Politics Is PETA Today’s Most Feared Art Critic? How 4 Exhibitions Included Animal Art Without Getting Bitten In the wake of the uproar around a Guggenhein show, we asked institutions how they had dealt with sensitivities. By Brian Boucher, Sep 27, 2017
Art World Ai Weiwei Defends the Guggenheim’s China Show Against Animal Rights Protests The museum faces a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t scenario. By Brian Boucher, Sep 27, 2017
Art World Attention Artists: The Obama Foundation Wants You to Apply for Its New Fellowship Participants will help shape the fellowship in its first year. By Brian Boucher, Sep 26, 2017
Art Fairs NADA Will Return to Miami’s Ice Palace This Year After a String of Calamities A stalwart of the Miami fair scene since 2003, NADA returns to a familiar venue. By Brian Boucher, Sep 21, 2017
Art World An Experimental New Art School for Painters Opens in New York, With an All-Star Faculty Launching this winter, Shandanken Project's Paint School offers lectures by renowned figures in the field. By Brian Boucher, Sep 20, 2017
On View Not Just for Architects: Four Artists Show Why Art Has a Place at the Chicago Architecture Biennial From slightly perverse architectural photography to sculptures based on beehives, these artists' works are deeply engaged with buildings and those who make them. By Brian Boucher, Sep 19, 2017
Art Fairs ‘American Exceptionalism Is Over’: Christo Reminisces About Being an Undocumented Immigrant in the US The artist looks back on the time he wrapped Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art in 1969. By Brian Boucher, Sep 18, 2017
Art Fairs Here Are the 7 Best Artworks on Offer at EXPO Chicago 2017 Among the standouts are works by a painter from Botswana and a central figure in the Pictures Generation. By Brian Boucher, Sep 14, 2017
Art World School’s Out Forever: Bruce High Quality Foundation University Calls it Quits, Ending an Experiment in Free Art Education Director Seth Cameron says the school was to some degree a victim of its own success. By Brian Boucher, Sep 11, 2017
Law & Politics A Magazine Publisher Is Suing Virginia’s Prisons for Censoring a Rubens Painting of Adam and Eve The Department of Corrections won a lifetime award from an organization that calls out censorship. By Brian Boucher, Sep 8, 2017
People The Brooklyn Museum Hires Classicist Jennifer Y. Chi as Deputy Director and Chief Curator She will fill the role left vacant by Nancy Spector. By Brian Boucher, Sep 7, 2017
People DNA Tests Debunk a Psychic’s Claim to Be Dalí’s Daughter, and a Surreal Saga Comes to an End The artist's body will soon be returned to its resting place. By Brian Boucher, Sep 6, 2017
Art World ‘It’s Hard to Look Back’: Why MacArthur Genius Bryan Stevenson Is Building America’s First Slavery Museum The From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration Museum will feature both cutting-edge technology and artists from Sanford Biggers to Elizabeth Catlett. By Brian Boucher, Aug 31, 2017
Art World Frank Ocean Taps DIY Art Star Tom Sachs to Make a Surprise Video for His New Single, ‘Provider’ The song is rich with pop-culture references, but the video is quite minimal. By Brian Boucher, Aug 28, 2017
Art World Where’s Yayoi? An Exquisite New Children’s Book Turns Kusama Into a Whimsical Heroine for Kids The book is penned by MoMA curator Sarah Suzuki. By Brian Boucher, Aug 25, 2017