Art World Editors’ Picks: 11 Events for Your Calendar This Week, From a Chess Grandmaster at the Rubin to a Modern Spin on Artemisia Gentileschi Plus, Suzanne McClelland at Marianne Boesky and an NFT art show. By Artnet News, May 3, 2021
Politics Activists’ Plan to Bring a March Against Toxic Philanthropy Inside MoMA Ended in Conflicting Accounts of Violence MoMA says one guard was bitten and another hospitalized after being pushed into a door. A protester says she was punched. By Taylor Dafoe, May 3, 2021
Market Gallery Weekend Beijing Drew Nearly 200,000 In-Person Visitors Despite a Regional Audience and Enduring Travel Restrictions Dealers saw robust attendance and encouraging signs for the future of in-person art events. By Eileen Kinsella, May 3, 2021
People Ballet Dancer-Turned-Artist Madeline Hollander Sees Choreography Where Others See Only Chaos. She’ll Help You See It, Too Hollander’s new film at the Whitney Museum is unlike any other piece in her young career. It’s also the most revealing. By Taylor Dafoe, May 2, 2021
Art World Want to Kick Poker Night Up a Notch? A Playing-Card Company Has Teamed Up With the Whitney to Release Artist-Designed Decks The first deck is designed by Shantell Martin, and it runs only $10. By Eileen Kinsella, May 2, 2021
Art Collectors Can the Pandemic Home-Improvement Boom Boost the Market? An Auction Veteran’s New Company Targets Interior Designers Liz Beaman Delman has big plans for Above the Sofa. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 29, 2021
Analysis Think Everyone Is Getting Rich Off NFTs? Most Sales Are Actually $200 or Less, According to One Report And that's before fees. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 28, 2021
Auctions Former Christie’s Financial Chief Stephen Brooks Will Replace Edward Dolman as Phillips’s New C.E.O. Dolman has been promoted to the newly created position of executive chairman. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 28, 2021
Art Fairs Are the Brisk Sales at a Tiny Marfa Art Fair the Harbinger of a Post-Pandemic Buying Frenzy to Come? Some Dealers Think So Among the attendees this year were Bill Powers, Nino Mier, and Yvonne Force Villareal. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 27, 2021
Art World After an Outcry, a Chadwick Boseman-Themed NFT Artwork That Was Given Out as Oscar Swag Will Be Redesigned The work had been on sale for $1.2 million on Rarible. By Artnet News, Apr 27, 2021
Law & Politics An Indonesian Theme Park Must Destroy Its Knockoff of Chris Burden’s ‘Urban Light’ After Losing a Suit Brought by the Artist’s Estate Rabbit Town has 30 days to remove the infringing installation and apologize to the Burden estate. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 27, 2021
On View David Hammons’s Homage to Gordon Matta-Clark Began as a Quick Sketch. Now It’ll Be a Monumental Fixture of New York’s Landscape The artwork will welcome people on New York's Hudson River. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 26, 2021
Pop Culture A Pair of ‘Nike Air Yeezy’ Sneakers Kanye West Wore to the Grammys Just Sold for $1.8 Million at Sotheby’s The buyer was a sneaker investment platform called Rares. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 26, 2021
People Dissident Artist Ai Weiwei Will Release a Memoir About His Father’s Exile From China, and His Own Detainment The artist recalls his childhood in exile in his new memoir, coming out in November. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 26, 2021
Auctions Mad Dog Jones Is the Most Expensive Living Canadian Artist After Phillips’s $4.1 Million Sale of His Self-Replicating NFT Bidding started at $100 two weeks ago. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 23, 2021
