People The Art World Works From Home: Curator Natalie King Is Taking Podcast Lessons and Making Shakshuka While Developing New Zealand’s Venice Biennale Pavilion The Melbourne-based curator and academic is attending Zoom reading groups and diving deep into research from her home office. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 23, 2020
Events and Parties Editors’ Picks: 13 Events for Your Virtual Art Calendar This Week, From the Making of a Gerhard Richter Documentary to an Online Fair for Digital Art As the real world reopens, the art world stays busy online. By Artnet News, Jun 22, 2020
Art World Spain Has Been Hit by Yet Another Bungling Restorer, Who Turned This Beautiful Virgin Mary Painting Into an Unrecognizable Blob Restoration experts are now calling for greater regulation of the field. By Caroline Goldstein, Jun 22, 2020
Art World The Met Breuer Will Not Reopen After the Lockdown Lifts, Officially Shifting Control of Its Historic Brutalist Building to the Frick The Met Breuer's Gerhard Richter show, open for just nine days, won't return. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 22, 2020
Market Price Check! Here’s What Sold—and for How Much—in Art Basel’s June Virtual Art Fair Here's what dealers say they sold (though watch out for number-fudging and other kinds of general sneakiness). By Artnet News, Jun 22, 2020
Art and Law A Charles White Drawing Went Missing From Howard University. After 40 Years, It Appeared at Auction—and Now Howard Wants It Back Howard University purchased the work after White's time as an artist-in-residence at the college. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 22, 2020
Art World ‘It Is the Right Decision and the Right Time’: The American Museum of Natural History Will Remove Its Theodore Roosevelt Statue The bronze statue has greeted visitors outiside the museum since 1940. By Caroline Goldstein, Jun 22, 2020
Exhibitions Documenta 2022 Will Now Have Even More Curators, With the Nine-Person Collective Organizing It Bringing in 9 Other Organizations to Help The Indonesian collective in charge of documenta 15 has revealed their plans for the preeminent exhibition. By Kate Brown, Jun 22, 2020
Art World Art Industry News: Frieze’s London Art Fairs Will Be Smaller and Very Different This Fall (If Allowed to Proceed) + Other News Plus, museum workers pen an open letter to New York institutions calling for concrete action and MOCA Cleveland's director resigns. By Artnet News, Jun 22, 2020
Politics Russian Police Arrested Artist and Activist Peter Verzilov for His Alleged Role in Last Summer's Anti-Corruption Protests Russian authorities are cracking down on the protest group yet again. By Naomi Rea, Jun 22, 2020
Opinion The Gray Market: Why Online Art Fairs Aren’t Solving the ‘Fairtigue’ Problem (and Other Insights) Fresh off Art Basel's latest online viewing rooms, our columnist explains why virtual fairs are still exhausting the art world. By Tim Schneider, Jun 22, 2020
Art World As Jobs in the Creative Industry Dry Up, Some Arts Professionals Are Turning to Food Services and Other ‘Essential Work’ to Make Ends Meet A tattoo artist, a photographer, and a curator share their stories of essential work during lockdown. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 22, 2020
Art World From the Island Life of a Fugitive Art Scammer to a Van Gogh Ransom Picture: The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week Catch up on this week's news, fast. By Katie White, Jun 19, 2020
Art World Now You Can See Long-Faded Details in Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Last Supper’ Thanks to Google and the Royal Academy in London Google has digitized—in ultra high resolution—a contemporaneous copy of da Vinci’s work that sheds new light on the masterpiece. By Artnet News, Jun 19, 2020
Art World Up-and-Coming Artist Ákos Ezer Paints Long-Limbed Men Eating Spaghetti and Palling Around in His Debut Paris Show—See It Here Take a sneak peek at a gallery that has just reopened to the public. By Artnet News, Jun 19, 2020
