Art World Wet Paint: Karma Expands Its East Village Empire With a Blockbuster New Space, an Essential LA Gallery Defects to New York, & More Juicy Art-World Gossip What crazy amount did a KAWS birthday-card scribble sell for? Which Lower East Side art bar might close forever? Read on for answers. By Nate Freeman, Oct 2, 2020
Art World Art Industry News: The Whitney Museum Has Delayed Its Ever-Controversial Biennial to 2022 + Other Stories Plus, the "Artists for Biden" fundraiser generates more than $2 million on day one and Jerry Saltz is OK with the delay of the Guston show. By Artnet News, Oct 2, 2020
Art World After Ditching Its Colonialist Name, a Dutch Art Institution Has Renamed Itself After a Female Working-Class ‘Anti-Hero’ The institution formerly as the Witte de With will now be called the Kunstinstituut Melly. By Kate Brown, Oct 2, 2020
The Art Angle The Art Angle Podcast: What New York's Art World Looks Like This Strange Fall Season On this week's episode, Artnet News's Eileen Kinsella and Tim Schneider weigh in on how museums and galleries have adapted to the new normal. By Artnet News, Oct 2, 2020
Art World From Kehinde Wiley’s Afghan Hounds to Jordan Nassar’s Bulldog, Meet the Most Illustrious Art Dogs of Instagram These contemporary artists created Instagram accounts dedicated to their dogs. See eight of our favorites here. By Katie Rothstein, Oct 2, 2020
On View ‘It Propels One to Actually Go Out Into the World and Explore’: Watch Sculptor David Brooks Link Skateboarding to Art Making As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. By Caroline Goldstein, Oct 1, 2020
Market Palm Beach Emerges as the Latest Sun-Kissed Mega-Gallery Outpost as Dealers Follow the Money to America’s Resort Towns Move over, Hamptons. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 1, 2020
Exhibitions Damien Hirst Is Riding the Wave of ‘90s Nostalgia by Curating a Sweeping Homage to His Own Early Work at His London Gallery This Month 'End of a Century' promises sharks, spots, pills, and a tank of medical waste. By Artnet News, Oct 1, 2020
People ‘New Yorker’ Poetry Editor Kevin Young Has Been Named Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture Young was previously director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 1, 2020
Art World London’s Saatchi Gallery Is Giving French Street Artist JR His Largest Solo Exhibition Ever Organized with the Brooklyn Museum, the exhibition is the artist’s first major solo show in the UK. By Naomi Rea, Oct 1, 2020
Art and Law Activists Who Seized an African Statue From a Paris Museum Are Now on Trial. Their Argument: It Wasn't Theft, It Was Protest Prosecutors downgraded the fine to just €1,000 for the group's leader and €500 each for his associates. By Kate Brown, Oct 1, 2020
Art World Art Industry News: Top MoMA PS1 Curator Peter Eleey Abruptly Steps Down Due to the ‘Many Impacts’ of the Lockdown Era + Other News Plus, Tim Griffin steps down as director of the Kitchen in New York and a new online auction house wants to thwart flippers. By Artnet News, Oct 1, 2020
People These Struggling Artists Found Success on TikTok. A Looming Ban on the App in the US Threatens What They’ve Built For creatives and institutions, the pending ban of TikTok and WeChat could mean significant losses of income and opportunity. By Zachary Small, Oct 1, 2020
People ‘I Don’t Scare Easily’: Martha Cooper on Crawling Her Way Through Train Tunnels to Become One of the Leading Photographers of Graffiti The photographer is having the largest retrospective of her work to date in Berlin. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 1, 2020
Exhibitions The Frick’s Plans for the Breuer Building Promise to Spotlight Its Masterpieces ‘in a Completely Different Light’ The Frick Madison will eschew ornate period rooms and embrace its new Brutalist home. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 30, 2020
