Philadelphia to Vote on Preserving Keith Haring Mural; Plus Other Art World News

The Philadelphia Historical Commission will vote on Wednesday on whether to add Keith Haring's 1987 mural "We the Youth" to its Register of Historic Places. The mural is the only one of Haring's collaborative works still at its original site. Meanwhile, sculptor Sergio Furnari invested $100,000 of his own money to create a bronze statue of far-right provocateur Charlie Kirk, hoping to display it in Times Square, but faced public backlash and a failed crowdfunding attempt. Apollo senior editor Sophie Barling discusses art historical depictions of Penelope, including Dora Wheeler's 1886 textile "Penelope Unraveling Her Work at Night" from the Met collection, in light of Christopher Nolan's film "The Odyssey." Artist Ajay Kurian's alt-art school project New Crits offers advice for emerging artists, with dealer Lucy Liu of Rachel Uffner Gallery revealing a pricing formula: height plus width times a market-based factor. The online artist Chariot Rider has created an art museum as a mod of the 1993 video game Doom, featuring 86 artists whose works comment on themes of hell, surreal space, and violence.