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
Art & 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
Art World ‘These Artists Need Us Most’: Dutch Collector Han Nefkens Explains Why He Became a Patron of Fashion and Video Art Han Nefkens is putting his weight behind Dutch designers Viktor&Rolf, and funding work in the upcoming Manifesta. By Kate Brown, May 25, 2018
Art World Gerhard Richter Is Selling Over $1 Million of His Art to Help Build 100 Houses for the Homeless The German artist is donating 18 works to fund the initiative. By Kate Brown, May 24, 2018
Art World ‘That Is a Word That Causes Pain’: A Toronto Museum Takes ‘Indian’ Out of the Title of an Emily Carr Painting The Art Gallery of Ontario has retitled Carr's 1929 painting. By Kate Brown, May 23, 2018
Art World Louise Bourgeois’s Haunting Final Series of Artworks Is Getting Its Due for the First Time—See It Here "The Empty House" is the first exhibition dedicated to the artist's work in Berlin since her death in 2010. By Kate Brown, May 22, 2018
On View 50 Years of Marina Abramović: See Works From the Performance Artist’s Giant Retrospective in Germany The sprawling survey show offers an uncompromising look at the artist's 50-year career. By Kate Brown, May 17, 2018
Politics In an Effort to Correct Its Cultural ‘Blind Spot,’ Germany Releases a Code of Conduct for Colonial-Era Artifacts The sweeping 130-page guidelines outline methodologies for provenance research and possibilities for restitution. By Kate Brown, May 17, 2018
Art & Exhibitions Can a Mega-Exhibition Change the Way You Think? The Baltic Triennial Is Going to Try The 13th edition of the Baltic Triennial, which opens its first chapter today, is crossing borders for the first time ever. By Kate Brown, May 11, 2018
Law & Politics The Art World Has No Shortage of Legal Disputes. A New Court Wants to Help. The Court of Arbitration for Art, opening in June in The Hague, offers expert decisions at a fraction of the cost of the conventional system. By Kate Brown, May 9, 2018
On View A Formerly Buried Trove of 4,000-Year-Old Artifacts Is Leaving Turkmenistan for the First Time The show at the Neues Museum—a diplomatic and curatorial coup—was many years in the making. By Kate Brown, May 7, 2018
Art & Exhibitions Here Are 5 Women Artists Who Dominated Berlin Gallery Weekend, Despite Evidence of German Gender Bias Sculptor Senga Nengundi and pop painter Evelyne Axell were among those getting the spotlight. By Kate Brown, May 3, 2018