People ‘This Could Really Be Art for All’: Why Daniel Birnbaum Is Leaving His Job as a Museum Director for a Career in VR The esteemed director of the Moderna Museet is moving on to become the artistic director of the VR production company Acute Art. By Kate Brown, Jul 10, 2018
People Meet the Man Who Made a Living Selling North Korean Art to the West—Until UN Sanctions Got in the Way Pier Luigi Cecioni talks about the art world of Pyongyang, what the country's artists think about contemporary art, and why North Korean art matters. By Kate Brown, Jul 5, 2018
Art Fairs art berlin Is Ready for Takeoff—Here Are All the Galleries Heading to the Fair’s New Home in Tempelhof Airport Around 120 galleries will join for this year's edition, as they take over two hangars in the historic wartime airport. By Kate Brown, Jul 3, 2018
Exhibitions The 6 Must-See Performances—and a Special Fragrance—at the Estonian Chapter of the Baltic Triennial Rising stars use song and dance, create a unique fragrance, and incorporate creeping insects to stage a memorable opening weekend in the capital city of Tallinn. By Kate Brown, Jul 2, 2018
Art World Hidden for 30 Years, Keith Haring’s Largest Mural in Europe Has Now Returned to View in Amsterdam The 1986 work had been hidden at the Stedelijk Museum's former storage for decades, until a Dutch street artist pushed for its return. By Kate Brown, Jun 25, 2018
Art and Law People Across the Globe Want Their Cultural Heritage Back. Canada May Offer a Blueprint for How to Get There A proposed law would mobilize a national strategy to help Indigenous communities reclaim cultural heritage objects at home and abroad. By Kate Brown, Jun 25, 2018
Art World The City of Kassel Is Buying the Controversial Monument to Refugees That Was the Heart of documenta The clock is ticking on a deal to buy Olu Oguibe's prize-winning, pro-refugee work. By Kate Brown, Jun 20, 2018
Art World A Suspected Gang Shooting at a New Jersey Art Festival Has Left One Dead and 22 Injured Organizers were trying to close the festival before fighting turned fatal at the 24-hour arts and culture festival in Trenton, New Jersey. By Kate Brown, Jun 18, 2018
Art World A First Look Inside Deutsche Bank’s New Arts Center in Berlin The arts space in a former palace is due to open in September with artworks drawn from the company's huge collection of works on paper. By Kate Brown, Jun 14, 2018
Politics 3 Stedelijk Board Members Resign After a Study Clears Former Museum Director Beatrix Ruf of Wrongdoing The German curator expresses her gratitude to the investigation's researchers, while board members step down "to end the turmoil" in Amsterdam. By Kate Brown, Jun 13, 2018
Politics Embattled Former Stedelijk Director Beatrix Ruf Was Wrongly Accused, Says a New Report But she also could have been more forthcoming about her outside income. By Kate Brown, Jun 12, 2018
Politics The Big Move to Berlin’s Humboldt Forum Has Begun, as Pressure for Restitution of Colonial-Era Objects Grows The German Lost Art Foundation's expertise in researching Nazi-era loot will expand as demands for colonial-era restitution grows at home and abroad. By Kate Brown, Jun 11, 2018
Exhibitions ‘We’re Not Fixing the Mess’: The Curator of the 10th Berlin Biennale, Gabi Ngcobo, Refuses to Exorcize Europe’s Colonial Ghosts Called "We Don't Need Another Hero," the South African curator tells us how her team are following up Germany's year of mega exhibitions. By Kate Brown, Jun 7, 2018
On View The First Riga Biennial’s Theme Is ‘Change’—So It’s Paying Its Artists and Hiring an All-Woman Team of Curators At RIBOCA1's kick-off, curator Katerina Gregos talked about her sprawling exhibition's focus on change. So, what does change look like in this context? By Kate Brown, Jun 6, 2018
People ‘This Part of the World Is Now in the Spotlight’: Katerina Gregos on Curating the Inaugural Riga Biennial Under Putin’s Shadow The debut edition of the Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA) opens on June 2. By Kate Brown, May 31, 2018
