Crime The Employee Who Allegedly Stole Artifacts From the British Museum Has Been Identified as a Senior Curator of Greek and Roman Art Peter John Higgs is suspected of pocketing the objects and selling them on eBay over the course of years. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 18, 2023
On View ‘I Never Wanted to Be Avant-Garde’: Heji Shin Doesn’t Claim Her Provocative Photographs Are Intellectual, But Many of Her Biggest Fans Are You won't find any naked bodies in “The Big Nudes” the artist's new show 52 Walker. Then again maybe you will. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 18, 2023
Museums Unionized Workers at the Art Institute of Chicago Have Ratified a ‘Landmark’ First Contract, Ending 15 Months of Negotiations The deal guarantees pay bumps and job transparency measures for more than 500 employees. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 17, 2023
Crime The British Museum Has Fired an Employee After Discovering Valuable Objects Missing From Its Collection The museum has launched an investigation to recover the jewelry, semi-precious stones, and other objects. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 16, 2023
Law A Curator Is Suing the Worcester Museum of Art in Massachusetts for Discrimination and ‘Offensive Behavior’ She said she was “mocked and ridiculed because she is a brown-skinned South Asian.” By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 14, 2023
Art World The ‘New Yorker’ Names Jackson Arn Its New Art Critic, Succeeding the Late Peter Schjeldahl Arn recently reviewed shows by Yayoi Kusama, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Sarah Sze for the magazine. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 11, 2023
Politics Ukraine Has Launched an Online Database That Lists Artworks Owned by Sanctioned Russians The goal of the project is to prevent Russian oligarchs from using art to evade sanctions and launder money. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 9, 2023
Law President Biden Has Designated One Million Acres of Arizona Land a New National Monument, Protecting the Region from Mining It’s the fifth monument the Biden administration has established since 2021. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 8, 2023
Law Acclaimed Artist Jeffrey Gibson Is Suing Chicago Dealer Kavi Gupta for Allegedly Withholding More Than $600,000 in Pay The Chicago dealer has denied Gibson’s claims, saying the gallery already paid the money in production expenses. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 8, 2023
Museums Activists Call the Rubin Museum’s Funding of a Nepalese Institution a Bid to ‘Divert Attention’ From Stolen Artifacts in Its Own Collection Demonstrators protested the opening of the Rubin-funded museum in a historic Nepalese monastery last month. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 2, 2023
Museums The Hermitage Amsterdam Has Settled With a Belgian Magazine That Claimed the Museum Stole Its Brand Identity As part of the agreement, the magazine will adopt a new name this September. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 1, 2023
Crime An Autistic Woman Has Filed a Lawsuit Claiming MoMA Trustee Leon Black Raped Her at Jeffrey Epstein’s Mansion When She Was 16 This is the third lawsuit in the past three years confronting the embattled billionaire with similar allegations. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 1, 2023
Shows & Exhibitions Actor Anna Deavere Smith Will Deliver the 2024 Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery of Art in a Novel Format: Performance Smith’s performance is conceived as a sequel to her 2015 piece, “That Which Is Not Me.” By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 31, 2023
Galleries Artist and Activist Jesse Krimes, Whose Work Reflects His Experience While Incarcerated, Has Joined Jack Shainman Krimes also heads the Center for Art and Advocacy, a new non-profit dedicated to mentoring justice-impacted creatives. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 28, 2023
Shows & Exhibitions Performa Biennial 2023 Brings Together New Work by Marcel Dzama, Julien Creuzet, and Several Artists Working in the Medium for the First Time Set to run from November 1–19 in New York, the show marks Performa’s 10th biennial since the organization’s founding in 2004. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 28, 2023