People White Cube Poaches Warhol Expert Eric Shiner From Sotheby’s to Lead Its American Operations Despite the high-profile appointment, the British gallery insists it has no plans to open a gallery in New York. By Henri Neuendorf, Jul 17, 2018
People ‘This Could Really Be Art for All’: Why Daniel Birnbaum Is Leaving His Job as a Museum Director for a Career in VR The esteemed director of the Moderna Museet is moving on to become the artistic director of the VR production company Acute Art. By Kate Brown, Jul 10, 2018
People Cheim & Read Partner Adam Sheffer to Join Pace as Vice President The nearly 30-year gallery veteran and former ADAA president will begin his new artist-centric role in August. By Tim Schneider, Jul 9, 2018
People Rising-Star Curators From Opposite Coasts Are Chosen to Organize the Fifth New Museum Triennial The New Museum's own Margot Norton and Jamillah James of the ICA LA will organize the show in 2021. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 9, 2018
People ‘The Art World Mechanism Really Wants to Define You’: Onetime Bad-Boy Artist Dan Colen on Achieving Maturity in His Work On the heels of a show at New York's Lévy Gorvy Gallery, Colen talks about his latest work—and a surprise foray into performance art. By Henri Neuendorf, Jul 5, 2018
People ‘It’s All a Surprise’: Luchita Hurtado Is Enjoying a Star-Making Turn in the Hammer Biennial at the Age of 97 For decades, the inventive painter's career took a back seat to those of her more famous family members. Not anymore. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 5, 2018
People Meet the Man Who Made a Living Selling North Korean Art to the West—Until UN Sanctions Got in the Way Pier Luigi Cecioni talks about the art world of Pyongyang, what the country's artists think about contemporary art, and why North Korean art matters. By Kate Brown, Jul 4, 2018
People The Head of Sotheby’s Closely Watched Artist Estate Service Makes a Surprising Exit After Just 18 Months Christy MacLear, the former head of the Rauschenberg Foundation, was tasked with building up the new division of Art Agency, Partners. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 2, 2018
People Can Artists Do Anything to Prevent Climate Change? Miami Beach Has Recruited One to Find Out Meet Misael Soto, the first artist-in-residence in Miami Beach's Office of Resilience. By Eileen Kinsella, Jun 25, 2018
People David Goldblatt, Photographer of South African Apartheid’s Brutality, Dies at 87 "I’m interested in the conditions that give rise to events," Goldblatt once said. By Eileen Kinsella, Jun 25, 2018
People ‘Make Your Bed’: Curator Helen Molesworth Offered These 5 Pieces of Advice in Her UCLA Commencement Address The curator discussed the special skills of listening that artists develop, and their importance for a world in crisis. By Eileen Kinsella, Jun 21, 2018
People Meet Hao Liang, the Young Chinese Artist Whose Reboot of Ancient Ink Painting Has Become a Bona Fide Market Sensation The up-and-coming artist's dense, referential paintings have already sold out at Gagosian. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 19, 2018
People ‘There Is So Much You Go Through Just Trying to Make It’: Amy Sherald on How She Went From Obscurity to a Museum Survey (and the White House) The artist on the strange side effects of fame, new directions in her work, and the aspirations she's almost afraid to articulate. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 19, 2018
People Veteran New York Curator Deborah Cullen-Morales Has Been Appointed Director of the Bronx Museum The veteran of the Wallach Art Gallery and El Museo del Barrio replaces the museum's late director Holly Block. By Henri Neuendorf, Jun 19, 2018
People ‘I May Need to Lie Down’: The Art World Goes Nuts Over Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s Louvre Takeover on Social Media The megastar couple took over the Louvre to shoot the music video for their new joint album's lead single. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 19, 2018
