Exhibitions Legendary Curator Okwui Enwezor’s Final Show, ‘Postcolonial,’ Will Now Become a Reality in Sharjah The curator planned a sequel to his legendary “Postwar” exhibition as part of the next Sharjah Biennial. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 4, 2019
People The Clyfford Still Museum Uncovered a Trove of the Artist’s Tapes. Here Is What They Teach Us About One of History’s Most Private Painters The previously unknown recordings are the subject of “Lifeline: Clyfford Still,” a documentary that debuts in New York next week. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 4, 2019
Galleries Will Tech Billionaires Pay Up for Picasso? Pace’s Latest Show Brings the Artist’s Work to Facebook and Google’s Doorstep The gallery is marking its fifth anniversary in the city by organizing its first-ever major Picasso exhibition. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 4, 2019
On View Can a Session With a Medium Spark Creativity? These Artists Gave It a Try, and You Can See the Results in a New Show Each artist sat with a medium before making work for the New York exhibition. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 31, 2019
People Doris Salcedo, Whose Haunting Work Bears Witness to Dark Histories, Is the First Winner of a New $1 Million Japanese Art Prize Salcedo will use the $1 million Nomura Art Award to create a new work. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 31, 2019
Auctions Christie’s Is Selling a $50 Million Collection Featuring Georgia O’Keeffe and Frida Kahlo Flower Paintings and a Moody Magritte The collection will be sold across a series of sales through March. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 31, 2019
Politics Artist Phil Collins Pulls His Work From a MoMA PS1 Show in Protest of a Trustee’s Ties to For-Profit Prisons MoMA donor Larry Fink and his company BlackRock are under scrutiny. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 30, 2019
Politics Pakistani Authorities Shut Down a Show in the Karachi Biennial That Criticized the Government’s Extrajudicial Killings Adeela Sulemen's work was destroyed and called “vandalism.” By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 30, 2019
Art World Did Leonardo da Vinci Paint This Portrait of Machiavelli Found in a French Chateau? A 150-Year-Old Letter May Offer Some Insight Experts are split on the attribution. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 30, 2019
People George Lucas’s Museum of Narrative Art Hires the Met’s Education Department Whiz as Its New Director Sandra Jackson-Dumont will lead the new museum, which is set to open in late 2021. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 30, 2019
Art World A New Tour Gives You the Chance to See the Sistine Chapel at Night, Free From Crowds, for Just $76 See the Vatican by moonlight, without the crowds. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 29, 2019
Art World The Getty Museum Closes Its Doors as Wildfires Rage in California, But Says the Art Is Safe Inside Its Fireproof Building The Kincade fire in Sonoma has also forced the closure of the Charles M. Schulz Museum. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 29, 2019
Auctions A Late Billionaire Collector’s Foundation Is Selling Off Artworks by Bill Traylor and Others to Benefit a Harlem Children’s Charity The William Louise-Dreyfus Foundation is offering the work through Sotheby's, Christie's, and David Zwirner. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 28, 2019
Art and Law To Settle the Macklowe Divorce, a Court Will Ask a Famed Art Dealer to Sell Off Their $700 Million Art Collection—and Everyone Is Watching The hefty collection may be coming to an auction block near you soon. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 28, 2019
Galleries Chicago’s Shane Campbell Gallery Has Closed, Claiming the Art Industry Has Been ‘Muddled by Unbridled Capital’ The gallery made the surprise announcement on Instagram this weekend. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 28, 2019
