On View ‘I Didn’t Want to Make What Looked Like Art’: Watch Cindy Sherman Transform Herself Into Female Fantasies, Stereotypes, and Nightmares As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. By Caroline Goldstein, Aug 15, 2019
Politics A Sculpture That Was Censored From Japan’s Aichi Triennale Will Become a Centerpiece of a New Museum for Banned Art The Spanish collector Taxto Benet plans to install the work in his forthcoming Freedom Museum. By Javier Pes, Aug 15, 2019
Politics 30 Years Ago, Ai Weiwei Was an Extra in a Puccini Opera. Now He’s Directing One—to Address the Hong Kong Protests As always, Ai is taking inspiration from contemporary political events. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 15, 2019
Art Guides Berlin’s Top Collectors Are Opening Their Art-Filled Private Spaces to the Public for One Special Night A dozen of Berlin's leading collectors are joining forces in what could become an annual event. By Kate Brown, Aug 15, 2019
Opinion Why Apple's New Augmented-Reality Collaboration With Famous Artists Won't Help Us Reach the Next Stage of [AR]T [AR]T is a team-up with the New Museum that implants app-enabled art at Apple Stores around the world. By Ben Davis, Aug 15, 2019
Events and Parties Francis Ford Coppola Likens Himself to Michelangelo as He Releases the Final Cut of ‘Apocalypse Now’ Francis Ford Coppola spoke about the creative process ahead of the release of a new cut of the renowned film this week. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 15, 2019
Art World Art Industry News: The Museum of Ice Cream Just Got Sprinkled With a $200 Million Valuation + Other Stories Plus, the Guggenheim names a new deputy director and activists stage a pro-democracy art exhibition in Hong Kong. By artnet News, Aug 15, 2019
Market The US Will Hit Chinese Art and Antiquities With an Additional 10 Percent Tariff Next Month as the Trade War Escalates Trump delayed the deadline for taxing consumer goods to spare holiday shoppers, but not those in the antiquities trade. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 15, 2019
On View Liam Gillick and an Austrian Art Collective Transformed Vienna’s Kunsthalle Into a Nightmarish Film Set—See It Here A feature-length film will be released later this year. By Kate Brown, Aug 15, 2019
Art World A 12-Year-Old Boy Found an Ancient Woolly Mammoth Tooth During a Vacation in Ohio “I would like to have my tooth back in my hands as soon as possible," the boy said of his discovery. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 14, 2019
On View A New Edward Hopper-Themed Motel Room Allows You to Experience All the Alienation of the Artist’s Classic Paintings You can spend the night in this painting, courtesy of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. By Caroline Goldstein, Aug 14, 2019
Art World Stunning New Images of a Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Virgin of the Rocks’ Have Revealed Underdrawings of an Entirely Different Composition The images will be at the center of a immersive exhibition about the painting planned for November. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 14, 2019
Art World Tate Modern Surpassed the British Museum to Become London’s Most-Attended Art Institution in 2018 London art museums saw an increase in attendance after a significant period of decline. By Javier Pes, Aug 14, 2019
Politics In a Reversal, the San Francisco School Board Has Voted to Cover, Not Destroy, a Series of Controversial High School Murals The move comes after intensifying political pressure on the board, and statements from leaders of the local NAACP and actor Danny Glover. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 14, 2019
Art World Art Industry News: Washington Post Critic Calls for the Breakup of the ‘Chaotic’ Barnes Collection + Other Stories Plus, the artist Molly Crabapple is arrested at an ICE protest and New York's Culture Pass program signs up 70,000 in its first year. By artnet News, Aug 14, 2019
