Opinion 5 Classic Hollywood Movies That Sculpted Our Image of Artists as Tragic, Irrepressible, Erotic Heroes Filmmakers were enamored with artists long before Leonardo DiCaprio was set to star as Leonardo da Vinci. By Ben Davis, Feb 19, 2019
Opinion How Did the Heart Become a Symbol of Love? The Clues Lie in This Medieval French Illustration The 13th-century French manuscript "Romance of the Pear" contains an early depiction of the heart as a symbol of love. By Ben Davis, Feb 13, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: How the Met’s Artificial Intelligence Initiative Masks the Technology’s Larger Threats (and Other Insights) Our columnist relates the Met's partnership with Microsoft and MIT to artificial intelligence's harrowing effects on the workforce. By Tim Schneider, Feb 10, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: Why Freeports Don’t Deserve Salvation From Stricter Regulations (and Other Insights) Our columnist refuses to cry for European freeports and ponders the upside of David Zwirner's new alliance with Simon & Schuster. By Tim Schneider, Feb 3, 2019
Opinion What Is Democracy? An Experimental New Documentary Looks at the History of an Idea—and Offers a Ray of Hope Astra Taylor's new film surveys contemporary political breakdown through the lens of philosophy. By Ben Davis, Jan 28, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: Why the Government Shutdown’s End Should Be Cold Comfort to American Arts Institutions (and Other Insights) Our columnist zooms out from the government shutdown to consider the impact of decades of structural decline in federal arts funding. By Tim Schneider, Jan 27, 2019
Opinion From the Salvador Dalí Desert to the Leonardo Weapons Company, Here Are 14 Surprising Things Named After Famous Artists We've ranked them from most to least appropriate. By Artnet News, Jan 23, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: Why the Asian Art Market May Not Live Up to the Western Hype After All (and Other Insights) After the cancelation of Art Stage Singapore, our columnist wonders if Western dealers have been expecting too much from Eastern expansion. By Tim Schneider, Jan 20, 2019
Opinion The World’s Most-Liked Instagram Post Is a Picture of an Egg—and It Hatches a New Age of Conceptual Art for the People It's the viral sensation of the moment. But it has an art-historical precedent. By Ben Davis, Jan 15, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: Why the New Museum’s Union Reckoning Reflects a Much Bigger Problem (and Other Insights) Our columnist zooms out from the New Museum staff's intent to unionize to the larger influence of Big Tech and big money on our world. By Tim Schneider, Jan 13, 2019
Opinion To Truly Take Ownership of Its Heritage, Africa Needs a New Museum to House Its Returning Cultural Artifacts The Nigerian architect Olajumoke Adenowo argues that building museums will be vital for the future of Africa where 60 percent of the population is under 25. By Olajumoke Adenowo, Jan 10, 2019
Opinion A Month After I Published a Book About How to Run an Art Gallery, I Closed Mine. Here’s Why The co-founder of the gallery yours, mine & ours on the current gallery crisis. By Patton Hindle, Jan 9, 2019
Opinion The Perplexingly Popular Conspiracy Theory That ‘Salvator Mundi’ Is Connected to #Russiagate, Explained Trump, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Christie's, a new shadowy world order... it all adds up! By Ben Davis, Jan 9, 2019
Opinion What Sister Wendy Beckett, the Late Nun and Popular Art Historian, Taught Me About Being a Curator She made me want to study art history. By Carmen Hermo, Jan 7, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: Why Your Art Collection Isn’t Actually Beating the Stock Market (and Other Insights) Our columnist retrieves what's often lost in art-as-investment talk and weighs in on resistance to the Savoy-Sarr restitution report. By Tim Schneider, Jan 6, 2019
