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A Former Sotheby’s Accountant Claims He Was Denied Employee Benefits
Sotheby’s triumphed in 2021 with a record that included consolidated sales of $7.3 billion, but the storied auction house is also currently contending with a class-action lawsuit filed against the...
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Broadway’s Palace Theatre Has Begun Its 8 Week, 30 Foot Ascent
On Friday, at a Times Square intersection that boasts the title of highest-trafficked corner in the Western Hemisphere—developer David Levinson, the Chairman & CEO of L&L Holding Company, told...
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A Cynic’s Fairy Tale: On the Met’s “Surrealism Beyond Borders”
Late one night in 1939, Leonora Carrington’s lover Max Ernst was dragged away to a concentration camp. Carrington fled to Spain where she was institutionalized for insanity, a horrific experience she...
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Germany Is Still Proving It’s Way Better at Arts Relief Than the U.S.
For many different reasons over the past few years, Germany has proven itself to be a progressive and forward-thinking country when it comes to the support of its artistic community, and it seems that...
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Judilee Reed Is the New President and CEO of United States Artists
On Tuesday, United States Artists, which has long played a pivotal role in the support of artists across the country, announced the appointment of Judilee Reed as the new President and CEO. Ever since...
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Botticelli’s ‘Man of Sorrows’ Could Break Records Later This Month
It’s a brand new year on the auction circuit, and different institutions will be fighting tooth and nail to present artwork of the highest pedigree; the stuff that inspires true fascination. On...
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Wages at Museums are Rising, But So Too is Inflation
Federal arts funding in the United States is something of a sore subject: in comparison to other places around the world, creatives in this country function in near-perpetual states of uncertainty,...
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More Cambodian Relics Linked to Douglas Latchford are Going Home
American efforts to return scores of artifacts and relics to the countries from which they were illegally obtained are ongoing, and oftentimes the individual episodes are jaw-dropping. According to...
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Editors on Wikipedia Don’t Believe NFTs Count As Art
Since NFTs came to dominate conversations in the art world regarding the future of ownership, digital creation and shifting aesthetic goalposts, auction houses and collectors alike have scrambled to...
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Prince Charles’s New Watercolor Exhibition Launches Amidst Royal Drama
Given that the British Royal Family is the steward of one of the largest private art collections in the world, its no surprise that some of its most prominent members have nurtured artistic pursuits:...
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How Long Do Banksy Murals Remain Untouched, Anyway?
To borrow a line from The Giant, a haunting Twin Peaks character who appears to Dale Cooper in visions: it is happening again. According to new reports, a Banksy mural that the elusive artist created...
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Before He Painted Water Lilies, Monet Was Obsessed With Chrysanthemums
There’s nothing more fascinating than a transitional period: decades after their deaths, famous artists have been canonized in the collective imagination so thoroughly that only their most well-known...
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André Leon Talley, a Fashion World Trailblazer and Icon, Is Dead at 73
André Leon Talley, a pre-eminent figure in the heyday of glossy fashion magazines and the first Black man to hold the position of creative director of Vogue, has passed after a heart attack at the age...
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Getting Jailed for Spitting on a Putin Photo Was Wrongful Imprisonment, Court...
In 2012, the night before Vladimir Putin was inaugurated for his third term as Russia’s president, activist Dmitry Karuyev was arrested for allegedly spitting on a photograph of Putin during a protest...
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Tracey Emin Wants ‘More Passion’ Removed from 10 Downing Street
British artist Tracey Emin seized hold of the outer fringes of “confessional art” long before the rest of the world normalized that stratum of artistic expression, so it comes as no surprise that Emin...
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Perrotin’s ‘Late Night Enterprise’ Makes a Fresh Argument for Transgression
It’s not a great time for transgression. Mask wearers and non-mask wearers alike are snapped at for their choices; venturing outside your home with a positive test result before your quarantine’s...
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Immersive Art Experiences in Las Vegas: Screensavers by Any Other Name
Mythology is an umbrella beneath which you can put all manner of bull. On one hand, gravitas, legacy, tradition, respect as a shorthand. On the other, lies, inflated ego, hot air, misinformation. Las...
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New York’s Roosevelt Statue Is Finally Being Disassembled
This week, after months of planning and a much longer period of controversy, the equestrian statue of president Theodore Roosevelt that stood in front of New York’s American Museum of Natural History...
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Twitter’s New NFT Profile Picture Feature Is Drawing Mixed Reactions
On Thursday, devoted users of Twitter (which accounts for many of the platform’s users, given its addictive qualities) were taken aback at the sight of a sudden prompt the app was feeding them:...
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Thierry Mugler, Fashion’s King of Alien Couture, Is Dead at 73
It seems to be a bad time for luminaries in the arts. Mere weeks after the successive deaths of sensuous scene chronicler Eve Babitz, California genius Joan Didion, influential designer Virgil Abloh...
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