Art World ‘Art Becomes Retail Surprisingly Quickly’: How Marfa Went From Donald Judd’s Anti-Commercial Escape to a Mecca of Luxury Minimalism Read an excerpt from Kyle Chayka's new book, "The Longing for Less: Living With Minimalism." By Kyle Chayka, Jan 8, 2020
Art World Friends and Former Students Remember the Late John Baldessari as an Artist Who ‘Always Knew What He Was Doing’ David Salle, Lawrence Weiner, and Martha Rosler look back on their friend and colleague. By Zachary Small, Jan 7, 2020
Art World Chris Ofili, Viviane Sassen, and Other Artists Have Designed the Posters for Tokyo’s 2020 Olympics, and They’re Pretty Extra There's a long tradition of artist-designed posters appearing ahead of the Olympic games. By Artnet News, Jan 7, 2020
Politics The Assets of Africa’s Most Important Art Collecting Couple Have Been Frozen Amid Angola’s Corruption Crackdown Isabel dos Santos and Sindika Dokolo say that the current government is on a political ‘witch-hunt.’ By Kate Brown, Jan 7, 2020
Art World Is Your Paintbrush Made From Mongoose Hair? A Wildlife Group Is Blasting Amazon for Selling Brushes Made Illegally From Endangered Fur Around 100,000 mongooses are illegally killed in India each year. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 7, 2020
Art World What Would Monet Post? The Musée d’Orsay Hired an Instagram Artist-in-Residence to Imagine the Social Media Accounts of Impressionist Masters Illustrator Jean-Philippe Delhomme's posts will appear on the museum's account every Monday in 2020. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 7, 2020
Art World Art Industry News: Art Professor and Chair of Mount Holyoke's Art Studio Is Arrested + Other Stories Plus, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art returns a looted painting and the Hirshhorn Museum plans yet another Kusama extravaganza. By Artnet News, Jan 7, 2020
Politics The Pentagon Has Rejected Trump’s Threat to Bomb Iran’s Heritage Sites. Here’s What May Have Been Saved Officials at the Pentagon acknowledge that striking Iran's cultural heritage would break "the laws of armed conflict." By Naomi Rea, Jan 7, 2020
Politics Activists Attempt to Dismantle Berlin's Most Controversial WWII Memorial The monument allegedly contained the ashes of Jewish victims of the Nazi regime. By Kate Brown, Jan 7, 2020
The Art Angle The Art Angle Podcast: Four Predictions on How the Art World Will Transform in 2020 In our latest episode, Tim Schneider peers into his Salvator Mundi-esque orb to see what the next 12 months have in store for art. By Artnet News, Jan 7, 2020
People Why Was the Late Artist John Baldessari So Important? Just Watch This Video Narrated by Tom Waits A short documentary on the artist from 2012 has been making the rounds on social media. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 6, 2020
Events and Parties Editors Picks: 17 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week The art world returns from winter break. By Artnet News, Jan 6, 2020
Politics In a Rare Political Gesture, the Met Speaks Out Against Trump’s Threats to Iranian Cultural Sites, Calling Such Targeting ‘Abhorrent’ The Met joins other museum leaders as well as top museum organizations in condemning the US President's comments. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 6, 2020
Auctions Phillips Will Hold a Selling Show of Banksy and KAWS in New York to Target a New Generation of Want-It-Now Buyers Prices for the 20 works on view range from $25,000 to $4 million. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 6, 2020
On View The Met Just Received a Gift of 700 Once-Cutting-Edge Images That Bring the World of the 1800s to Vivid Life—See Them Here Many of the works are now on view in the exhibition “2020 Vision: Photographs, 1840s–1860s." By Caroline Goldstein, Jan 6, 2020
