People A Former Museum Director Stole $31,000—and Faked a Burglary—All to Buy Wood Pellets and Tickets to Six Flags, a New Lawsuit Alleges The former museum head allegedly tried to cover her tracks by filing false documents. By Artnet News, Oct 10, 2019
People The Art Establishment Thinks Alec Monopoly Is a Joke—But He’s Laughing All the Way to the Bank Street artist Alec Monopoly has managed to build a successful art career without the typical art-world trajectory. By Naomi Rea, Oct 9, 2019
People ‘The Colonial Effect on Us Is Huge’: Why Congolese Collector Sindika Dokolo Sees Restitution as a Way to Remake African Identity The Congolese mega-collector is on a quest to help return illegally looted art to Africa. By Kate Brown, Oct 7, 2019
People The Art World Remembers Matthew Wong, Self-Taught Painter of Vibrant Landscapes, Who Has Died at 35 Jonas Wood, Matthew Higgs, and others share memories of the artist. By Nate Freeman, Oct 7, 2019
People After Two Controversy-Plagued Editions, the Whitney Museum Appoints Two ‘Acutely Attuned’ Curators to Organize Its 2021 Biennial The museum has once again tapped its own in-house curators for the job. By Caroline Goldstein, Oct 7, 2019
People High-Profile Curator Tim Marlow Is Leaving the Royal Academy to Run London’s Design Museum The curator and broadcaster takes the helm at the Design Museum in the aftermath of a controversy over its funding. By Javier Pes, Oct 7, 2019
People ‘Even If You Don’t Get All the Details, You Can Still Follow Along’: How Charles Gaines Taught a Generation of Artists Gaines is currently offering a free lecture series at Hauser & Wirth in conjunction with his first show at the gallery. By Janelle Zara, Oct 6, 2019
People ‘It Will Not Be a Passing, Fashionable Moment’: Goodman Gallery’s Liza Essers on Why the Art World’s Axis Is Tipping Toward Africa As the South African gallery prepares to open in London this week, its owner explains how the new space plays into her global vision. By Kate Brown, Sep 30, 2019
People Palais de Tokyo Patron Is Swiftly Dismissed After Posting a Bizarre Rant Against Teen Activist Greta Thunberg on Facebook The museum swiftly distanced itself from the patron. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 30, 2019
People The Business of Being an Art Collector: A Roundtable Discussion With Three Top Patrons About How the Pursuit Has Changed Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Dimitris Daskalopoulos, and Paul Ettlinger sat down to discuss how art collecting has evolved. By Cristina Ruiz, Sep 29, 2019
People The Condition of ‘Have-Not-Ness’: Why Performance Artist Pope.L Puts His Body on the Line and Embraces Vulnerability The artist is the subject of three New York exhibitions this fall. By Janelle Zara, Sep 26, 2019
People Artists Cameron Rowland, Mel Chin, and Jeffrey Gibson Are Among the 2019 MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant Winners The winners will receive $625,000 in unrestricted grant money, distributed over five years. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 25, 2019
People Famed Writer Susan Sontag Had a Brief Affair With Jasper Johns—and It Ended When He Left Her at a New Year’s Eve Party The affair, according to a new biography of Sontag by Benjamin Moser, started in 1965. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 25, 2019
People ‘People Have Woken Up—to a Degree’: Artist Fred Wilson on Progress in the Art World and the Evolving Reception of His Work The artist spoke with us on the occasion of his splendid exhibition at Pace gallery in New York. By Terence Trouillot, Sep 24, 2019
People ‘I Was a No One’: How Kamel Mennour Went From an Algerian Art-World Outsider to a Star Paris Dealer Mennour's gallery is now celebrating its 20th anniversary. By Naomi Rea, Sep 23, 2019
