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
Art World Some People Think Cattelan’s Banana Is Genius. This Law Professor Thinks It’s Illegal “I was so drunk when I wrote this paper,” admitted Brian Frye, whose legal arguments were quickly squashed by peers. By Brian Boucher, Dec 13, 2019
Law & Politics Why Is This Artist Trying to Anger Disney’s Feared Lawyers? It’s All Part of a Delightfully Devious Scheme to Stop Internet Scammers In order to bust T-shirt makers that copy artists’ designs, one artist baited them into deep legal waters. By Brian Boucher, Dec 12, 2019
Art World Facing Pushback From the Left and Right, the Baltimore Museum’s Director Defends His Decision to Buy Only Women’s Art in 2020 Christopher Bedford says that the museum’s commitment to women draws on a long history of the institution’s female leadership. By Brian Boucher, Dec 12, 2019
Art World It’s Not All in Your Head—the Art World Really Is Unfair. Here Are 9 Reasons Why The wealthy and powerful run the show. Colonialism casts a long shadow. The art market is supremely opaque. Shall we go on? By Brian Boucher, Dec 12, 2019
Art World Colorblind Museum Visitors Can Now Use High-Tech Glasses to Experience Art as They Never Have Before The eyewear, made by EnChroma, is steadily finding a home at institutions, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. By Brian Boucher, Dec 12, 2019
Law & Politics A Belgian Collector Is at War With the City of Gary, Indiana, Over a Picasso Model He Found in Their School Gym The tale begins with a sculpture created for the city of Chicago, and ends with some angry folks in both Brussels, Belgium and Gary, Indiana. By Brian Boucher, Dec 11, 2019
Art World In a Surprise Move, the Bronx Museum’s Director Deborah Cullen-Morales Leaves Her Post After 18 Months The museum is now searching for its second director in as many years. By Brian Boucher, Dec 10, 2019
Art World Teen Who Threw Six-Year-Old Boy Off Tate Rooftop Admits to Attempted Murder Jonty Bravery has admitted to an attempt on the boy’s life, saying that he hoped his crime would get him on the news. By Brian Boucher, Dec 6, 2019
Art World Brazil’s New Right-Wing Culture Czar Is a Known Peddler of Extremist Conspiracy Theories Dante Mantovani has some bewildering thoughts about rock music, sex, abortion, Satanism, and the C.I.A.’s role in Woodstock. By Brian Boucher, Dec 6, 2019
Art World Artist Michael Rakowitz Calls for MoMA PS1 to Literally Pause His Video in Protest of a Board Member’s Ties to Arms and Prisons After pulling out of the Whitney Biennial in protest of Warren Kanders, Rakowitz is now lashing out at a MoMA board member's dubious investments. By Brian Boucher, Dec 2, 2019