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 Pokémon Cards, Deemed ‘the Pinnacle of Pokémon Collecting,’ Just Fetched $408,000 at Auction It turns out playing with your Pokémon 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
Art World Hank Willis Thomas’s Poignant Memorial to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King Will Be Unveiled in Boston Next Fall The 22-foot-tall bronze monument depicts the couple mid-embrace. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 15, 2021
Law & Politics Artist Nick Cave’s Controversial Upstate New York Artwork Has Found a New Home at the Brooklyn Museum The public artwork has been attacked by the mayor of a small town where it was installed. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 15, 2021
Art World What Is the Best Way to Reopen an Art Museum After Lockdown? A New Guide From the National Endowment for the Arts Offers Six Practical Tips Consult with health professionals, embrace transparency, and document the whole process, the NEA advises. By Artnet News, Jan 14, 2021
Art World The First Blue Pigment Discovered in 200 Years Is Finally Commercially Available. Here’s Why It Already Has a Loyal Following Made from rare earth elements, YInMn Blue is shockingly expensive. But that's not stopping everyone. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 14, 2021
Art World Marian Goodman Gallery Will Fund Research Fellowships for BIPOC Curators in Honor of the Late Okwui Enwezor The program was designed by artist Steve McQueen and developed in partnership with Independent Curators International. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 13, 2021
Law & Politics Street Artist Futura Is Suing the North Face Clothing Company for Allegedly Stealing His Signature Motif for a Line of Outerwear “The North Face seems like they care a lot about being cool,” says the artist’s lawyer. “This is probably the most uncool thing they have ever done.” By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 13, 2021
Art World The Smithsonian Has Scrapped Its $2 Billion Bjarke Ingels Redesign in Favor of a Far More Modest Overhaul After cancelling plans to open a museum in London with the V&A, the Smithsonian is now scaling back its expansion at home in DC. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 12, 2021
People 3 Eye-Opening Facts About the Life and Work of the Beloved, Tormented, and Widely Misunderstood Painter Francis Bacon French writer Yves Peyré has published new information about his artist friend in a recent monograph. By Eileen Kinsella, Jan 11, 2021
