Famous Art Heists Gone Wrong

In an article as fascinating as it is funny, authors Abigail Cain and Isaac Kaplan highlight eight major art theft failures while referencing many more. The tales, even the most grandiose ones, all feature a comedy of errors or simple lack of oversight. From too-small getaway cars and flat tires to ambitious ransom notes and incompetent support staffs, there’s some glamour here but a lot …

Season Five at Mmuseumm

NYC's miniature, one-room space holds 15 new exhibitions including one of Trump paraphernalia

Blink and you’ll miss it—two doors thrust open in one of downtown New York’s now uncommon alleys. Inside, objects are neatly on display: from perfume bottles to fast food containers from Iran. Once a former shaftway for a freight elevator, the one-room Mmuseumm 1 (its sister space on the same block, Mmuseumm 2, uses the unused back area of a Broadway-facing store) prompts ideas about …

Meet the 22-Year-Old Who’s Building ‘The MoMA of China’

22-year-old Michael Xufu Huang is a University of Pennsylvania undergraduate currently pursuing degrees in art history and marketing. He’s also a co-founder of one of Beijing’s brightest new museums: M WOODS. During a recent trip to New York, Huang visited the offices of Artspace to discuss the pros and cons of being so young in the art industry and how he plans to establish M …