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Auctions

Banksy Can Insult Collectors All He Wants—It Won’t Stop Them From Buying, His Sold-Out $1.4 Million Christie’s Online Auction Proves

A sarcastically titled sale of Banksy works drew eager buyers who didn't seem to mind the artist calling them "morons."

By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 25, 2019

On View

Did Forensic Architecture Prove That Police Unlawfully Killed a Man? The Collective’s New Work Breaks Down a Tragedy, Frame by Frame

The project investigates the case of Harith Augustus.

By Sarah Cascone, Sep 25, 2019

People

Artists Cameron Rowland, Mel Chin, and Jeffrey Gibson Are Among the 2019 MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant Winners

The winners will receive $625,000 in unrestricted grant money, distributed over five years.

By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 25, 2019

People

Famed Writer Susan Sontag Had a Brief Affair With Jasper Johns—and It Ended When He Left Her at a New Year’s Eve Party

The affair, according to a new biography of Sontag by Benjamin Moser, started in 1965.

By Sarah Cascone, Sep 25, 2019

Auctions

An Elderly Woman Discovered She Had Been Storing a Rare Renaissance Painting in Her Kitchen—and It Could Fetch $6 Million at Auction Next Month

The 13th-century painting hung over a hot plate in the home of a 90-year-old woman.

By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 24, 2019

Analysis

At Home and Abroad, the Market for Chinese Art and Antiquities Sharply Declined in 2018, Our Exclusive Auction Report Reveals

Sales of Fine Chinese paintings and calligraphy—the largest collecting category in mainland China—experienced a major decline.

By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 24, 2019

Art Fairs

Curator and Editor Robin Peckham Has Been Named Co-Director of the Upstart Taipei Dangdai Art Fair

Peckham will work alongside fair co-founder Magnus Renfrew to oversee the second edition.

By artnet News, Sep 24, 2019

Art and Law

More Than 200 Artworks by an Eminent Kazakhstani Art Collective Are Being Held Hostage by Unpaid Contractors After a Splashy International Exhibition

The project "Focus Kazakhstan" was meant to elevate the country's art, but mismanagement has resulted in allegedly damaged work and lack of payment.

By Kate Brown, Sep 24, 2019

Politics

Greta Thunberg Went Inside an Art Bubble Filled With Pollution This Weekend to Raise Awareness About Climate Change

The immersive "Pollution Pods" artwork, stationed outside the UN, replicates air conditions in polluted cities like New Delhi and Beijing.

By Sarah Cascone, Sep 24, 2019

Exhibitions

Robert Colescott Influenced a Generation of African American Artists. Now, a Major Retrospective Puts His Irreverent Art Front and Center

“Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott” asked the question directly: Why isn't Colescott better known?

By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 24, 2019

Auctions

KAWS for Concern? 25 Works by the White-Hot Street Artist Are About to Flood the Market in Sotheby’s Sale of Ryan Brant’s Estate

Could the late video-game entrepreneur's KAWS collection be too much of a good thing for the market?

By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 23, 2019

On View

A New Contemporary Art Space Opens on New York’s Governors Island, Complete With a Yoko Ono ‘Wish Tree’

The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council has debuted the island's first permanent art space.

By Sarah Cascone, Sep 23, 2019

Art Fairs

What Can Contemporary Photography Tell Us About China Today? Here Are 7 of the Most Arresting Images at Photofairs Shanghai 2019

From Wang Ling's images documenting the plight of the Uyghurs to a sweeping portrait of a changing China, here are the works we are still thinking about.

By Andrew Goldstein, Sep 23, 2019

On View

See 46 Extraordinary Michelangelo Drawings That Were Missing From the Met’s Blockbuster Show—But Are Now Coming to Cleveland

The works come from the collection of Queen Christina of Sweden and are borrowed from the Teylers Museum in the Netherlands.

By Sarah Cascone, Sep 23, 2019

Politics

The National Gallery in London and the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin Are Hatching a Secretive Agreement Ahead of Brexit to Share Paintings

The plan would renew a historic agreement that settled a long-simmering dispute over Impressionist masterpieces.

By Javier Pes, Sep 20, 2019

Banksy Can Insult Collectors All He Wants—It Won’t Stop Them From Buying, His Sold-Out $1.4 Million Christie’s Online Auction Proves

Did Forensic Architecture Prove That Police Unlawfully Killed a Man? The Collective’s New Work Breaks Down a Tragedy, Frame by Frame

Artists Cameron Rowland, Mel Chin, and Jeffrey Gibson Are Among the 2019 MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant Winners

Famed Writer Susan Sontag Had a Brief Affair With Jasper Johns—and It Ended When He Left Her at a New Year’s Eve Party

An Elderly Woman Discovered She Had Been Storing a Rare Renaissance Painting in Her Kitchen—and It Could Fetch $6 Million at Auction Next Month

At Home and Abroad, the Market for Chinese Art and Antiquities Sharply Declined in 2018, Our Exclusive Auction Report Reveals

Curator and Editor Robin Peckham Has Been Named Co-Director of the Upstart Taipei Dangdai Art Fair

More Than 200 Artworks by an Eminent Kazakhstani Art Collective Are Being Held Hostage by Unpaid Contractors After a Splashy International Exhibition

Greta Thunberg Went Inside an Art Bubble Filled With Pollution This Weekend to Raise Awareness About Climate Change

Robert Colescott Influenced a Generation of African American Artists. Now, a Major Retrospective Puts His Irreverent Art Front and Center

KAWS for Concern? 25 Works by the White-Hot Street Artist Are About to Flood the Market in Sotheby’s Sale of Ryan Brant’s Estate

A New Contemporary Art Space Opens on New York’s Governors Island, Complete With a Yoko Ono ‘Wish Tree’

What Can Contemporary Photography Tell Us About China Today? Here Are 7 of the Most Arresting Images at Photofairs Shanghai 2019

See 46 Extraordinary Michelangelo Drawings That Were Missing From the Met’s Blockbuster Show—But Are Now Coming to Cleveland

The National Gallery in London and the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin Are Hatching a Secretive Agreement Ahead of Brexit to Share Paintings

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