Shows & Exhibitions Kara Walker on Her Bittersweet Colossus The artist has raised a pharaonic monument to sugar, out of sugar. By Benjamin Sutton, May 8, 2014
Analysis Christie’s Brings On the Bacon One of Bacon’s most important triptychs from the 1980s is about to go on the block. By Rozalia Jovanovic, May 8, 2014
Reviews Going “Beyond Fashion” with Charles James at the Met Just think of these dresses as sculptures in silk, tulle, and taffeta. By Cait Munro, May 8, 2014
Analysis Erratic Bidding at Sotheby’s $219 Million Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art Leonardo DiCaprio in the skybox aroused more interest than many of the lots. By Eileen Kinsella, May 7, 2014
Art Fairs Finding the Good Amid the Weird at Cutlog Can the French fair cut it in New York? By Ben Davis, May 7, 2014
Shows & Exhibitions Appropriation Artist Sturtevant Has Died (1926–2014) By Benjamin Sutton, May 7, 2014
Galleries Leila Heller Expands to Midtown With Enormous 57th Street Space By Sarah Cascone, May 7, 2014
Reviews Llyn Foulkes Documentary at Film Forum Does the new doc legitimize this outsider's late-career fame? By Graham Fuller, May 7, 2014
Auctions Sotheby’s Will Cover Dan Loeb’s Legal Expenses to the Tune of $20 Million By Sarah Cascone, May 7, 2014
Reviews The Grand Palais Defeats Ilya and Emilia Kabakov What went wrong? By Coline Milliard, May 7, 2014
Art Fairs Paul Kasmin Bringing New Nyoman Masriadi Works to Art Basel Hong Kong By Sarah Cascone, May 7, 2014
Galleries Outsider Art Fair Preview Why Frieze and other insiders should keep an eye on the outsider artists. By Sarah Cascone, May 7, 2014
