How MoMA Remade Itself for the Trump Era

How an Artist’s $120,000 Banana Ate the World: At the start of December, the Art Angle team had other, loftier ideas for the show's first Christmas episode. Maybe we would dig into the most important developments in the art world this past year or examine the in Hong Kong and their . But then, we... by The Art Angle

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New Yorker Art Scribe Calvin Tomkins on What Makes Great Artists Tick: Six decades ago, an editor at Newsweek magazine summoned a young journalist named Calvin Tomkins out of the foreign-news department to interview the legendary conceptual artist Marcel Duchamp, who had allegedly left art-making in favor of playing... by The Art Angle

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Anish Kapoor on "Radical" Art, China, and the Magic Paint Wars: Already one of the world's most renowned and visible artists, Anish Kapoor is entering new territory by opening multiple major exhibitions on opposite ends of the Earth within a few weeks of each other this fall. On October 25, he debuted twin shows... by The Art Angle

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Is the Museum of Ice Cream the Future of Art, or Just a Sugar Rush?: There's a buzzy new museum taking over New York, and it boasts the types of specs that would make competitors drool. Now housed in a in the hip SoHo neighborhood, this fresh destination has welcomed more than 1.5 million visitors since it... by The Art Angle

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What Is Saudi Arabia Trying to Do With Contemporary Art?: Some 16 months after the brutal murder of Washington Post at the hands of state agents, the organization behind the namesake Southern California biennial Desert X announced that it would put on an ambitious new exhibition of contemporary art in ,... by The Art Angle

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How Yayoi Kusama Became an Unlikely Pop-Culture Phenomenon: The 90-year-old Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is an international sensation. Exhibitions featuring her ongoing series of “Infinity Mirrored Rooms” consistently draw tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of visitors from all walks of life, with many... by The Art Angle

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Why Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre Matters: To mark the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death, the Louvre to present a blockbuster exhibition of some of the Old Master's greatest works, along with to help viewers see his contributions in a whole new way. But do these moves manage to... by The Art Angle

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How Photography Is Being Revolutionized in the Coronavirus Era: Today, Antwaun Sargent is known as the preeminent critical and curatorial voice for one of the most important movements in contemporary photography. Along with its accompanying exhibition, his book, , stands as an important statement on a... by The Art Angle

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Hans Neuendorf on 30 Years of Artnet, and What Comes Next: Hans Neuendorf had already built a storied career as an art dealer by the late 1980s, helping to bring Pop art from the United States to Germany, co-founding the first-ever art fair (Art Cologne), and putting his resources behind homegrown star-to-be... by The Art Angle

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How Hollywood Finally Fell for the Art Market: The Oscars may be over, but Hollywood is about to be overrun with a different kind of A-lister this week when the art world descends on Tinseltown for the of Frieze Los Angeles. Despite the glut of disposable income earned from media moguls and tech... by The Art Angle

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The Unbelievable True Story of the Mystical Painter Agnes Pelton: Art history thrives on stories of fearless visionaries leaving behind the lives they've known to embark on journeys into uncertain lands for personal enrichment and artistic illumination. But few are as surprising as that of Agnes Pelton, the... by The Art Angle

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How Jeffrey Epstein Made the Art World His Hunting Ground: Over the past few weeks, the long-awaited trial of former Hollywood rainmaker Harvey Weinstein has unfolded in harrowing fashion, with one after another of his accusers taking the stand to allege patterns of sexual and psychological abuse. The grim... by The Art Angle

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Who Is Sotheby's Mysterious New Owner, and What Does He Want?: Normally, the week following Art Basel in June sees the art market begin its downshift into the summer doldrums. But this year, on what nearly everyone expected to be a quiet Monday, the usual cycle was disrupted by a breaking-news earthquake:... by The Art Angle

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How MoMA Remade Itself for the Trump Era: After over $400 million in renovations and a multiple-month closure to the public, the Museum of Modern Art is back. National art critic Ben Davis sits down with host Andrew Goldstein to address the curators' attempts to decenter the Western canon,... by The Art Angle

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The New Yorker's Peter Schjeldahl on His Adventures in Life as an Accidental Art Critic: In his 2019 essay "The Art of Dying," acclaimed critic Peter Schjeldahl describes Patsy Cline's voice as "attending selflessly to the sounds and the senses of the words... consummate." The same could be said about Schjeldahl's incomparable writing... by The Art Angle

