Science & Tech A.I. Is Exploding the Illustration World. Here’s How Artists Are Racing to Catch Up New tools and new kinds of advocacy are popping up as A.I. art generators upend online creativity. By Zachary Small, Oct 24, 2022
Museums 13 U.S. Museum Shows to See This Fall, From Tragic Genius Matthew Wong’s First Retrospective to a Landmark Joan Didion Exhibition These shows are all taking place outside of New York. By Zachary Small, Oct 5, 2022
People Jameson Green Won’t Apologize for His Confrontational Paintings. Collectors Love Him for It Prices for his paintings have quadrupled over the past two years as buyers search for art that will challenge them. By Zachary Small, Oct 3, 2022
Law Homage or Copy? Deborah Roberts Is Suing a Fellow Artist for Allegedly Stealing Her Photocollage Style The legal clash revisits old disputes about whether artists with similar styles should be allowed to compete in the same market. By Zachary Small, Sep 28, 2022
Art Fairs Inside the Affordable Art Fair, Where Artists Pose as Dealers and Paintings Fly Off the Walls Marking its 20th anniversary, the expo provides a window into the little-discussed and low-cost backbone of the art market. By Zachary Small, Sep 27, 2022
Art World Performers Were Among the Artists Hit Hardest by the Pandemic. Three Years in, Recovery Is Moving at a Snail’s Pace Opportunities that dried up in early 2020 have yet to come back. By Zachary Small, Aug 15, 2022
Museums Once-Promising Attendance Figures at U.S. Museums Have Plateaued, Revealing the Pandemic’s Enduring Grip on the Cultural Economy Regional museums relying on local residents seem to have fared better than their larger counterparts. By Zachary Small, Jul 7, 2022
People When He Turned 50, Jason Boyd Kinsella Left an Advertising Career to Pursue Art. Two Years Later, His Paintings Are Selling for Almost $500,000 The artist cultivated the curiosity of gallerists on Instagram before turning his practice into a multinational business. By Zachary Small, Jun 23, 2022
Politics How Artists Are Memorializing Victims of Mass Shootings, Again and Again and Again and Again In a grim indicator, local governments have created official processes for building monuments, sensing that more will come. By Zachary Small, Jun 3, 2022
Art World Designer and Art Collector Lisa Perry Is Reviving a Pedigreed Modernist House as a Gallery in the Hamptons Onna House will showcase the work of women artists and designers. By Zachary Small, Apr 7, 2022
Museums How Newly Recruited Native Curators Are Changing the Narrative of American Art at Museums Across the Country Very few institutions have Indigenous curators on staff leading the rehanging efforts. By Zachary Small, Jan 12, 2022
Science & Tech Forget Making Art in the Studio. Artists Are Now Developing Their Latest Works in the Metaverse Popular online platforms have become sites for creative invention and identity building. By Zachary Small, Jan 4, 2022
Artnet News Pro Bootstraps and Billionaires: How Upstart Dealers Finance New Galleries in a Notoriously Turbulent Industry Most dealers rely on an odd mix of ingenuity and investors. By Zachary Small, Dec 13, 2021
Museums There Are Almost Two Dozen Director Roles Vacant in U.S. Museums Right Now. Why Does Nobody Want Them? "People really don’t want to be directors right now." By Zachary Small, Nov 22, 2021
Politics After Six Months of Acrimony, Washington, D.C.’s Culture Commission Gets a Progressive Shakeup With Big Implications The standoff had become a referendum on how the city's government serves its majority-Black population. By Zachary Small, Nov 3, 2021
