Art World The European Union Has Boosted Its Culture Bailout to €2.8 Billion After Pushback From Industry Leaders Officials negotiated an additional €600 million for culture as part of a wider bailout that will support all 27 EU member states. By Kate Brown, Nov 12, 2020
Galleries Dealers Say They Want to Diversify Their Rosters. A Look at Their Newly Signed Artists Shows Progress—Up to a Point Dealers are working to correct for long-held biases in the gallery system, but progress is not as rapid as they might think. By Kate Brown, Nov 10, 2020
People What I Buy and Why: Manufacturing Tycoon Heiner Wemhöner on the Emotional Value of Collecting and Why He’s Unafraid of Impractical Art Wemhöner's 1,300-work collection has more recently pivoted to Chinese contemporary art. By Kate Brown, Nov 9, 2020
Politics Meet the Artist Behind the Lighting Bolt Design That Has Become the Symbol of Women’s Rights in an Increasingly Oppressive Poland The lightning bolt represents women's power and serves as a warning to the Polish government. By Kate Brown, Nov 5, 2020
Art World German Museum Directors Are Pushing Back Against the Country’s ‘Incomprehensible’ Second Shutdown Commercial galleries, however, are allowed to remain open. By Kate Brown, Nov 2, 2020
People Billionaire Congolese Art Collector Sindika Dokolo, Who Championed the Restitution of African Art, Has Died at Age 48 The collector's legacy has been overshadowed by serious corruption charges in Angola. By Kate Brown, Oct 30, 2020
Art World Struggling French and German Museums Are Plunged Into a Second Lockdown as Coronavirus Cases Surge Across Europe Protests have already erupted over the new lockdown measures. By Kate Brown, Oct 29, 2020
People After a Cancer Diagnosis, Tracey Emin Is Slowing Down—But Says Her Best Work Is Still to Come The artist is opening a major show of new work at Xavier Hufkens in Brussels on October 30. By Kate Brown, Oct 28, 2020
Law & Politics Restitution Activist Mwazulu Diyabanza Was Arrested After He Tried to Remove an Indonesian Sculpture From the Louvre [UPDATED] The Congolese activist says he is “afraid” after taking his fight to France's most beloved museum. By Kate Brown, Oct 26, 2020
Politics Artists Pulled a ‘Borat’ on the Art World by Pretending to Steal a Joseph Beuys From Germany and Giving It Tanzania as a Comment on Colonial Plunder [UPDATED] The brazen group of German artists have even created a video documenting their actions. By Kate Brown, Oct 23, 2020
Politics German Museums Are Embarking on Long-Overdue Research Into Chinese Colonial-Era Objects as Part of a €1.1 Million Grant The German Lost Art Foundation has announced its third round of research funding. By Kate Brown, Oct 22, 2020
Art World An Art Foundation Has Pledged €100,000 in Aid to a Group of German Museums Attacked by Vandals. But Security Questions Still Linger The perpetrators of the attack remain at large. By Kate Brown, Oct 22, 2020
Art World Vandals Attacked 70 Artworks in Berlin Museums in Broad Daylight—and Commentators Are Linking the Incident to Far-Right Conspiracy Theorists An oily liquid was poured on many works in what has been called the worst attack on art and antiquities in post-war Germany. By Kate Brown, Oct 21, 2020
Art World As They Hang on to Survive, Hundreds of UK Arts Institutions Will Get Another $98 Million From the British Government News of the grants comes a week after the Arts Council England announced it would give away £257 million to more than 1,300 additional organizations. By Kate Brown, Oct 20, 2020
Reviews ‘How Does Information and the Body Travel Now, When People Cannot?’: Frieze Live’s Experimental New Format Probes New Possibilities for Performance Art The fair's performance platform boldly experimented with physical performances for digital audiences. By Kate Brown, Oct 12, 2020