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What Does an Art Scene Look Like Under the Coronavirus?: Usually, the first weeks of March are intensely busy ones for the international art community, as they lead up to the Art Basel Hong Kong art fair: an unmissable event that galleries, museums, and even other cultural sectors in the region have used as... by The Art Angle

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Three Ways Coronavirus Will Transform the Art World: In the past month, the world—and by extension, the art world—has changed so drastically that it is almost unrecognizable. While the novel 2019 coronavirus continues to threaten countries around the globe and industries of all types, major and... by The Art Angle

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Art Basel Rules the Art Market. Is That a Good Thing for Art?: This week, what seems like the entire art industry, every luxury company, and every celebrity or status-seeker available will be traveling to south Florida for , the final stop on the annual art-market calendar—as well as a champagne-soaked... by The Art Angle

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Ai Weiwei on the Coronavirus, China, and Art's New Role: Ai Weiwei is not shy about tackling the big issues. Despite winning international acclaim for his interdisciplinary, boundary-pushing art, the Chinese-born artist is better known in some circles for his activism—though in his estimation, the two are... by The Art Angle

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What Do the Protests in Hong Kong Mean for Art?: Above and beyond its well-established status as a global financial center, Hong Kong has spent the 21st century rapidly transforming into an international nexus for the art market: welcoming to both Eastern and Western collectors, appealing to... by The Art Angle

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Art Critic Jerry Saltz on Why It's Time to Build a New Art World: It's not often that you find an art critic—or anyone, for that matter—who can claim upwards of 400,000 Instagram followers, a Pulitzer Prize, and appearances on an as achievements of the past decade. But Jerry Saltz can. A look at his unlikely... by The Art Angle

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Nicolas Party on Why Being an Art Star Is Like Being in Love: After a period of reckoning with a less-than-inclusive art historical canon, it seems increasingly clear that viewers (and dealers) are once again ready to embrace fresh young talent from the land of the living—artists bringing new perspectives and... by The Art Angle

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Futurist Doug Stephens on What Art Dealers Can Learn From the Retail Revolution: In a published in the Business of Fashion, Canadian futurist Doug Stephens opined on the likely realities of the commercial ecosystem that will emerge from the Great Shutdown. He predicted an economy in which behemoths like Amazon will reign... by The Art Angle

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How an Art-Dealing Prodigy Became the Market's Most Wanted Outlaw: A man on the run, millions of dollars missing, major artworks with multiple claims to ownership: these aren't plot points in the latest Hollywood blockbuster, they're elements of the of the young art dealer Inigo Philbrick. The son of a lauded museum... by The Art Angle

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YouTube’s No-Nonsense Art Guru on How to Unlock Your Inner Artist: How many times have you heard someone in a museum scoff "I could do that" in the presence of a solid-black canvas or an obtuse conceptual installation? You're not alone, and frankly, curator-turned-YouTube-star Sarah Urist Green understands the... by The Art Angle

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How the Wellness Revolution Just Arrived in the Art World: A blue neon sign reading "You Belong Here" has become a new kind of beacon in Long Beach, California recently. The light sculpture by artist Tavares Strachan exists to welcome visitors to , a soon-to-debut multidisciplinary space fusing wellness... by The Art Angle

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How to Understand the Radical, Viral Artworks That Defined the 2010s: As a barrage of retrospective pieces from countless publications (including Artnet News) made clear throughout December 2019, the opening moments of 2020 signal , not just a new year. Looking back, the 2010s seem to be defined by one intense... by The Art Angle

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Why Germany's COVID-19 Relief Plan Is the Envy of the Art World: Although the coronavirus pandemic is first and foremost a public-health emergency, it rapidly proved to be a deep financial emergency, too. With businesses and cultural institutions around the world forced to shutter en masse in the face of... by The Art Angle

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Is the Art World Causing a Climate Catastrophe?: For our latest episode, team Art Angle traveled to Art Basel Miami Beach to examine a much thornier and more urgent issue than the glamorous trade show's business: the art world's impact on Mother Earth. From thousands of deep-pocketed collectors... by The Art Angle

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How the Art World Fell Under the Spell of the Occult: You don't hear the words "witch hunt" much nowadays, unless by a certain US President. But the term is increasingly relevant—in a much more literal sense—to any tour through the art-historical canon, where witchcraft, paganism, and the occult... by The Art Angle

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