On Tuesday, May 14 a large portal that livestreams between Dublin’s city center and New York’s Flatiron district was shut down due to lewd behavior. The art installation returned again on Sunday, reported the New York Times. Visitors on both sides are to blame for the video’s removal. Videos on social media captured an OnlyFans…
Welcome to Wet Paint in the Wild, the freewheeling—and free!—spinoff of Artnet News Pro’s beloved Wet Paint gossip column, where we give art-world insiders a disposable camera to chronicle their lives on the circuit. To read the latest Wet Paint column, click here (members only). Last week, writer Whitney Mallet released the Whitney Review of…
A group of fine arts students at Parsons School of Design has withdrawn artwork from their BFA thesis exhibition amid an ongoing strike to pressure the New School to divest from companies connected to Israeli military interests. In lieu of the official exhibition, the students are staging an alternative show titled Seeds of Solidarity opening…
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. I’m the theater reporter at The New York Times, which means I see a lot of plays and musicals — about 100 a year. But I don’t often go to opening nights. Those evenings are…
As the May auctions drew to a close this week, Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, the person behind the popular Instagram account Jerry Gogosian, issued an apology for having mispronounced and made fun of a Sotheby’s auctioneer’s name, a move that some at the house decried as inappropriate. Helphenstein, who regularly critiques the art market, received criticism…