Art World ‘This Is an Unprecedented Disaster’: Art Schools Are Scrambling to Develop Contingency Plans for Students as Education Moves Online Administrators are being forced to adapt to a rapidly changing situation. By Brian Boucher, Mar 18, 2020
Politics ‘It Confirms the Dread I Felt on Election Day’: Artists From Countries Targeted by Trump’s Latest Immigration Ban Speak Out Nigeria, Myanmar, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Sudan, and Tanzania were all added to the banned list. By Brian Boucher, Feb 18, 2020
People ‘It’s My Salvation’: At 80 Years Old, Ron Nagle Can’t Stop Making His Meticulously Weird, Ridiculously Beautiful Sculptures Step inside his wonderland of shape, color, and whimsy. By Brian Boucher, Feb 6, 2020
Art World A Spanish Artist Thought His Arkansas City Needed Some Color, So He Transformed a Decrepit House Into a ‘Rainbow Embassy’ Fort Smith is home to a surprising amount of public art, which aims to revive the city’s derelict downtown. By Brian Boucher, Dec 20, 2019
Art World The House Just Gave the National Endowment for the Arts Its Largest Funding Bump in a Decade, Despite Trump’s Threats to Squash It With $162 million approved, it’s the greatest amount allotted to the NEA in six years. By Brian Boucher, Dec 20, 2019
Art World An Italian Court Says Steve Bannon’s Far-Right Group Can Fight Its Eviction From a Medieval Monastery Bannon’s right-hand man compares the Ministry of Culture’s arguments to Maurizio Cattelan's banana. By Brian Boucher, Dec 19, 2019
Art World ‘I’m Just Doing My Own Thing’: An Adorable Q&A With Xeo Chu, the 11-Year-Old Art Prodigy Whose Paintings Sell for $150,000 “I don’t really tell my friends," Xeo Chu says, "because I thought it would be weird to come up to them and tell them I’m an artist." By Brian Boucher, Dec 19, 2019
Art World Former Andy Warhol Museum Director Eric Shiner Is Leaving White Cube to Take Over Pioneer Works in Brooklyn He sees the move as a way to help “effect the positive changes that society so desperately needs right now.” By Brian Boucher, Dec 19, 2019
Art World The Smithsonian Just Opened a Manila Envelope and Discovered Four Yayoi Kusama Paintings It Had No Idea Existed Christmas came early this year when the works showed up in the museum's archive. By Brian Boucher, Dec 18, 2019
Art World Censorship Was Just One of the Aichi Triennale’s Problems. Now, a Candid Government Report Reflects on What Went Wrong There were issues with the show’s powerful artistic director, say the authors. But they found no fault with how a controversial sculpture was handled. By Brian Boucher, Dec 18, 2019
Art World The Smithsonian’s Newest Executive Probably Can’t Talk About Her Previous Job Experience (Because She Led the CIA) Meroe Park won medals at the spy agency. She’ll now ensure smooth operations at 19 museums, plus the National Zoo. By Brian Boucher, Dec 17, 2019
Art World Tate and Dozens of British Museums Are Calling on Boris Johnson to Fulfill His Promises to Increase Arts Funding After a Conservative landslide, museums are anxious over a ‘dire lack of resources.’ By Brian Boucher, Dec 17, 2019
Art World What Did They Eat at the Last Meal in Pompeii? A New Exhibition Gives Us a Glimpse of Their Strange Menu Even scraps of food from flatware and traces of waste in latrines offer insights. By Brian Boucher, Dec 17, 2019
Art World Art Pulled From MoMA PS1 in Protest of Board Members’ Business Ties Goes on View at an Activist Pop-Up in the Bronx “People’s lives are at stake,” said one of the event’s organizers. “This is not just about things that go on the wall.” By Brian Boucher, Dec 16, 2019
Art World A Tennessee Republican Wants to Remove a Statue of a Former KKK Grand Wizard and Replace It With One of Dolly Parton “If we want to preserve history, then let’s tell it the right way,” says Jeremy Faison. By Brian Boucher, Dec 16, 2019
