, climate-controlled case with bullet-proof glass. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 25, 2021
Art and Law Know Your Rights: Can I Make an NFT of Someone Else’s Artwork? + More Artists-Rights’ Questions, Answered Plus, what can I do if an influencer is stealing my art? And do museums need special permissions when adapting exhibitions to the web? By Katarina Feder, Mar 25, 2021
Art World The Serpentine Has Dropped the Sackler Name From Its London Gallery (But Says It Has Nothing to Do With the Family’s Legal Woes) The former Serpentine Sackler Gallery is now called the Serpentine North Gallery. By Sarah Cascone, Mar 25, 2021
Art World Art Industry News: How an LA Gallery Owner Became World-Famous (It Involves Shrimp Tails and Cinnamon Toast Crunch) + Other Stories Plus, London's Masterpiece fair cancels its 2021 edition and the Smithsonian is on the hunt for a class of new directors. By Artnet News, Mar 25, 2021
Art World Amid Pressure to Accelerate the Return of the Benin Bronzes, Germany’s Key Players Scramble to Find a Cohesive Approach Culture minister Monika Grütters has called for a meeting with museum and state heads in April. By Kate Brown, Mar 25, 2021
People ‘Elevating the Voices of Non-Art World Folk Is Integral to Expanding Our Impact’: Curator Karleen Gardner On What It’s Like to Run the Empathy Center at the Minneapolis Institute of Art Gardner spoke to Artnet about her role, which examines how art can be used as a tool to teach empathy. By Maria Vogel, Mar 25, 2021
People ‘Humor Makes People Aware and Uncomfortable’: Veteran Performance Artist Patty Chang Is Back With Her Most Anxiety-Provoking Work Yet The multimedia artist's new show at Pioneer Works explores the intersection of lactation and fear. By Osman Can Yerebakan, Mar 25, 2021
Politics In a Huge Win for Restitution Activists, a Scottish University Will Become the First Western Institution to Fully Repatriate a Benin Bronze The object is expected to finally arrive in Nigeria within weeks. By Naomi Rea, Mar 24, 2021
