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 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
