Art in Sensitive Times
The Art Newspaper - In the face of this the public art museum (by which I mean an institution that has a statutory as well as a moral responsibility to be of and for the public) has a difficult, but essential r...
Frieze shareholder Endeavor returns $400m investment to Saudi Arabia
The Art Newspaper - The deal was struck in April 2018 and gave the Saudi kingdom’s Public Investment Fund an equity stake of less than 10% in Endeavor. But, following the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Kh...
At the Armory Show, Solo Exhibitions and Colossal Displays
The New York Times - Along with a handful of other galleries clustered near the entrance to the fair on Pier 94, Tanya Bonakdar was in the first version of the Armory Show 25 years ago. Called The Gramercy Int...
A Regime Conceals Its Erasure of Indigenous Armenian Culture
Hyperallergic - In April 2011, when a US Ambassador traveled to Azerbaijan, on the southwestern edge of the former USSR, he was denied access to the riverside borderland that separates this South Caucasus natio...
Mary Boone sentenced to 30 months in jail for tax fraud
The Art Newspaper - The Manhattan art dealer Mary Boone was sentenced to 30 months in prison by the New York Southern District Court on two counts of tax fraud yesterday. Eligible for up to one year of supervis...
The Secret Sauce Fueling The Next Wave Of Intelligent Technology
Forbes - The cloud is now mainstream. In combination with mobile technology, social media, and Big Data, it’s been the driving force behind the digital transformation that’s enabled companies — from established...
THE POWER OF MEMORY AND MYTH
Art Forum - The fourteen paintings and drawings that comprise Maia Cruz Palileo’s debut solo exhibition in her native Chicago are, in essence, portraits of the Philippines, imagined as her family had once kno...
The History of Jewelry, from Ancient Mesopotamia to Today
Hyperallergic - Jewelry: The Body Transformed features some 230 intriguing objects from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s vast collection, from ancient Egyptian flip-flops made of gold to Alexander Calder’s loo...
Ernst Neizvestn at centre of legal row
The Art Newspaper - The work of Ernst Neizvestny, one of Russia’s most famous 20th-century artists and sculptors, held at his Shelter Island home and sculpture park on Long Island and in his Soho studio in New...
Art dealer Mary Boone claims early-life trauma prompted her criminal tax evasion
The Art Newspaper - Lawyers representing the New York-based art dealer Mary Boone, who faces criminal sentencing this month after she plead guilty to two counts of tax fraud in September 2018, have asked that s...