People ‘I Shift Into Emergency Mode Pretty Easily’: Miranda July on How to Handle the Creative Obstacles—and Opportunities—of Quarantine July says it's time to take our digital "tools of distraction" and put them to creative use. By Naomi Rea, Apr 23, 2020
People The Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama, Is Also a Professional Artist. Here’s How He Is Balancing Those Roles During the Coronavirus Pandemic The nation head talks art and politics from under lockdown. By Kate Brown, Apr 22, 2020
People The Art World Works From Home: Glass-Art Impresario Dale Chihuly Is Stuck Working on Drawings and Rewatching ‘The Sopranos’ Here's how the Seattle-based artist is spending his time in isolation. By Artnet News, Apr 22, 2020
People ‘I’m Frightened, Dismayed, Disgusted’: Jenny Holzer on How Artists Can Use Outrage to Expose the Hypocrisies of Our Time The artist is debuting a new project to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. By Rachel Corbett, Apr 21, 2020
People Renowned Wildlife Photographer and Bon Vivant Peter Beard Has Been Found Dead at Age 82, Three Weeks After Disappearing in Montauk The artist and notorious man-about-town was suffering from dementia when he disappeared. By Naomi Rea, Apr 20, 2020
People What I Buy and Why: Art Collector Pamela Joyner on the High-Maintenance Installation in Her Library That Took Five People a Week to Install The San Francisco-based founding partner at Avid Partners and Getty board member reveals her art-buying strategies (and obsessions). By Nate Freeman, Apr 19, 2020
People ‘We Lived for Seduction’: Yves Saint Laurent’s Muse, Betty Catroux, Recalls Her and the Designer’s Wild Adventures Through a Bygone Art World A splashy exhibition about the woman behind Saint Laurent’s pathbreaking work opened in Paris in March. By Noor Brara, Apr 17, 2020
People The Art World Works From Home: Gallerist Jack Shainman Rides Horses, Plans Exhibition Schedules, and Makes Omelettes in Isolation We catch up with the gallerist to hear how he's finding ways to stay connected during the lockdown. By Tatiana Berg, Apr 16, 2020
People Kanye West Once Said He Wanted to Live Inside a James Turrell Artwork. So the Artist Blew His Mind by Designing Him a New Home for His Birthday West spent his 42nd birthday with Turrell at the artist's land art project 'Roden Crater.' By Sarah Cascone, Apr 16, 2020
People Damien Hirst Really Wants to Work With Plutonium and 11 Other Revelations From His Epic Instagram Interview With Himself In isolation, the artist answered 98 questions from the public on Instagram. By Naomi Rea, Apr 16, 2020
People In March, One Artist Began What Was Supposed to Be a Brief But Glamorous Residency in the Hamptons. He’s Been Stuck There Ever Since The artist arrived at the house on March 13—and then the world changed almost completely. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 15, 2020
People ‘Everyone Is in a State of Panic Right Now’: 7 Mid-Career Artists on How They Are Facing the Enormous Challenges of the Coronavirus Pandemic Kader Attia, Kathe Burkhart, and others on how they have rearranged their lives in recent weeks. By Naomi Rea, Apr 14, 2020
People John Driscoll, a Scholar of American Art Who Led New York’s Eminent Driscoll Babcock Gallery, Has Died at 70 From Coronavirus Driscoll took over as owner of the gallery in 1987. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 13, 2020
People The Famed Quilters of Gee’s Bend Are Using Their Sewing Skills to Make a Face Mask for Every Citizen in Their Small Alabama Town The artists are working to make several hundred masks. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 13, 2020
People Before He Died, Ulay Established an International Foundation in His Name. Here’s How It Plans to Promote the Artist’s Complex Legacy The foundation is also preparing for the artist's largest-ever retrospective at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. By Dorian Batycka, Apr 12, 2020