Art Fairs ‘I Thought I’d Hung My Art-Fair Hat Up’: Helen Toomer on Her New Role with Photofairs New York and How to Foster Real Support for Artists Toomer is directing Photofairs New York, debuting at the Javits Center alongside the Armory Show in September. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 25, 2023
Art & Tech A Data Breach at Christie’s Revealed Exact GPS Coordinates of Collectors’ Artworks If you uploaded photographs of your art to Christie's, the location of your collection might have been available to the public. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 23, 2023
Art & Exhibitions The National Mall’s First Outdoor Public Art Show Celebrates Diversity With Sculptures by Derrick Adams, Wendy Red Star, and More The Washington, D.C. exhibition has been curated by the public art nonprofit Monument Lab. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 18, 2023
Auctions Christie’s and Sotheby’s Are Competing to Land the Estate of Emily Fisher Landau, Whose Collection Could Fetch Up to $500 Million With the art market in a downturn, the late collector's estate is an attractive prize for both auction houses. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 18, 2023
Opinion ChatGPT & Me: Kenny Schachter Tries to Use AI to Write Intelligently About Art. Is It Any Good? Can you guess which parts of this column were written by a human or a robot? Does it matter? By Kenny Schachter, Aug 17, 2023
Law & Politics The Orlando Museum of Art Has Sued Its Former Director for Staging a Show of Fake Basquiats That ‘Shattered’ Its Reputation The FBI raided the museum's exhibition of forged Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 17, 2023
Art & Exhibitions Meet Real Estate Developer-Turned-Artist Abbott Stillman Whose Abstract Paintings Are Making Their Gallery Debut Stillman's works are on view at "Urban Summer" at Georges Berges from August 17. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 16, 2023
Art & Tech See the Most Distant Star in the Universe—a Million Times Brighter Than the Sun—Thanks to Stunning Photos From NASA’s James Webb Telescope Webb's first year of operation has proved game changing for astronomers studying the origins of the universe. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 15, 2023
Art Fairs Art Basel and Art Miami Have Accused Satellite, an Upstart Miami Fair, of Defamation and Trademark Infringement Satellite bills itself as Miami's most affordable art fair for exhibitors. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 11, 2023
Auctions Phillips Reports a Sharp Drop in Global Sales, With Private Sales Slumping to One-Third of Last Year’s Total Coming off a peak year, the newly challening environment has hit auction houses hard. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 10, 2023
On View See Works by Eric Fischl, Carrie Mae Weems, and More in a Knockout Show on the Surprising Links Between Art and Boxing The show features 100 artworks spread out across The Church in Sag Harbor and Flag Art Foundation in Chelsea. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 10, 2023
People Painter Brice Marden, Whose Loping Lines and Brash Abstractions Defied the Artistic Trends of His Time, Has Died at 84 His daughter announced the news on Instagram, saying, "Dad died peacefully last night at home." By Sarah Cascone, Aug 10, 2023
Pop Culture The Opening of a New Virtual Holocaust Museum in Fortnite Has Been Delayed After White-Supremacist Nick Fuentes Rallied Antisemites to Attack It The museum's launch is being delayed after negative attention from far-right trolls. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 10, 2023
People Known as a Deep-Pocketed, ‘Aggressive’ Chinese Collector, Ding Yixiao Has Now Been Blacklisted by the Art Market. What Happened? The collector's eponymous museum in China is shuttered and he is at odds with at least one auction house. By Eileen Kinsella & Vivienne Chow, Aug 10, 2023
Galleries JTT, the New York Gallery Known for Minting Star Artists, Is Closing After More Than a Decade The gallery helped discover artists such as Issy Wood, Sable Elyse Smith, and Jamian Juliano-Villani. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 4, 2023