Art World From Banksy’s Ill-Fated Trip to Venice to Ai Weiwei’s Lawsuit Against Volkswagen: The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week Catch up on this week's news—fast. By Caroline Goldstein, May 24, 2019
Art World The MFA Boston Has Apologized to Students Whose Teacher Says Museum Staff Racially Profiled Them The teacher says staff also followed the students too closely. By Taylor Dafoe, May 24, 2019
Art World Art Industry News: The Financial Times Tries to Throw Cold Water on the White-Hot Art Market + Other Stories Plus, the US Supreme Court declines a Nazi loot case, and Ai Weiwei writes and op-ed to explain why he's taking Volkswagen to court. By artnet News, May 24, 2019
Politics An Activist Collective Has Infiltrated the Whitney Museum, Replacing Visitor Guides With Sneaky Lookalikes Criticizing Its Board The (De)Institutional Research Team, or (D)IRT, aims to educate visitors about what it calls the “Crisis at the Whitney.” By Taylor Dafoe, May 23, 2019
People ‘I View All Space as Public’: Sarah Morris Explains Why Nothing Is Off Limits in Her New Paintings and Films The artist's current show at White Cube in London is her first UK exhibition in six years. By Taylor Dafoe, May 23, 2019
Art World A Seattle Man Discovered a Trove of Long-Lost Weegee Photos From 1937 in His Kitchen Cabinet The man originally bought the 73 images at a second-hand shop in the 1970s. By Sarah Cascone, May 23, 2019
Art World For Just $33, You Can Take a Tour of the Louvre When the Museum Is Normally Closed to the Public In a bid to attract more locals, the Louvre and Airbnb have launched exclusive tours and intimate evening concerts at the museum. By Javier Pes, May 23, 2019
Politics To Prevent an ‘Uproar’, Trump’s Treasury Secretary Is Delaying the New Harriet Tubman $20 Bill Until the President Is Out of Office The bill was supposed to be released in 2020. By Sarah Cascone, May 23, 2019
Art World Art Industry News: Now a Curator Too, Tilda Swinton Will Open Her First Exhibition in New York + Other Stories Plus, Sotheby's will hold aboriginal Australian art sales in New York and Francois Pinault hires Macron's spin doctor to lead his art collection. By artnet News, May 23, 2019
People Banksy Got Thrown Out of the Most Famous Piazza in Venice for Illegally Selling His Art—and You Can Watch a Video of It Happening Here It appears the artist was in town for the Venice Biennale. By Caroline Goldstein, May 22, 2019
Art and Law Cantaloupe Boobs? Numerous Artists Are Accusing Chris Brown of Ripping Off Their Work in His Bawdy New Music Video A shapely beach bum? Before they appeared in Chris Brown's new music video, these visual puns were works of art. By Sarah Cascone, May 22, 2019
Art World Chinese Authorities Have Detained an Activist Filmmaker for Posting a Picture Referencing the Tiananmen Square Massacre The country is cracking down on activists like Deng Chuanbin as the 30th anniversary of Tiananmen Square approaches. By Taylor Dafoe, May 22, 2019
Politics ‘There Is So Much at Stake’: As EU Elections Loom, Artist Wolfgang Tillmans Has a Catchy New Campaign to Boost Voter Turnout The artist has created a campaign that spans 24 European languages. By Kate Brown, May 22, 2019
Art World Art Industry News: A Mere Gust of Wind Could Make Notre Dame Collapse, Report Says + Other Stories Plus, Tesla poaches its new social media manager from a UK museum and the Louvre struggles to secure major loans for its Leonardo show. By artnet News, May 22, 2019
People Nomura, the Company Behind the Biggest Monetary Prize in Contemporary Art, Just Awarded Two Grants to Emerging Artists Cameron Rowland and Cheng Ran were each awarded $100,000. By Kenneth Baker, May 21, 2019
