Art World Wet Paint: MoMA Board Members Vie for Leon Black’s Spot, the Untold Story of Santiago Sierra’s Blood Flag, & More Art-World Gossip What L.A. gallery show did Michelle Obama grace with her presence? Which artist shot Hailey Bieber for Pop magazine? Read on for answers. By Nate Freeman, Mar 26, 2021
The Art Angle The Art Angle Podcast: How NFTs Are Changing the Art Market as We Know It Art business editor Tim Schneider helps us figure out WTF an NFT is. By Artnet News, Mar 26, 2021
Op-Ed Thoughtful Deaccessioning Is Part of Any Art Museum’s Mission. But the Lax Rules We Have Now Will Haunt Us Later As large institutions move to sell works from their collections, they tacitly authorize smaller ones to do the same. By Erik H. Neil, Mar 26, 2021
Art World The Ghent Altarpiece, Which Has Been Stolen a Dozen Times, Is Now Protected in a $35 Million Bulletproof Display The painting now hangs in a state-of-the-art, climate-controlled case with bullet-proof glass. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 25, 2021
On View Watch Julie Mehretu Surround Herself With Unfinished Canvases Until She Finds a Work’s ‘New Point of Entry’ As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. By Caroline Goldstein, Mar 25, 2021
Exhibitions Ray Johnson Spent the Final Years of His Life Developing an Enigmatic Photography Project. It’ll Go on View Next Summer Disposable cameras were Johnson's most treasured artistic tools towards the end of his life. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 25, 2021
Art and Law Know Your Rights: Can I Make an NFT of Someone Else’s Artwork? + More Artists-Rights’ Questions, Answered Plus, what can I do if an influencer is stealing my art? And do museums need special permissions when adapting exhibitions to the web? By Katarina Feder, Mar 25, 2021
Art World The Serpentine Has Dropped the Sackler Name From Its London Gallery (But Says It Has Nothing to Do With the Family’s Legal Woes) The former Serpentine Sackler Gallery is now called the Serpentine North Gallery. By Sarah Cascone, Mar 25, 2021
Galleries After Losing Her Daughter in the Beirut Explosions, a Lebanese-Armenian Gallerist Launches a New Creative Platform in Her Memory The online platform that Gaïa Fodoulian began is launching with Beirut's first large-scale show of Lebanese artists since the explosions. By Rebecca Anne Proctor, Mar 25, 2021
Art World Art Industry News: How an LA Gallery Owner Became World-Famous (It Involves Shrimp Tails and Cinnamon Toast Crunch) + Other Stories Plus, London's Masterpiece fair cancels its 2021 edition and the Smithsonian is on the hunt for a class of new directors. By Artnet News, Mar 25, 2021
Art World Amid Pressure to Accelerate the Return of the Benin Bronzes, Germany’s Key Players Scramble to Find a Cohesive Approach Culture minister Monika Grütters has called for a meeting with museum and state heads in April. By Kate Brown, Mar 25, 2021
People ‘Elevating the Voices of Non-Art World Folk Is Integral to Expanding Our Impact’: Curator Karleen Gardner On What It’s Like to Run the Empathy Center at the Minneapolis Institute of Art Gardner spoke to Artnet about her role, which examines how art can be used as a tool to teach empathy. By Maria Vogel, Mar 25, 2021
Opinion I Visited the Digital Beeple Art Museum and All I Got Was an Aggressive Pitch for My Money Is this really the future of online art? By Ben Davis, Mar 25, 2021
People ‘Humor Makes People Aware and Uncomfortable’: Veteran Performance Artist Patty Chang Is Back With Her Most Anxiety-Provoking Work Yet The multimedia artist's new show at Pioneer Works explores the intersection of lactation and fear. By Osman Can Yerebakan, Mar 25, 2021
Politics In a Huge Win for Restitution Activists, a Scottish University Will Become the First Western Institution to Fully Repatriate a Benin Bronze The object is expected to finally arrive in Nigeria within weeks. By Naomi Rea, Mar 24, 2021
