Museums & Institutions The Daughter of Collectors Who Gave the Beyeler Foundation a Trove of Art Is ‘Scandalized’ by the Museum’s Plan to Sell A series of Dubuffet paintings donated to the museum in 2013 are now headed for sale. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 11, 2021
Crime Art Collective Forensic Architecture Has Teamed Up With Edward Snowden to Investigate a Shadowy Global Spyware Company The collective believes that "digital violence" is the most important unexamined human rights violation of our time. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 9, 2021
Politics Hunter Biden’s Art Dealer Has Reportedly Made an Agreement With the White House to Keep His Sales Top Secret The goal is to prevent bad actors from purchasing Biden's art as a way to curry favor with the White House. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 8, 2021
Artnet News Pro Art Basel’s Noah Horowitz Is Stepping Down After Six Years as Director of Americas for the Fair Horowitz will remain in his role until August. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 7, 2021
Law & Politics The North Face Will Phase Out a Logo That the Street Artist Futura Said It Lifted Illegally From His Work The company has denied any wrongdoing in the case. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 7, 2021
Art Collectors The Late Samsung Chairman’s Multibillion-Dollar Art Collection Is Getting Its Own Dedicated Museum in Seoul The announcement marks the latest twist in the fate of the 23,000-work collection. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 7, 2021
Artnet News Pro Speculation Threatened to Derail Dana Schutz’s Market. Here’s How She and Her Dealers Rebuilt It on Solid Ground Dana Schutz's market offers an object lesson in how to survive speculation. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 5, 2021
Artnet News Pro How Will Art Basel Pull Off a Full-Scale Fair in September? Here’s How Organizers Are Getting Creative to Get It Done The physical edition of Art Basel boasts some novel new options for exhibitors. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 4, 2021
Galleries Pace Gallery Jumps Headfirst Into the Crypto-Art Market With a Dedicated NFT Platform The gallery is also accepting cryptocurrency as a form of payment for all artworks, physical or digital. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 2, 2021
Art & Exhibitions Botanical Gardens Around the World Are Hosting Augmented Reality Artworks by Ai Weiwei, El Anatsui, and Other Artists This Fall Viewable via a dedicated app, the artworks will be situated among the local flora in what the curators say is a blending of the physical and digital. By Artnet News, Jul 1, 2021
People Artist Catherine Opie, the New Chair of UCLA’s Art Department, on How She Hopes to Make Her Students Debt-Free The artist and educator plans to raise $10 million for the program over the next three years. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 1, 2021
Law & Politics A Florida Man Is Threatening to Sue an Artist Whose Invisible Sculpture Sold for $18,000, Saying He Came Up With the Idea First Tom Miller, who says he made an invisible sculpture in 2016, is demanding visibility. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 30, 2021
Artnet News Pro ‘Fierce’ Demand From Collectors in Asia Propelled Sotheby’s $217 Million Sales of British and Contemporary Art in London The night was marked by respectable, but not frothy, bidding. By Eileen Kinsella, Jun 29, 2021
Art World In the Kitchen: Husband-and-Wife Artists Alois Kronschlaeger and Florencia Minniti on How to Throw an All-Blue Taco Party An all-blue meal inspired by an all-blue art installation inspired by an all-blue jazz album. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 28, 2021
People The Centre Pompidou Has Named Its Former Director, Laurent Le Bon, to Lead the Paris Museum Once Again Le Bon was most recently president of the Picasso Museum in Paris. By Eileen Kinsella, Jun 25, 2021
