People Pulitzer Prize-Winning Art Critic Jerry Saltz Turned Down a $250,000 Salary to Write for Substack Because He Needs Editors What does a direct-to-consumer product like Substack mean for the future of journalism? By Sarah Cascone, Jul 13, 2021
People ‘I Felt in Between Places’: Iranian Artist Arghavan Khosravi on Studying Art in the U.S., and Why She Paints Preoccupied Women Khosravi recently debuted her first solo show at Rachel Uffner gallery. By Noor Brara, Jul 7, 2021
People ‘I Got to Be the Artist I Wanted to Be’: Sculptor Maren Hassinger on What Success Looks Like for a Black Artist in America We spoke with the artist on the occasion of a landmark exhibition at Dia in Bridgehampton. By Jessica Lynne, Jul 2, 2021
People Artist Catherine Opie, the New Chair of UCLA’s Art Department, on How She Hopes to Make Her Students Debt-Free The artist and educator plans to raise $10 million for the program over the next three years. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 1, 2021
People Italian Entrepreneur Beatrice Trussardi Is Launching a Nomadic Art Foundation With a Dramatic Installation Atop the Swiss Alps The first project is accessible only by foot or horse-drawn carriage. By Kate Brown, Jul 1, 2021
People ‘Museums Belong to Everyone’: Curator Clare Barlow on the Tate’s Groundbreaking Queer Art Show, and the Work Institutions Still Need to Do In 2017, Barlow curated the Tate's first show celebrating queer art. By Naomi Rea, Jun 30, 2021
People ‘I Didn’t Think I’d Survive’: Sculptor Thomas Houseago on His Mental Breakdown, Recovery, and How Facing Trauma Transformed His Art Houseago speaks for the first time about his trauma, his path to healing, and how he found his way back to art. By Kate Brown, Jun 28, 2021
People The Centre Pompidou Has Named Its Former Director, Laurent Le Bon, to Lead the Paris Museum Once Again Le Bon was most recently president of the Picasso Museum in Paris. By Eileen Kinsella, Jun 25, 2021
People ‘Museums Might in Fact Be Broken’: Cult Art Space Founder Lia Gangitano on Championing Queer Art Outside the Mainstream The founder of the New York's Participant Inc. wonders why the art world praises shows as "museum-worthy." By Osman Can Yerebakan, Jun 25, 2021
People The Fearless Photographer Lee Miller’s Life Reads Like an Adventure Novel. A New Exhibition Fills in the Glamorous Details A fashion model discovered by the publisher Condé Nast, Lee went on to become a World War II correspondent who documented the liberation of Dachau. By Katie White, Jun 23, 2021
People Chinese Artist Yu Ji Makes Sculptures Using Rubble, Dribbling Water, and ‘Wasted Mud.’ The World’s Top Curators Are Obsessed With Her With her first solo museum show in London and a New Museum debut on the horizon, Yu Ji is becoming a favorite of the curatorial elite. By Caroline Elbaor, Jun 22, 2021
People ‘I Embrace Whatever Label Is Attached to Me’: Activist and Artist Gregg Bordowitz on Identity Politics and Why the AIDS Crisis Is Only Beginning We spoke with the artist on the occasion of a 30-year retrospective of his work at MoMA PS1. By Pac Pobric, Jun 16, 2021
People ‘My Whole Body Is Moving With It’: Rising Star Kennedy Yanko on the Performative Way She Makes Her Coveted Sculptures The painter and sculptor is the Rubell Museum of Art's 2021 artist in residence. By Katie White, Jun 15, 2021
People What I Buy and Why: Grażyna Kulczyk on the Importance of Humility in Art Collecting, and the Marxist Artwork in Her Bathroom We spoke to the Polish collector about her wide-ranging collection of women artists. By Kate Brown, Jun 14, 2021
People We Spoke to Hunter Biden About His New Life as a Full-Time Artist, and His Personal Quest for ‘Universal Truth’ Through Painting Ahead of his official debut as an exhibiting artist, the son of U.S. President Joe Biden tells us about what is driving his new career. By Katya Kazakina, Jun 14, 2021
