New York’s Last Payphone Kiosk, Removed from Midtown Last Month, Has Officially Become a Museum Artifact
Last month, New York City removed its last payphone kiosk, a relic of an analog age that in 2022 is…
Bitcoin’s plunge spells trouble for the dot-com era entrepreneur who went all in
Michael Saylor, chairman and chief executive officer of MicroStrategy, first got into bitcoin in 2020, when he decided to start…
Ernie Barnes Stole the Show at Christie’s With His $15.3 Million Painting. Here Are 3 Things You Might Not Know About ‘The Sugar Shack’
The unexpected star lot of last week’s Christie’s 20th century auction was The Sugar Shack, the most famous painting by Ernie…
Editors’ Picks: 14 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From Joan Jonas in Times Square to Art Inspired by Courtroom Dramas
Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events, both digitally and in-person in the…
See Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Boyhood Home, New York Studio, and Unseen Artworks in a Blockbuster Show Curated by His Family
Since his death at just 27 from a drug overdose in 1988, Jean-Michel Basquiat has become a legendary figure, immortalized…
Editors’ Picks: 12 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From Andy Goldsworthy’s Latest Project to a Book Release by Ben Davis
Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events, both digitally and in-person in the…
Artist Michelle Stuart on Why Her Decades-Long Interventions Into the Earth Are More Relevant Than Ever
If you enter Michelle Stuart’s current New York solo show, “The Imprints of Time, 1969–2021,” expecting to see Land Art,…
How Jo Nivison Hopper, Long Known as Wife and Model of Edward Hopper, Is Being Rediscovered as an Artistic Force in Her Own Right
You may have heard that Josephine “Jo” Nivison Hopper, wife of famed U.S. painter Edward Hopper, was a painter in…
In Pictures: See Beloved Author Beatrix Potter’s Magical Drawings From Nature as They Go on View in London
Nearly 80 years after her death, Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) remains among the world’s most beloved and popular children’s book authors,…
In Pictures: The Estate of J.R.R. Tolkein Publishes Rarely Seen Drawings From ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and Other Books
The estate of renown author J.R.R. Tolkien has released a new website featuring artworks, some previously unseen, by the author of The Hobbit and…
What I Buy and Why: Miami Collector Ellie Hayworth on Supporting Small Galleries and Fairs, and the ‘Gut-Punch’ Joy of Discovering New Artists
When art consultant Ellie Hayworth went to ride out lockdown with her parents in Miami in March 2020, she had…
Walter Price, Julie Mehretu, and Amy Sillman on the Works They Made in Honor of Toni Morrison for a New Exhibition on the Author
The late, great Toni Morrison, a giant of U.S. literature, died in 2019, at the age of 88. (Her 90th…
Art Speigelman Denounces Tennessee School District’s Ban of His Graphic Novel ‘Maus’: ‘It Has a Breath of Autocracy and Fascism’
A Tennessee school board has voted to ban Art Spiegelman’s landmark graphic novel Maus due to profanity and nudity. The book tells the…
Wes Anderson Is Adapting a Roald Dahl Book About Buried Treasure That Ended Up in the British Museum for Netflix
Filmmaker Wes Anderson has directed movies where famous paintings played a major role. Now, it appears he’s planning one about…
Looking to See Some Art Beyond a Fair Booth? Here Are 16 Museum and Gallery Shows to Visit During Art Basel Miami Beach 2021
During Miami Art Week (November 29–December 5), there will be plenty more to see beyond the Miami Beach Convention Center,…
‘Van Gogh’s Life Was Made for a Novelist’: Author Martin Bailey on the Artist’s Mysterious Last Days—and How He Really Died
Many of us know the story about the end of Vincent Van Gogh’s life, and how a mysterious madness ultimately caused…
‘We Were Speechless’: Restorers Uncover Pristine Elizabethan Murals Behind Peeling Paint in a Yorkshire Manor
Restorers at Calverley Old Hall, a medieval manor in Yorkshire, England, were recently shocked to discover a suite of Tudor wall…
A Trove of Recently Rediscovered Watercolors by Hilma af Klint Are Being Sold by David Zwirner, But Only an Institution Can Buy Them
A 2018 exhibition on the pioneering spiritual abstractionist Hilma af Klint’s (1862–1944) at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York essentially…