Art World 100 French Museum Leaders Call on Authorities to Allow Them to Reopen, Claiming They’re ‘Necessary for Mental Well-Being’ The projected reopening date for museums has now been moved three times. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 3, 2021
Art World The Guerrilla Girls Canceled Their Book Contract With Phaidon Over Billionaire Owner Leon Black’s ‘Shady Dealings’ With Jeffrey Epstein The anonymous feminist artists are renewing their calls for MoMA to oust Black form its board. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 2, 2021
On View A New Show Places Emma Amos, Pioneering Artist of the Civil Rights and Feminist Movements, Where She Belongs: The 20th-Century Canon The artist was a member of both the pioneering African American collective Spiral and the anonymous feminist group the Guerrilla Girls. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 2, 2021
People Art Luminaries Pay Tribute to Richard Feigen, the ‘Collector in Dealer’s Clothes’ Revered for Championing Old and New Masters Alike The late dealer placed masterpieces in more than 100 museums around the world By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 1, 2021
Art World For the First Time Ever, Anyone Can Buy a Gee’s Bend Quilt Online, Thanks to a New Partnership With Etsy The famed Alabama craftswomen are selling everything from $15 face masks to $6,000 quilts. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 1, 2021
Politics Art Workers Are Up to Six Times More Likely to Be Out of a Job. Now 10 Big-City Mayors Are Imploring Biden to Bail Them Out Could a New Deal-style bailout save the art economy? By Sarah Cascone, Jan 29, 2021
People A Painting of Amanda Gorman, the Young Poet Who Performed at Joe Biden’s Inauguration, Is Now Part of Harvard’s Permanent Collection Gorman is currently at work on two new books. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 28, 2021
Art World Tech Genius Nathan Myhrvold Says He Shot the Highest-Resolution Images of Snowflakes Ever Taken—See the Pictures Here Nathan Myhrvold built a special device and shot in sub-zero temperatures to capture the images. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 27, 2021
Auctions Phillips’s Total Sales Declined to $760 Million Last Year, a 16 Percent Drop From 2019 The company’s 2020 decrease was on par with rival Sotheby’s. By Artnet News, Jan 26, 2021
Law & Politics Landlords in a Tony Hamptons Town Must Fill Their Empty Storefronts With Works by Local Artists—Or Else Pay a Fine Southampton's mayor proposed the initiative, which is now a law, last summer. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 25, 2021
Auctions An Unopened First Edition Set of PokĂ©mon Cards, Deemed ‘the Pinnacle of PokĂ©mon Collecting,’ Just Fetched $408,000 at Auction It turns out playing with your PokĂ©mon cards was a big mistake. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 22, 2021
Politics We Decode the New Art Biden Just Installed in the Oval Office, From a Bust of Cesar Chavez to a Calming Childe Hassam Painting The National Portrait Gallery has loaned two new sculptures to the Biden administration. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 21, 2021
Art World Rhizome Is Partnering With Hyundai on a Series of Ambitious New-Media Exhibitions Over the Next Two Years A group show of augmented reality, virtual reality, and artificial-intelligence art will kick off the partnership later this month. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 20, 2021
Politics One of Trump’s Final Executive Orders Reveals the 244 ‘American Heroes’ He Wants to Honor With a National Sculpture Garden The proposed garden has no funding or location. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 19, 2021
Politics New York Mayoral Candidate Andrew Yang Has a Plan to Boost the City’s Art Community: Subsidize TikTok Hype Houses He also promises an aggressive plan to put light shows on monuments. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 15, 2021