MTV and the Hirshhorn’s Artist Competition Take Up Profound Injustices – ARTnews.com

(Spoiler alert: this article contains information and plot points from the third episode of The Exhibit.) As we pass the half-way point of the competition, the seven artists are tasked with creating a work of art that addresses a profound injustice for the fourth episode of The Exhibit, a new six-episode docuseries created by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture…

Read More

What Makes the Property-Brokering, Painting-Hoovering Art King of Tribeca so Unusual? He’s a Genuinely Good Guy

Jonathan Travis is a budding mogul at the intersection of two notoriously cut-throat, shady industries: contemporary art and New York real estate. As an investigative journalist who has covered both fields extensively, I expected to encounter a certain type of man when I began hearing about his exploits—think tax machinations, rampant flipping, art bartering—and sharpened…

Read More