Crime After Their Art Was Stolen on Campus, Yale MFA Students Demand That the University Take Responsibility for the Damages Yale currently does not take responsibility for any theft of student property. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 22, 2022
Galleries At 26, Cierra Britton Is Already Fulfilling Her Dream: Opening an Art Gallery Dedicated to Supporting Women of Color After raising $30,000 in crowdfunding and launching on Juneteenth, Cierra Britton opened her first gallery on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. By Folasade Ologundudu, Nov 22, 2022
Art Collectors What I Buy and Why: Venture Capitalist Jarl Mohn on How He Mounted a Three-Ton Michael Heizer Boulder in His Office He splits his collections of Minimalist/Light and Space art and pieces by emerging and underrecognized L.A. artists between his New York and Los Angeles homes. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 22, 2022
Museums & Institutions The Detroit Institute of Arts Was the First U.S. Museum to Buy a Van Gogh. Its New Show Explores Why Americans Were Slow to Warm to the Artist The exhibition "Van Gogh in America" charts which pieces were snapped up by U.S. museums and which ones got away. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 21, 2022
Pop Culture Meet Sunday Nobody, the Meme Artist Who Entombed a Bag of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos in a 3,000-Pound Sarcophagus Time Capsule The sarcophagus is to be opened in 10,000 years. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 21, 2022
Politics Activists Unfurled Red Banners in SFMOMA’s Atrium to Urge the Art World to Support Iran’s Women-Led Protests Anonymous activists did the same thing at Guggenheim last month. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 21, 2022
Museums & Institutions The Brooklyn Museum Is Expanding the Story of Art History With 200 Acquisitions Spanning Indigenous Textiles and Brand New Photography The highlights include a cache of watercolors by Emily Sargent, John Singer Sargent's overlooked sister. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 21, 2022
Politics More Than 1,500 Part-Time Faculty Are on Strike at the New School, Home of Parsons School of Design Pickets have flooded the streets around the New York institution this week. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 18, 2022
Politics Shirin Neshat, Nicky Nodjoumi, and Other Iranian Artists and Scholars Signed an Open Letter in Support of Student Protests in Tehran Protests began two months ago in response of the death of Mahsa Amini, who was arrested for violating Iran's hijab laws. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 18, 2022
Archaeology & History Egyptian Archaeologists Rewrite History With the Discovery of a Tomb of a Previously Unknown Queen The New Kingdom Tomb of Queen Neith, along with a cache of 300 coffins and 100 mummies, was unearthed at the ancient necropolis of Saqqara. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 17, 2022
Crime Two American Expats, Whose Guatemala Home Turned Up More Than 1,200 Pre-Hispanic Artifacts, Face Charges of Smuggling A raid of the couple's home uncovered archaeological objects, and significant works in jade and basalt. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 17, 2022
Museums & Institutions Did Leonardo Paint a Second ‘Salvator Mundi’? An Art Historian Found Evidence Suggesting His Studio Made Two Versions The clue lies in the drapery of Christ's sleeve. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 17, 2022
Market Meet Albert Willem, the Self-Taught Belgian Painter Whose Jokey Tableaux Are Suddenly Netting Six Figures at Auction Although he only made his auction debut this year, Willem's works are selling for ten times above their high estimates. By Annie Armstrong, Nov 16, 2022
Politics Artist Julia Weist Is Protesting the R Rating of Her New Film by Advertising the Project on a Times Square Billboard The film is inspired by research into historical censorship on the part of New York’s Motion Picture Division. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 16, 2022
Galleries Germany Pumped More Than €30 Million of Public Money Into the Commercial Art Market During the Pandemic. Was It Actually Needed? A report questioned whether galleries like Esther Schipper and Sprüth Magers should have benefited from the government program, which was not based on need. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Nov 16, 2022
