Art World Art Basel Cities Creator Patrick Foret on How the Experimental New Initiative Works—Even Amid an Economic Crisis As Art Basel Cities takes shape in Buenos Aires during a currency collapse, Andrew Goldstein spoke to the visionary behind the project. By Andrew Goldstein, Sep 9, 2018
On View A ‘Watershed’ Moment: Artist Diana Thater on the Challenges and Rewards of Inaugurating ICA Boston’s New Harbor Space Thater says the project was the most difficult installation she's ever done. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 1, 2018
Art Fairs Seattle Art Fair Artistic Director Nato Thompson on How to Cut the Crap and Connect With an Audience The Creative Time alum speaks with artnet News's editor-in-chief Andrew Goldstein about the intersection of art and tech and how to add heft to art-fair programming. By Andrew Goldstein, Aug 1, 2018
People ‘It’s All a Surprise’: Luchita Hurtado Is Enjoying a Star-Making Turn in the Hammer Biennial at the Age of 97 For decades, the inventive painter's career took a back seat to those of her more famous family members. Not anymore. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 5, 2018
People Meet the Man Who Made a Living Selling North Korean Art to the West—Until UN Sanctions Got in the Way Pier Luigi Cecioni talks about the art world of Pyongyang, what the country's artists think about contemporary art, and why North Korean art matters. By Kate Brown, Jul 4, 2018
People ‘There Is So Much You Go Through Just Trying to Make It’: Amy Sherald on How She Went From Obscurity to a Museum Survey (and the White House) The artist on the strange side effects of fame, new directions in her work, and the aspirations she's almost afraid to articulate. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 19, 2018
People Art Basel’s Marc Spiegler on Why Art Fairs Aren’t to Blame for the Current Gallery Crisis We spoke to the fair empire's global director in advance of Art Basel's opening. By Andrew Goldstein, Jun 10, 2018
People ‘The Whole Way of Collecting Has Changed’: Christie’s Loïc Gouzer on the Regrettable Rise of the ADD Art Collector artnet News's Andrew Goldstein spoke to the auction-house rainmaker about why no one wants to learn about art anymore. By Andrew Goldstein, Jun 6, 2018
People Is Loïc Gouzer the Federer of the Art Market? A Q&A With the Irrepressible Christie’s Maverick Who Sold ‘Salvator Mundi’ We speak to the man behind the record-shattering $450 million sale about his unique approach to the auction game. By Andrew Goldstein, Jun 5, 2018
People Met CEO Daniel Weiss on the Met Breuer’s Future, and Whether Affirmative Action Has a Place in the Museum World The Met CEO discusses the role of the encyclopedic museum in an increasingly restive society hungry for change. By Andrew Goldstein, May 9, 2018
People ‘He Isn’t a Compromise. He’s a Star’: Met CEO Daniel Weiss on Why Max Hollein Will Usher in a New Era for the Museum The future of the institution, however, will be decided by the two men, together. By Andrew Goldstein, May 7, 2018
Politics ‘National Geographic’ Turned to a Photo Historian to Help Reckon With Its Colonialist Past. Even He Was Unsettled by What He Found John Edwin Mason, a historian of race and photography, spoke to Ben Davis about examining the famed magazine's troubled history. By Ben Davis, Mar 21, 2018
Art Fairs Has Art Basel Become the Facebook of the Art World? An Interview With Marc Spiegler After 10 years leading the largest art fair company in the world, Marc Spiegler reflects on Art Basel's evolving role in the market landscape. By Andrew Goldstein, Mar 19, 2018
Galleries Team Gallery’s Jose Freire on Why He Is Quitting Art Fairs for Good The veteran art dealer explains why he has soured on the art market's central apparatus. By Andrew Goldstein, Mar 4, 2018
People Newfields Director Charles Venable on Why Art Museums as We Know Them Cannot Survive The controversial museum director explains why audiences today are turned off by Rembrandt and why museums should stop growing—and start shrinking. By Andrew Goldstein, Feb 14, 2018
