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Shows & Exhibitions

Nearly Two Dozen Colorful Artworks Have Enlivened a Small English Town for the 2021 Folkestone Triennial—See Images Here

The exhibition is on view throughout the coastal town through November 2.

By Artnet News, Jul 22, 2021

Auctions

Meet the Anonymous Artist Who’s Auctioning Off Cans of Human… Poop Based on the Diets of Major Market Stars at Phillips

This is the first time feces have made it to the company’s auction block.

By Zachary Small, Jul 22, 2021

People

Curator and Museum Trustee Isolde Brielmaier Has Been Named Deputy Director at the New Museum

The appointment comes at a critical time when museum leaders have been under fire for unfair management.

By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 22, 2021

Art World

Art Industry News: Despite Talk of a Busting Bubble, NFT Sales Were Actually Up in the Second Quarter of 2021 + Other Stories

Plus, Benin's Oba comes out against the prevailing Benin Bronze restitution plan, and Damien Hirst says NFTs may outlast galleries.

By Artnet News, Jul 22, 2021

Politics

The U.K. Government Will Slash Arts Funding in Higher Education by 50 Percent and Redirect Funds to Science and Medicine

Arts advocates are incensed.

By Naomi Rea, Jul 22, 2021

The Art Detective

A Behind-the-Scenes Look at How the Art World’s Most Coveted Residency Chooses Its Artists—and Who’s Up Next

This December, the Rubell Museum of Art will unveil the work created by three sought-after artists during its pandemic-era residency.

By Katya Kazakina, Jul 22, 2021

People

‘We Want Art With All Its Contradictions’: Massimiliano Gioni on How Curators Can Help Keep Radical Art Alive

We spoke with the artistic director of the Beatrice Trussardi Foundation and the New Museum about pandemic-era curating.

By Kate Brown, Jul 22, 2021

Archaeology

In the Underwater Egyptian City of Thônis-Heracleion, Divers Have Discovered an Ancient Warcraft

The city was rediscovered by underwater archaeologists in 2001.

By Sarah Cascone, Jul 21, 2021

Buyer's Guide

6 Questions for Poly Auction Specialist Jamie Yu on a Record-Setting Yoshitomo Nara, and What It Means for His Market

The auction house set a record for a three-dimensional work by the artist in April.

By Artnet Gallery Network, Jul 21, 2021

On View

How Joseph E. Yoakum, an Enigmatic Former Circus Hand and Untrained Artist, Found Drawing in His 70s—and the Hairy Who as Admirers

A major survey of the late artist’s output is on view now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 21, 2021

Crime

A British Art Restorer Has Been Arrested for His Role in a $143 Million Asian Antiquities Smuggling Ring

Neil Perry Smith is the second person to be arraigned in the case.

By Sarah Cascone, Jul 21, 2021

Politics

Tania Bruguera Joins the Growing Ranks of Dissident Artists Being Detained During the Anti-Communist Protests in Cuba

Bruguera was taken from her home this week. Hamlet Lavastida and Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara remain in prison.

By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 21, 2021

Museums

Two Leading Spanish Academics Have Have Resigned From Barcelona’s MACBA in Protest of the Firing of Two Senior Curators

The museum dismissed curators Tanya Barson and Pablo Martínez as part of an organizational restructuring.

By Naomi Rea, Jul 21, 2021

Artnet News Pro

‘The Local Is the New Global’: How Hauser and Wirth’s New Menorca Outpost Offers Clues to the Future of the Art Market

The mega-gallery is keen to develop the sleepy Balearic island into an art world destination.