Art and Law A Law Firm Has Cleared the Director of the Detroit Institute of Arts of Ethics Violations—But Critics Are Still Crying Foul A whistleblower agency called the findings the result of an "unserious investigation." By Rachel Corbett & Zachary Small, Oct 15, 2020
Art and Law After Trustees Resign and Students Voice ‘Shame,’ the New York Academy of Art Issues a ‘Profound Apology’ to Epstein Accuser Maria Farmer After Naomi Watts and three other female trustees resigned, the academy's board is promising change. By Rachel Corbett, Aug 10, 2020
Art and Law Whistleblowers at the Detroit Institute of Arts Expand Their Ethics Complaint Beyond the Museum’s Director to Include the Board Chair, Too The expanded complaint was filed with the institute's board and the Association of Art Museum Directors. By Rachel Corbett, Jul 24, 2020
Art World The Job Market for Young Academics Was Already Bleak—Then the Pandemic Hit. Here’s How Art-History Grad Students Are Coping With the Fallout "All of this is profoundly anxiety-producing," says one PhD candidate. By Rachel Corbett & Eileen Kinsella, Jul 23, 2020
Art World ‘There’s No One on Staff Who Can Lead’: Former Detroit Institute of Arts Employees Accuse Its Director of Mismanagement and Ethics Violations Current and former staff at the Detroit Institute of Arts are lodging complaints about director Salvador Salort-Pons. By Rachel Corbett, Jul 17, 2020
Art and Law The New York Academy of Art Commissioned a Report That Purports to Discredit Claims That the School Enabled Jeffrey Epstein’s Abuses Despite Maria Farmer's allegations, the academy's board of trustees has asked its embattled chair, Eileen Guggenheim, to remain in her position. By Rachel Corbett, Jun 30, 2020
People How Years of Seclusion on a Mountaintop Trained Artist Terence Koh to Thrive in a World of Virtual Exhibitions and Lockdown Living What the former partyboy can teach us about thriving in isolation. By Rachel Corbett, Jun 15, 2020
Art World Artists Are More Anxious Than People in Other Professions—But They Are Also Better at Coping With Challenges, a New Study Finds Researchers at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence found that creativity is higher among people with certain psychological traits. By Rachel Corbett, May 4, 2020
People ‘I’m Frightened, Dismayed, Disgusted’: Jenny Holzer on How Artists Can Use Outrage to Expose the Hypocrisies of Our Time The artist is debuting a new project to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. By Rachel Corbett, Apr 22, 2020
Art World Artists Are Rallying to Donate Their Masks and Other Protective Gear to Hospitals Facing Shortages Around the US The Mask Crusaders began as a listserv suggestion from artist Camille Henrot. By Rachel Corbett, Mar 23, 2020
Art World As an Older Generation of Major Museum Philanthropists Recedes From View, Will Younger Patrons Step in to Fill Their Enormous Shoes? Younger philanthropists have very different agendas than their predecessors did. By Rachel Corbett, Mar 9, 2020
Politics ‘It Was a Question of ‘How Far Will They Go?”: Former Art Students Remember How Jeffrey Epstein Tested Their Boundaries Graduates from the New York Academy of Art detail a day on Epstein's Zorro Ranch, where he promised to give one of them a lucrative commission. By Rachel Corbett, Jan 27, 2020
Art and Law Appeals Court Greenlights Ex-Artforum Employee Amanda Schmitt’s Lawsuit Against the Magazine—But Lets Knight Landesman Off the Hook The court said Schmitt could proceed with two of her four claims against the magazine. By Rachel Corbett, Dec 27, 2019
On View What Does Making Art Do for Prisoners? As the Curator of a Show by Incarcerated Artists Explains, It Can Change Everything Drawing Center executive director Laura Hoptman explains why she wanted to make this show her first at the New York museum. By Rachel Corbett, Nov 14, 2019
On View Hank Willis Thomas’s New Portland Art Museum Show Exposes the Manipulative Power of Advertising in the City Where Nike Was Born The artist hopes that Nike adverting executives will make time to visit the exhibition. By Rachel Corbett, Oct 28, 2019
