People Collector Budi Tek on His ‘Mission Impossible’: To Give China Its First Public Contemporary Art Museum Before He Dies The Indonesian-Chinese collector spoke to artnet News's Andrew Goldstein about his urgent quest to save his groundbreaking private museum. By Andrew Goldstein, Feb 5, 2019
People The Curator of the Met’s Celebrated Michelangelo Show Just Won the First $100,000 Vilcek Prize to Support Immigrant Achievement Carmen C. Bambach is a curator of Italian and Spanish drawings at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 4, 2019
People Does Your Birth Order Affect How Creative You Are? Psychologists Have Some Surprising New Answers A new study suggests that both gender and birth order has an effect on the development of a child's "visual imagination." By Rachel Corbett, Feb 4, 2019
People Yes, That Was Really Andy Warhol in Burger King’s Super Bowl Commercial. Here’s the Story The fast food giant is inviting America to #EatLikeAndy. By Tanner West, Feb 3, 2019
People Two Inventors Just Made Machu Picchu More Accessible to People With Wheelchairs Than the New York Subway The project is the brainchild of two friends from Chile who are on a quest to make travel accessible to all. By Caroline Goldstein, Jan 31, 2019
People Anish Kapoor Owns the Rights to the Blackest Color Ever Made. So Another Artist Made His Own Superblack—and Now It’s Even Blacker Anyone is allowed to use Stuart Semple's new Black 3.0—except Kapoor. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 30, 2019
People See the Strange, Haunting Final Paintings of 11 Famous Artists, From Michelangelo to Toulouse-Lautrec A new book by Bernard Chambaz explores the meaning behind an artist's last work. By Eileen Kinsella & Caroline Goldstein, Jan 29, 2019
People Jonas Mekas, a Patron Saint of New York’s Avant-Garde Film Scene, Has Died at 96 Mekas is remembered not only for his film, but for his role as a binding agent for the New York avant-garde. By Henri Neuendorf, Jan 23, 2019
People Meet the Real-Life Sculptor Who Made Art for the Oscar-Nominated Film ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ Jorge Vascano was one of four artists whose works appear in Barry Jenkins's new film. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 23, 2019
People Reddit Has Become Weirdly Addicted to the ‘Droste Effect,’ With Paintings Within Paintings Within Paintings Going Viral The meme offers a people-powered illustration of the "Droste Effect." By Henri Neuendorf, Jan 22, 2019
People Walter Chandoha, the Photographer Who Popularized Cat Pictures Before the Internet, Has Died at 98 Chandoha's first feline subject was a gray stray in 1949. By Eileen Kinsella, Jan 22, 2019
People Who Shops FOG Design+Art? We Cornered 12 Enthusiastic Visitors (and One Dog) at the Sleek San Francisco Fair At the preview for FOG Design+Art, we stopped a few collectors and other visitors to gather their thoughts on the West Coast fair. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 17, 2019
People Meet 8 Influential Collectors Behind Taiwan’s Growing Art Scene These are they key players who organizers of the inaugural Taipei Dandai art fair hope will flock to the exhibition. By Eileen Kinsella, Jan 17, 2019
People Actress Lucy Liu Is Also an Artist—and She’s Having Her First Museum Show in Singapore Liu's practice involves plucking trash off the street and giving it a new home in books. By Caroline Goldstein, Jan 16, 2019
People Meet Kris Lemsalu, the Eccentrically Costumed Artist Who Will ‘Give Birth to a World of Shamanic Force’ at the Venice Biennale Lemsalu will team up with friends, including the artist Sarah Lucas, to create her own world on a Venetian island. By Kate Brown, Jan 16, 2019
