Art World After a Year of Reckoning, US Museums Promised to Implement Diversity Policies. Workers Are Still Waiting to See What That Means Few museums are willing to be fully transparent about how much money they will devote to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. By Zachary Small, Feb 9, 2021
Art World Whistleblowers Spoke Up to Hold Art Institutions Accountable. Here’s What Happened to Them Afterward Arts workers who publicized allegations of mismanagement discuss their motivations for speaking out against their employers—and what came next. By Zachary Small, Jan 26, 2021
Galleries Pace Gallery’s Longtime President Is Taking an Indefinite Leave of Absence Following Misconduct Allegations Douglas Baxter has pledged to cooperate with the gallery’s legal investigation. By Zachary Small, Nov 16, 2020
Galleries Pace Gallery Is Launching a Legal Investigation Into Two of Its Top Presidents Following Allegations of Workplace Abuse The announcement comes the day after Artnet News published an investigation into the gallery's work environment. By Zachary Small, Nov 13, 2020
Galleries Pace Gallery Positions Itself as the Art Business of the Future. But Employees Say an Abusive Work Environment Keeps It Mired in the Past Employees say that years of missteps have led to a workplace culture described as “toxic.” By Zachary Small, Nov 12, 2020
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 World Curator Bill Arning Delays His Gallery’s Inaugural Show as Sexual Misconduct Allegations Continue to Mount The former director of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston played an outsized role in shaping the city’s culture, but allegations of bad behavior have put his new gallery in jeopardy. By Zachary Small, Oct 2, 2020
People These Struggling Artists Found Success on TikTok. A Looming Ban on the App in the US Threatens What They’ve Built For creatives and institutions, the pending ban of TikTok and WeChat could mean significant losses of income and opportunity. By Zachary Small, Oct 1, 2020
Art World The Hard-Hit Arts Sector Is Facing a Brain Drain as Ambitious Workers Seek Greener Pastures Dissatisfied cultural workers are leaving the field in droves—and museums may pay the price. By Zachary Small, Sep 15, 2020
Art World Plexiglas. Temperature Guns. Sanitizing Stations. Here’s What It’s Like to Visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art Right Now—and Why Staff Still Have Concerns Visitors are excited about the reopening, but some workers still feel uneasy. By Zachary Small, Aug 27, 2020
Politics An Artist-Led Coalition in New York City Has Won a Big Legal Victory Against a Real Estate Developer’s Planned Skyscrapers A New York state judge has nullified the city’s approval for the project. By Zachary Small, Feb 26, 2020
Art and Law Trump’s Impeachment Lawyer Alan Dershowitz May Have Owned Looted Antiquities, an Art Crime Expert Says Experts say Dershowitz is emblematic of collectors in this fraught market, where a lack of documentation is common and troubling. By Zachary Small, Feb 7, 2020
Politics A Nashville Art School Will Purge All Non-Christian Faculty Now That It Has Been Taken Over by a Religious University "That’s just part of who we are,” says Belmont University's provost of the firings at the Watkins College of Art. By Zachary Small, Jan 31, 2020
People Christine Sun Kim, the Transgressive Deaf Artist, Will Sign the National Anthem Alongside Demi Lovato During the Super Bowl In an interview, Kim explains why she accepted the opportunity to perform during one of America’s most-watched events and what it means to the Deaf community. By Zachary Small, Jan 28, 2020
On View What Happens When an Art Museum Is Conceived to Capitalize on the Experience Economy? Fotografiska New York Is About to Find Out The Swedish for-profit institution is expanding fast. What does its success tell us about the state of museums today? By Zachary Small, Jan 22, 2020
