On View ‘Our Energy Speaks First’: Meet the Artist Who Has Been Photographing Visitors’ Auras at the Whitney Museum Discover what the artist Christina Lonsdale had to say about our reporter's electromagnetic energy. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 26, 2019
Art World Can Art Change Minds About Climate Change? New Research Says It Can—But Only If It’s a Very Specific Kind of Art Only three works out of 37 left viewers feeling inspired to take action. Here's what they had in common. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 26, 2019
Partner Content Before the Galleries Close Up Shop This August, Here Are 5 Summer Group Shows You Won’t Want to Miss By Katie White, Jul 25, 2019
People With Warren Kanders Gone, the Eight Whitney Biennial Artists Will Keep Their Work in the Show After All Prominent works by Nicole Eisenman, Nicholas Galanin, and others will remain in place. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 25, 2019
Art World The Baltimore Museum Art, Home to the Largest Public Collection of Matisse Works, Is Opening a Study Center Dedicated to the Artist The new center is set to open in 2021. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 25, 2019
Art World Europe’s Largest Public Artwork Will Rise Above a Highway in Belgium, 35 Years After France Rejected It Bernar Venet's monumental sculpture spans two sides of a busy highway. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 25, 2019
Art World Asian Art Advocates Accuse the Shed of ‘Yellow-Face Casting’ in Its Kung-Fu Musical. But Its Director Says the Character Is Actually White Advocacy groups wrote a letter calling the "Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise" casting "offensive and unacceptable." By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 24, 2019
The Big Interview ‘Museums Are Contested Sites’: The Art Institute of Chicago’s James Rondeau on Why He Finds the Current Moment So Electrifying The director of the Art Institute of Chicago explains the thinking behind the museum's postponement of a show of Mimbres pottery. By Andrew Goldstein, Jul 23, 2019
Art and Law The Portland Museum of Art Wins Its $4.6 Million Lawsuit Against a Caretaker Accused of Coercing an Elderly Donor Into Changing Her Will The elderly woman signed over her estate to her caregiver—rather than the museum and her family—shortly before she died. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 23, 2019
Art World Volcanologists Are Mad That Excavations to Uncover Roman Artifacts in Pompeii May Hinder Their Study of Ancient Lava Volcanologists are facing off with archeologists over the value of ancient artifacts vs. ancient lava. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 23, 2019
Events and Parties Editors’ Picks: 19 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week From the Watermill Gala to the latest batch of summer group shows, here's what we recommend this week. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 22, 2019
Art World Street Art Pioneer Fab 5 Freddy Looks to Renaissance Art for Lessons About Race in His New BBC Film—and Rides a Horse While Doing It Fab 5 Freddy opens up about his childhood, his love of museums, and his friendship with Basquiat for the BBC. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 22, 2019
Partner Content How 3 Chinese Artists Are Reinventing Centuries-Old Traditions With Their Latest Bodies of Work The exhibitions are taking place in Los Angeles, New York, and Weidingen, Germany. By Katie White, Jul 19, 2019
Partner Content Photographer Isabel Muñoz on Finding Beauty in Unexpected Places, From the Congo to the Yakuza The Spanish photographer has a history of approaching unlikely subjects. By Sophie Neuendorf, Jul 19, 2019
Art World Amid the Rise of Italy’s Far Right, Curator Francesco Bonami Has Founded His Own Satirical Italian-Art-First Political Party Bonami’s EXAGERAMOS! party will ban all non-Italian artists from participating in the Venice Biennale, among other edicts. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 19, 2019
