People Is Kickstarter All One Big Social-Practice Artwork? Founder Perry Chen on His Company’s Missteps—and Where It Goes From Here We spoke to the Kickstarter creator about what the distributed art school of the future might look like. By Andrew Goldstein, May 1, 2019
People How One Contrarian Art Dealer Created Space for Black Artists Decades Before the White Art World Cared at All A special project at Frieze New York and a forthcoming exhibition at MoMA pay tribute to Linda Goode Bryant's Just Above Midtown gallery. By Hilarie Sheets, Apr 30, 2019
People How Artist Fred Eversley Went From Consulting for NASA to Creating Otherworldly Sculptures The artist, who recently located to New York full time, is the subject of a solo presentation at Frieze New York this week. By Matt Stromberg, Apr 30, 2019
People Artist Ruth Asawa’s Hanging Wire Sculptures Are Getting a Google Doodle Today Previous Google Doodles have honored artists including Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, and Keith Haring. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 30, 2019
People Michael Lewis, the Mega-Author Behind ‘Moneyball,’ Is a ‘Salvator Mundi’ Skeptic. Here’s His Argument Lewis's new "Against the Rules" podcast explains why there might be cause to doubt the world's most expensive painting. By Tim Schneider, Apr 29, 2019
People Idealism, Inc.: Kickstarter Founder and Artist Perry Chen on 10 Years of Empowering Creatives to Follow Their Wildest Dreams We sat down with Kickstarter's visionary creator to talk about how his thinking, and his own art, have evolved. By Andrew Goldstein, Apr 29, 2019
People Meet Augustas Serapinas, the Youngest Artist in the Venice Biennale, Who Likes to Lure Curators Into an Empty Sewer The 28-year-old artist is taking Venice—and the art world—by storm with his interactive, deeply humane installations. By Naomi Rea, Apr 25, 2019
People The Tragic Fate of Vincent van Gogh’s Girlfriend Is Revealed in a New Book Van Gogh expert Martin Bailey recounts the difficult life of Sien Hoornik. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 25, 2019
People Artist Guido van der Werve Pushes His Body to the Limit. Then a Life-Changing Accident Almost Ended It All No task seems too difficult for triathlete, composer, and visual artist. By Kate Brown, Apr 25, 2019
People New York City Chooses the Artists for a Monument to Shirley Chisholm, America’s First Black Congresswoman New York City only has five monuments to historic women. The Chisholm sculpture is part of a plan to remedy that. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 24, 2019
People A Volunteer Docent Told a Philadelphia Museum She Would Leave It ‘a Little Something’ in Her Will. She Surprised Them With $8 Million Estelle Rubens told the academy she'd leave it "a little something," but they had no idea what was coming. By Caroline Goldstein, Apr 22, 2019
People Iranian Artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Who Surged to International Prominence With Her Intricate Mirror Works, Dies at 97 Her dazzling mirrored compositions were inspired by an Iranian mosque. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 22, 2019
People Who Is the Fashion Czarina and Art-World Socialite Miroslava Duma, Recently Named in the Mueller Report? Obviously we found an art angle on the biggest news story of 2019. By Caroline Goldstein, Apr 19, 2019
People Artist Spencer Tunick Is Looking for an Army of Nude Models in New York City to Help Him Fight Facebook Censorship The artist is taking aim at the "community guidelines" of social media platforms, which he says stifle his creativity and censor his art. By Caroline Goldstein, Apr 19, 2019
People Meet the Art Collectors Behind Galerie Magazine Who Just Bought the National Enquirer for $100 Million James and Lisa Cohen own work by Jennifer Bartlett, Roy Liechtenstein, Keith Haring, Sam Francis, Jean Dubuffet, and others. By Artnet News, Apr 18, 2019