Politics Michael Cohen Just Told Congress That President Trump Directed His Charity to Buy Yet Another Portrait of Himself This is the third portrait of the president that Trump is accused of buying for himself through the Trump Foundation. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 27, 2019
Art World Mysterious Street Artist Plastic Jesus Installs a Frightening Sculpture of Actor Kevin Hart in LA Ahead of the Oscars The statue popped up on Hollywood Boulevard. By Melkorka Licea, Feb 21, 2019
Art & Exhibitions Sweet Dreams Are Made of This: Eurythmics Singer Annie Lennox Is Having a Solo Show at MASS MoCA The singer will bury her personal effects in massive earthen mound as a reminder of our inescapable mortality. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 21, 2019
Art World Here Are 18 Photos of a Slightly Bewildered Brad Pitt Taken By Ecstatic VIPs at Frieze Los Angeles It's like we've never seen a famous person before. By Henri Neuendorf, Feb 15, 2019
Art Fairs Who Went Shopping at Frieze Los Angeles? We Buttonholed Brad Pitt, Jane Fonda, and Other Famous Names at the Fair Here's what the Hollywood stars thought of the fledgling fair. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 15, 2019
People Our Guide to 15 of the Top Celebrity Art Collectors (and the Art They Love), From Leonardo DiCaprio to Barbra Streisand From the fashionable to the obscure, celeb tastes have had a major effect in galleries and at museums. By Caroline Goldstein, Feb 13, 2019
Law & Politics A Painter Is Suing Ariana Grande for Allegedly Ripping Off His Work in a Viral Music Video Sections of Grande's "God Is a Woman" music video bear a striking resemblance to two painting by Vladimir Kush. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 4, 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
Art Fairs ‘You Don’t Just Pick Things That You Think Are Pretty’: Actress Brooke Shields on Curating at Miami Art Week Brooke Shields curated a group show of work from New York Academy of Art alumni on view now at Art Miami. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 7, 2018
Events and Parties Comedian Nore Davis Enlisted 11 Visual Artists and a Gallery to Launch His New Album During New York’s Comedy Festival The comedian studied at Pratt, Brooklyn's art and design school, before his stand up career. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 12, 2018
Politics Trump Only Spent $10,000 in Charity Money on a Portrait of Himself Because No One Else Wanted It, His Lawyers Say The attorney general contends that the painting's purchase was improper self-dealing. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 26, 2018
Art World The Smithsonian Unveils a Painstakingly Restored Pair of Dorothy’s Famous Ruby Slippers From ‘The Wizard of Oz’ The repairs cost over $300,000 and took 200 hours to complete. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 19, 2018
Art World Derek Jeter Finally Gets a Win: Red Grooms’s Kitschy Home Run Sculpture Will Be Removed From Miami’s Marlins Park The Marlins will have to pay $2.5 million if Grooms chooses to disavow the work in its new location. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 17, 2018
People ‘It’s Just Exploding’: Jim Carrey on His New Career as an Artist and Political Cartoonist The comedic actor-turned-artist spoke about his painting, his political cartoons, and the Trump administration at the New Yorker Festival. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 9, 2018
People Vanity Fair’s Best-Dressed List Is Full of Art-World Power Players This Year. Here’s Who They Are It probably has something to do with jurors Thelma Golden and Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 7, 2018