Op-Ed The Commercial Art World Rarely Offers Paid Internships. That’s Not Just Poor Ethics—It’s Also Bad Business An investment in people is an investment in long-term profitability. By Joe Dunning, Jan 4, 2021
Opinion The Gray Market: 10 Daring and Highly Specific Predictions for the Art Industry in 2021 (and Other Insights) Fresh off a chaotic 2020, our columnist boldly attempts to chart the ever-turning art world’s orbit in the new year. By Tim Schneider, Jan 3, 2021
Opinion A Look at the Subversive Art of Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun—and the One Gender-Bending Portrait That Has Kept Historians Guessing In her new book, scholar Tal Sterngast explores the collection of Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie. By Tal Sterngast, Dec 30, 2020
Opinion Bob Ross May Have Been the Most Popular Artist of 2020. Here’s Why It’s Not Just a ‘Happy Little Accident’ Here are five reasons for his persistent—and growing—popularity. By Ben Davis, Dec 29, 2020
Opinion The Gray Market: How My 7 Highly Specific Art-Industry Predictions for 2020 Worked Out (and Other Insights) Upholding an annual tradition, our columnist tests the sturdiness of his tea leaves at the end of a year like no other. By Tim Schneider, Dec 27, 2020
Opinion The Gray Market: Why a Colossal Hack of US Interests Should Wake Up the Art Industry to Cybersecurity Threats (and Other Insights) Our columnist sees the breach of SolarWinds as a red alert about the heightened danger of cybercrime in the work-from-home era. By Tim Schneider, Dec 20, 2020
Op-Ed How Did the Benin Bronzes Come to Europe? Here’s How Colonial Powers Raced to Loot Them Amid a Program of Imperial Destruction Author Dan Hicks takes a detailed look at what really happened before and after the UK's punitive raid on the Benin Palace in 1897. By Dan Hicks, Dec 15, 2020
Opinion The Gray Market: Why Bob Dylan’s $300 Million Windfall Debunks the Myth of the Sellout Artist (and Other Insights) Our columnist uses the sale of Dylan’s songwriting catalog to show artists have little to fear from aggressively monetizing their practice. By Tim Schneider, Dec 13, 2020
Opinion The Humboldt Forum in Berlin, Finally (Almost) Ready for the Public, Wears Germany’s History Like a Crown of Thorns We took a walk through the enormously controversial German cultural institution, which has been plagued by delays and protests. By Kate Brown, Dec 11, 2020
Op-Ed What International Audiences Must Understand About the Conflict Between Armenia and Azerbaijan—and the Cultural Heritage That’s at Stake Younger Armenian and Azerbaijani scholars can do a great deal if they dare to break from nationalist taboos. By Thomas de Waal, Dec 10, 2020
Opinion Can I Use Beyoncé’s Choreography in My Next Performance Artwork Without Getting Sued? + Other Artists’-Rights Questions, Answered What's the deal with streaming music on Twitch? Can I wear a dress made out of ballots to the inaugural ball? By Katarina Feder, Dec 8, 2020
Op-Ed Arts Funding Is Facing an Existential Crisis. To Survive, Cultural Organizations Must Change How They Frame Themselves to the Public The director of the Arts Funders Forum offers advice for an industry facing a new generation of donors increasingly disinterested in culture. By Melissa Cowley Wolf, Dec 7, 2020
Opinion The Gray Market: Why the Art Market Shouldn’t Worry That the Film Industry Is Undergoing a Home-Viewing Revolution (and Other Insights) Our columnist unspools the art-world implications of Warner Bros.’s choice to stream its 2021 films on HBO Max as soon as they hit theaters. By Tim Schneider, Dec 6, 2020
Opinion There Is an Alien Power Driving the Frenzy Over the Utah Monolith. It’s Just Not From Outer Space Land Art history offers some clues—though the Monolith is very much a creature of the present, not the past (or the future.) By Ben Davis, Dec 2, 2020
Op-Ed ‘Self-Taught’ Black Artists Are Often the Last to Benefit When Their Prices Go Up. But We Can Change That—Here’s How The president of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation and Community Partnership makes a case for resale royalties regardless of government action. By Maxwell Anderson, Nov 24, 2020
