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
Politics Brazil’s Culture Secretary Has Been Fired After Quoting Joseph Goebbels in a Chilling Speech That Sparked Immediate Outrage Roberto Alvim had pledged to create a "cultural war machine" against progressive ideas. By Zachary Small, Jan 17, 2020
Politics After a Spate of Antisemitic Incidents in New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo Has Pledged to Expand Manhattan’s Museum of Jewish Heritage The museum serves as a place of memory for Holocaust survivors. By Zachary Small, Jan 10, 2020
Art World Friends and Former Students Remember the Late John Baldessari as an Artist Who ‘Always Knew What He Was Doing’ David Salle, Lawrence Weiner, and Martha Rosler look back on their friend and colleague. By Zachary Small, Jan 7, 2020
Politics Is Controversy Inevitable in Public Art? After a Year Filled With Protest, New York’s Cultural Council City Reconsiders Its Approach At a hearing, legislators and arts professionals called for more transparency and staff to help the overextended system. By Zachary Small, Dec 17, 2019
