Members of MoMA’s biggest union have been working over 80 days without a contract, and we ask them to explain what’s going on.
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Amy Sherald won first prize in the 2016 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition for her painting of Baltimore baker Krystal Mack. This and more in our weekly Art Movements: a collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world.
This week in art news: courtroom sketches from the Knoedler forgery trial went on public display, artists came out in support of Apple’s decision not to give the FBI access to users’ encrypted data, and a painter in France found a drawing in a bottle that was thrown into New York Harbor two and a half years ago.
This week in art news: Ai Weiwei’s new refugee-themed artworks and actions drew sharp criticism, Spain ruled that an alleged accomplice in the Knoedler Gallery affair can be extradited to the US, and the Metropolitan Museum defended its widely ridiculed new logo.
This week in art news: Facebook censored Evelyne Axell’s 1964 Pop art painting “Ice Cream,” a badger uncovered a trove of Bronze Age artifacts near Stonehenge, and Ann Freedman and the Knoedler Gallery settled a lawsuit brought by collectors who bought a fake Mark Rothko painting from the gallery.
This week in art news: Utah moved closer to designating “Spiral Jetty” its official state artwork, the Queens Museum announced it will give legendary punk group the Ramones a retrospective, and a mouse died at the Museum of English Rural Life after crawling into a historic mousetrap.
This week in art news: Jeremy Deller and Fraser Muggeridge raised a smiley face flag over London, the Knoedler forgery trial began with testimony from art world heavy-hitters, and the dissident Russian performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky was sent to a psychiatric hospital.
This week in art news: the Metropolitan Museum revealed details of its modern and contemporary art wing expansion, hundreds of Art Students League members filed a lawsuit over the $31.8-million sale of the school’s air rights, and Josh Kline’s sculpture “Po-Po” graced the cover of Fatima Al Qadiri’s new album, Brute.
This week in art news: revisiting William Boyd and David Bowie’s art world hoax, Stephen Colbert interviews the Guerrilla Girls, and Larry Gagosian sues the royal family of Qatar over a Picasso sculpture.