Savannah Knoop stumbled into art in a uniquely personal—and public—way. Two decades ago, when Knoop, who uses the pronoun “they,” was just 19 years old, “Savannah Knoop Spent Six Years Posing as Literary Wunderkind JT LeRoy. Now the Artist Has a Show About Being an ‘Unreliable Narrator’“
Foreign Museum Directors in Italy Face Losing Their Jobs After the Country’s Culture Minister Says He Wants More Italians in Charge
Italy’s culture minister has left the directors of many its most famous museums wondering if they will be out of a job at the end “Foreign Museum Directors in Italy Face Losing Their Jobs After the Country’s Culture Minister Says He Wants More Italians in Charge“
The Little-Known Story of How Brexit Plotters Hatched Their Plans in the Galleries of Tate Britain
In the early days of the Vote Leave campaign to bring about the UK’s withdrawal from Europe, a small group of hardline Eurosceptics, who eventually “The Little-Known Story of How Brexit Plotters Hatched Their Plans in the Galleries of Tate Britain“
Veteran Curator Marc-Olivier Wahler Hopes His New Paris Art Center Will Draw in People by Accident
Just days after stepping down from the directorship of the MSU Broad Art Museum, where he held the top job since July 2016, Marc-Olivier Wahler is “Veteran Curator Marc-Olivier Wahler Hopes His New Paris Art Center Will Draw in People by Accident“
Art Industry News: Welsh Garage Owner Sells His Christmas Present From Banksy for Six Figures + Other Stories
Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need “Art Industry News: Welsh Garage Owner Sells His Christmas Present From Banksy for Six Figures + Other Stories“
A Scammer Pretending to Be Wendi Deng Murdoch Duped Two Photographers Out of Thousands of Dollars
Con artists taking on the identity of Wendi Deng Murdoch, an art collector and ex-wife of newspaper mogul Rupert Murdoch, duped two American travel photographers “A Scammer Pretending to Be Wendi Deng Murdoch Duped Two Photographers Out of Thousands of Dollars“
KAWS Is Unveiling an Enormous 11-Story Sculpture in Taipei, His Largest Work to Date
Street artist and art market darling KAWS will present an enormous new inflatable artwork in Taipei, his first in the Taiwanese capital, on Saturday. It is “KAWS Is Unveiling an Enormous 11-Story Sculpture in Taipei, His Largest Work to Date“
From Kanye West’s $10 Million Gift to Jeff Koons’s Latest Round of Layoffs: The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week
BEST Kanye West Loves James Turrell – The outspoken rapper (and political commentator) donated $10 million to James Turrell’s ongoing Roden Crater project after visiting the site in “From Kanye West’s $10 Million Gift to Jeff Koons’s Latest Round of Layoffs: The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week“
Gallery-Share Initiative Condo Launches a VIP App to Connect Galleries and Collectors
How do art collectors know the fair price for a work in an industry filled with wheeler dealers? Well, there’s now an app for that. The “Gallery-Share Initiative Condo Launches a VIP App to Connect Galleries and Collectors“
‘We’re All in Freefall’: Museum Workers Scramble for Cash Amid the Longest US Government Shutdown in History
If a government shutdown falls on federally-funded cultural institutions and furloughed employees are prohibited from checking work email and discussing their predicaments publicly, does that “‘We’re All in Freefall’: Museum Workers Scramble for Cash Amid the Longest US Government Shutdown in History“