NFTs The Artist Behind ‘Fearless Girl’ Is Selling NFTs to Fund Her Legal Case Against the Company That Put the Statue on Wall Street Artist Kristen Visbal has been locked in a legal battle over the rights to the work. By Sarah Cascone, May 17, 2022
Art Fairs Independent Is Launching a New Art Fair This Fall Dedicated to Under-Appreciated Artists of the 20th Century The fair will coincide with Armory Week. By Eileen Kinsella, May 17, 2022
Auctions Ernie Barnes Stole the Show at Christie’s With His $15.3 Million Painting. Here Are 3 Things You Might Not Know About ‘The Sugar Shack’ The painting had a prominent role in the groundbreaking sitcom "Good Times." By Sarah Cascone, May 16, 2022
Auctions ‘The Secret’s Out’: Bill Perkins, Buyer of the Record-Smashing Ernie Barnes Painting at Christie’s, Tells Us About His Auction Coup of a Lifetime "I'm not gonna stop," Perkins' main competition told him in the auction room. But the amateur poker player walked away with his "treasure." By Eileen Kinsella, May 13, 2022
Art Fairs Here’s Your Go-To Guide to All the Art Fairs Taking Place During Frieze New York 2022 Brace for yourself for New York's second art fair week of the month. By Sarah Cascone, May 12, 2022
Auctions Christie’s Rakes in $831 Million in an Auction Double-Header, Nearly Half of Which Came From the Anne Bass Collection The sales surpassed their combined $792 million high estimate. By Eileen Kinsella, May 12, 2022
Art & Tech ‘They Are About Capturing the Process of Merging’: How Artist WangShui Collaborated With A.I. to Make Paintings for the Whitney Biennial The AI-driven piece responds to viewers' presence in the galleries. By Sarah Cascone, May 11, 2022
Law & Politics Marianne Boesky Loses Her Legal Battle Against Artist Diana Al-Hadid Over an Artwork They Both Claimed Was Theirs In the ruling, a New York judge said their consignment agreement was not a transfer of ownership from the artist to the dealer. By Eileen Kinsella, May 11, 2022
Studio Visit Peer Into the Studio of L.A. Painter Tahnee Lonsdale, Whose Cat Helps Remind Her That Sometimes It’s Okay to Rest Lonsdale has a show opening this week at Night Gallery in Los Angeles. By Sarah Cascone, May 10, 2022
Politics Barbara Kruger Explains Her Cover for ‘New York Magazine,’ a Politically Charged Polemic Against the End of Roe v. Wade The image is a callback to one of her most famous works. By Sarah Cascone, May 10, 2022
Events and Parties Editors’ Picks: 14 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From a Moleskine Art Show to a Cocktail for the Women of Surrealism Plus, an annual scavenger hunt returns to the Bronx, and legal experts talk museum deaccessioning. By Sarah Cascone, May 10, 2022
Museums & Institutions The Guggenheim Museum, Which Long Resisted Calls to Drop the Sackler Name, Has Finally Quietly Removed It The National Gallery in London also removed the name from one of its galleries this weekend. By Sarah Cascone, May 9, 2022
Art Fairs Yu-Wen Wu Asked Google How to Walk From Boston to Taipei. She Spent the Next 10 Years Turning the Directions Into an Incredible Artwork The artist Yu-Wen Wu turned an absurdist set of Google Maps walking directions into a 20-foot artwork in the tradition of Chinese landscape scrolls. By Sarah Cascone, May 6, 2022
Art Fairs Will the Art World Ever Embrace ‘Alien’ Artist H.R. Giger? A Gallery Showing His Sci-Fi Sculptures and Prints at the Independent Fair Hopes So The Swiss artist's dystopian vision has shaped popular culture, but his impact on contemporary art has not been widely recognized. By Sarah Cascone, May 6, 2022
Auctions Here’s Your Guide to the Best, Most Desirable Artworks for Sale During New York’s $2.6 Billion Spring Auction Marathon Collections from the likes of the Macklowes, the Ammanns, and Anne Bass represent an almost unprecedented caliber of material. By Eileen Kinsella, May 5, 2022
