People Claes Oldenburg, the Leading Pop-Art Sculptor Who Turned Hamburgers and Erasers Into Whimsical Totems of the 20th Century, Has Died at 93 Oldenburg's monumental and playful outdoor sculptures can be seen all over the world. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 18, 2022
Auctions A Vampire-Hunting Kit Purportedly From the 19th Century Sells for $20,000 in the U.K., Exploding Its Meager $2,400 Estimate The hunting kit went to a collector in the U.K. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 15, 2022
Auctions Phillips Announces a Record $746 Million in Auction and Private Sales for First Half of 2022, Another Sign of the Peaking Art Market The auction house also revealed the opening of its first Los Angeles outpost. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 15, 2022
Museums & Institutions A Union Rally at the Philadelphia Museum Draws Protesters Blasting the Institution’s ‘Stonewalling’ on Contract Negotiations Museum staff unionized nearly two years ago, but they still don't have a new contract. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 15, 2022
Museums & Institutions ‘People Are Willing to Give Their Lives’: We Spoke to Ukrainians Who Are Risking Everything to Safeguard Their Country’s Art For some museum workers, who survived the 2014 annexation of Crimea, the scene is all too familiar. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 15, 2022
Auctions Sotheby’s Sold a Jean Prouvé Table for $1.6 Million Last Month—But Didn’t Mention It Might Contain Asbestos An eagle-eyed antique dealer realized there was more to the "Granipoli concrete" table than met the eye. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 14, 2022
Crime Florida Man Faces 20 Years in Prison for Allegedly Selling Cheap Prints as Multimillion-Dollar Artworks by Basquiat and Other Stars Why is it always a Florida man? By Sarah Cascone, Jul 14, 2022
Museums & Institutions A Plagiarism Row Ignited Over Paintings of a Black Cowboy at the Guggenheim. Now, Both Works Will Be Shown Side by Side The controversy exploded after some noticed a Spanish artist's paintings of a Black cowboy borrowed directly from a film by Dayday. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 13, 2022
NFTs The Calder Foundation Is Looking to Gamify Art History With a New Web3 Experience That Awards Official NFTs to Winners Proceeds from the NFTs will be used to fund conservation of Calder's sculptures. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 13, 2022
Auctions Christie’s Reports Total Sales Hit $4.1 Billion in the First Half of 2022, Its Best Performance Since 2015 Still, clouds were gathering on the horizon with respect to Asian buyers and NFT sales. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 12, 2022
Politics ‘It Felt Like an Overwhelming Collapse’: Artist Lisa Anne Auerbach on Why the Overturning of ‘Roe v. Wade’ Made Her Unraveling ‘Rights’ Work Go Viral Knitting becomes a powerful metaphor in the artist's work. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 12, 2022
Art & Tech See the Extraordinary First Images From NASA’s Webb Space Telescope, the Most Detailed Pictures Ever Taken of Deep Space After more than six months, we can finally see Webb's stunning views of the cosmos. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 12, 2022
Studio Visit See Inside Artist Duke Riley’s Brooklyn Navy Yard Studio, a Converted Submarine Factory With a Custom-Made Pigeon Coop The studio is filled with flotsam and jetsam. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 12, 2022
Art Fairs Art Basel’s Newest Exec, Vincenzo De Bellis, Is a Former Museum Curator. That May Be Just What the Show Needs As the Art Basel brand expands to four international events, a new senior leader is more important than ever. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 11, 2022
Art Collectors What I Buy and Why: Collector Melissa Neumann on Finding Her Spirituality in Art, and the Urgency of Supporting Living Artists She has most recently purchased works by Olivier Souffrant and Ridley Howard. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 11, 2022
