Analysis How a New Class of Investors Driven by Nostalgia—and Flush With Cash—Shot the Video Game Market Into High Orbit Insiders say young adults are excited at the prospect of reliving old memories. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 29, 2021
Art & Exhibitions Organizers of an Unauthorized Banksy Show Will Issue Refunds After Visitors Complain There Aren’t Enough Real Banksys in It The show has toured the world, but some visitors in Seoul are unimpressed by the lack of original artwork. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 27, 2021
Art & Tech Three Amoako Boafo Paintings Were Just Launched Into Space Aboard Jeff Bezos’s Rocket Ship Sorry, Jeff wasn't aboard this flight. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 27, 2021
Art World In Pictures: Alma Thomas, Carmen Herrera, and 8 Other Women Artists Star in a New Web Comic Series The stories were illustrated by student-artists from the Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida. By Artnet News, Aug 26, 2021
Market Visa Bought a $150,000 Crypto Punk for Its Corporate Collection—and Immediately Triggered an NFT Market Rush The company says it made the purchase to get firsthand experience in a field it soon hopes to advise its clients in. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 24, 2021
Politics Hundreds of Artists Have Signed an Open Letter Demanding the U.S. Accept Afghan Culture Workers as Refugees Coco Fusco and Lynne Tillman are among the signers. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 24, 2021
Art World This Art Collective Is Taking Preorders on a ‘Bootleg’ Mickey Mouse Collectible Ahead of Disney’s Copyright Expiration on the Character The New York art and design collective MSCHF is offering up a token that can be redeemed for a custom “Famous Mouse” sculpture in 2024. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 23, 2021
Pop Culture Here’s the Little-Known History of the Robin’s Egg Blue Basquiat Painting That Stars in Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s New Tiffany Ad The painting is due to go on display at Tiffany's Fifth Avenue flagship in New York. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 23, 2021
Museums & Institutions As Nonprofit Workers Push for Representation, Brooklyn Museum Staffers Have Voted to Unionize by an Overwhelming Margin The vote passed with a 96 percent approval rate. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 23, 2021
Pop Culture Here’s the Real-Life Story Behind ‘Reefa,’ a New HBO Max Film About the Life and Death of a Miami Street Artist The film offers a fictionalized account of the story of Israel Hernandez-Llach, who died in police custody in 2013. By Artnet News, Aug 19, 2021
Art Fairs Frieze London and Art Basel Are Pulling Out All the Stops to Lure Collectors Back to Fairs This Fall. Here’s What They Have in Store The fairs will not have a vaccine mandate, though they will require a negative test or proof of vaccination. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 19, 2021
Museums & Institutions This Clever New Hans Christian Andersen Museum Looks Like It Sprang From One of the Author’s Fairy Tales The H.C. Andersen House is open to the public on a limited basis in the writer’s hometown of Odense, Denmark. By Artnet News, Aug 18, 2021
Art World Editors’ Picks: 9 Events for Your Art Calendar, From a Talk About Chinatown’s Art and Activism to a Show of Surreal Cat Art Plus, stream in to the Migrant Festival, or see a show of "Fairy Organs." By Artnet News, Aug 17, 2021
Museums & Institutions See Major Works by Karon Davis, Hélio Oiticica, and Others That the Pérez Art Museum Miami Has Added to Its Collection Works by Coco Fusco, Veronica Ryan, and Nathaniel Mary Quinn now also belong to the museum. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 17, 2021
People The Art World Remembers the Late Painter Hung Liu, Who Valorized Everyday Immigrants in Monumental Portraits The artist was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last month. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 13, 2021
