People Anish Kapoor Owns the Rights to the Blackest Color Ever Made. So Another Artist Made His Own Superblack—and Now It’s Even Blacker Anyone is allowed to use Stuart Semple's new Black 3.0—except Kapoor. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 30, 2019
People See the Strange, Haunting Final Paintings of 11 Famous Artists, From Michelangelo to Toulouse-Lautrec A new book by Bernard Chambaz explores the meaning behind an artist's last work. By Eileen Kinsella & Caroline Goldstein, Jan 28, 2019
People Jonas Mekas, a Patron Saint of New York’s Avant-Garde Film Scene, Has Died at 96 Mekas is remembered not only for his film, but for his role as a binding agent for the New York avant-garde. By Henri Neuendorf, Jan 23, 2019
People Meet the Real-Life Sculptor Who Made Art for the Oscar-Nominated Film ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ Jorge Vascano was one of four artists whose works appear in Barry Jenkins's new film. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 22, 2019
People Reddit Has Become Weirdly Addicted to the ‘Droste Effect,’ With Paintings Within Paintings Within Paintings Going Viral The meme offers a people-powered illustration of the "Droste Effect." By Henri Neuendorf, Jan 22, 2019
People Walter Chandoha, the Photographer Who Popularized Cat Pictures Before the Internet, Has Died at 98 Chandoha's first feline subject was a gray stray in 1949. By Eileen Kinsella, Jan 22, 2019
People Who Shops FOG Design+Art? We Cornered 12 Enthusiastic Visitors (and One Dog) at the Sleek San Francisco Fair At the preview for FOG Design+Art, we stopped a few collectors and other visitors to gather their thoughts on the West Coast fair. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 17, 2019
People Meet 8 Influential Collectors Behind Taiwan’s Growing Art Scene These are they key players who organizers of the inaugural Taipei Dandai art fair hope will flock to the exhibition. By Eileen Kinsella, Jan 16, 2019
People Actress Lucy Liu Is Also an Artist—and She’s Having Her First Museum Show in Singapore Liu's practice involves plucking trash off the street and giving it a new home in books. By Caroline Goldstein, Jan 16, 2019
People Meet Kris Lemsalu, the Eccentrically Costumed Artist Who Will ‘Give Birth to a World of Shamanic Force’ at the Venice Biennale Lemsalu will team up with friends, including the artist Sarah Lucas, to create her own world on a Venetian island. By Kate Brown, Jan 16, 2019
People Kanye West Donates $10 Million to Help Fund James Turrell’s Volcanic Land Art Project ‘Roden Crater’ The rapper predicts "we all will live in Turrell spaces" one day. By Eileen Kinsella, Jan 14, 2019
People Collector Jorge M. Pérez Is Offering Lucky Artists a Total of $75,000 to Spend on Anything They Want The real estate giant hopes his two new awards will become Miami's answer to the Turner Prize. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 14, 2019
People The New Museum’s Staff Is Pushing to Unionize—and Top Leadership Is Not at All Happy About It The museum has hired the union-busting firm Adams Nash Haskell & Sheridan. By Ben Davis & Sarah Cascone, Jan 10, 2019
People Metal Detectorist Strikes Gold, Finding a Ring Belonging to 15th-Century British Courtier Wrongly Executed for Treason Edward Colman was falsely accused of plotting to kill King Charles II, and was executed in 1678. By Henri Neuendorf, Jan 10, 2019
People ‘I Feel Robbed’: Adrian Piper Speaks Out After the Haus Der Kunst Cancels Her Retrospective A show by German painter Markus Lüpertz replaces planned exhibitions by Piper and Joan Jonas. By Kate Brown, Jan 9, 2019
