Music Executive Mo Ostin’s $120 M. Collection to be Auctioned at Sotheby’s, With Works by Magritte, Twombly, Basquiat, and More
A collection of more than 30 works amassed by American music executive Mo Ostin will be offered at Sotheby’s this spring, where it is expected...
Met Taps Nairy Baghramian and Jacolby Satterwhite for Commissions, Salvador Dalí Museum Opens Down Under, and More: Morning Links for April 11, 2023
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines PRIME TIME. Artists Nairy Baghramian and Jacolby Satterwhite have been tapped for high-profile commissions by the Metropolitan Museum of...
As Mental Health Crisis Grows, More Doors Open to Care
The pandemic and its lockdowns accelerated a mental health crisis in the United States, leaving treatment providers racing to keep up with the growing demand...
Defibrillators Can Save a Life, but Almost Nobody Has One at Home
On the evening of Jan. 15, 2021, in a remote Arizona desert town, Christine Benton saved a life. She and her husband, Brian Benton, were...
Ukraine Goes Dark: NASA Images Drive Home a Nation’s Anguish
No power, no lights, no water, no heat. In Ukraine over the past year, waves of Russian missiles have assailed the nation’s infrastructure, leading to...
In A.I. Race, Microsoft and Google Choose Speed Over Caution
In March, two Google employees, whose jobs are to review the company’s artificial intelligence products, tried to stop Google from launching an A.I. chatbot. They...
Hong Kong’s M+ Museum Is Giving Away 10,000 Tickets to Its Blockbuster Kusama Show
In the rare interviews that she has given, Yayoi Kusama has described art as a lifeline through a lifetime of crisis. Plagued by visual and...
Wanted: Dead British Body to ‘Sacrifice for Past Sins’ Against Indigenous People, Reads Artist Ad
We’ve heard of bodies being donated to science, but would you donate your body to art? An advertisement placed by an Indigenous artist in an...
Comedian Hannah Gadsby to Curate Show About Picasso’s ‘Complicated Legacy’ for Brooklyn Museum
Five years after they memorably skewered Pablo Picasso in their 2018 comedy special Nanette, Hannah Gadsby is organizing an exhibition about the artist for the...
Italian Land Artist Creates ‘World’s Largest’ Picasso Portrait
Picasso’s legacy looms large over the art world ever since the world first saw his Cubist masterpiece Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907). Now, thanks to Italian land artist...
Pfizer CEO and Other Drug Company Leaders Condemn Texas Abortion Pill Ruling
The pharmaceutical industry plunged into a legal showdown over the abortion pill mifepristone on Monday, issuing a scorching condemnation of a ruling by a federal...
Justice Department Recently Looked Into Twitter, Lawsuit Says
A lawsuit filed on Monday by several former Twitter executives said they had personally spent more than $1 million on legal expenses related to shareholder...
Hoping to Draw Moviegoers and Filmmakers, Amazon Heads to Theaters
It was a full house at the AMC Town Square in Las Vegas in September when Ben Affleck slipped into the darkened theater. He wanted...
Conceptual Artist Adrian Piper Ends Relationship with LGDR, a Power Player in the Art Market
Adrian Piper, a famed artist and philosopher known for her performances, writings, and conceptual artworks dealing with racism and rationality, has publicly severed ties with...