Art Criticism The Tudor Dynasty Seethed With Insecurity and Intrigue. A New Met Show Suggests That’s What Made Its Art So Lasting “The Tudors" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art shows a dazzling array of visual strategies for rule. By Eleanor Heartney, Oct 18, 2022
Know Your Rights What Happens If My A.I. Art Prompt Spontaneously Produces Shrek? + More Artists’-Rights Questions, Answered Plus, why did ‘The People’s Joker’ get shut down if parody is protected? And can famous lines from books be used in an advertising campaign? By Katarina Feder, Oct 10, 2022
Op-Ed Why Does the United States Government Want to Talk to the Supreme Court About Andy Warhol? The Solicitor General's brief in a landmark Supreme Court case seems to support a photographer whose work Warhol appropriated. But it's more complicated than it seems. By Amy J. Goldrich, Oct 6, 2022
Art Criticism The Carnegie International Tackles U.S. Hegemony. But It Doesn’t Do Much to Stand Out on the Global Biennial Circuit The oldest exhibition dedicated to global contemporary art in North America could have packed a bigger punch by looking closer to home. By Kriston Capps, Sep 29, 2022
Op-Ed Why the World Needs ‘Dataism,’ the New Art Movement That Helps Us Understand How Our World Is Shaped by Big Data The head of the scientist-and-artist collective BarabásiLab reflects on the transformative power of data in art. By Albert-László Barabási, Sep 23, 2022
Art Criticism Deana Lawson’s Photos Are Stunningly Popular. They’re Also Dangerously Misunderstood Lawson's elaborate fantasies raise wider questions about the stories that get told about life in a splintering economic order. By Danielle Jackson, Sep 19, 2022
Op-Ed Three Hongkongers on Making Documentary Film Under the Gaze of the State This is the first in a series of essays commissioned by PROTODISPATCH. By Tiffany Sia & Emilie Sin Yi Choi & Chan Tze-woon, Sep 14, 2022
Know Your Rights Can an A.I. That Makes Its Own Unique Works Be Granted Copyright? + More Artists-Rights’ Questions, Answered Plus, why aren’t the creators of the Unofficial Bridgerton Musical protected by parody laws? And can I create a silkscreen of YouTube’s LoFi Girl? By Katarina Feder, Sep 4, 2022
Opinion Culture Seems Stagnant Because Everyone Is Exhausted, Not ‘Because of the Internet’ What’s to blame for the feeling that we live in a time of “cultural stasis”? By Ben Davis, Sep 4, 2022
Know Your Rights Can an Artist Working as a Studio Assistant Take Credit for the Final Artwork? + More Artists-Rights’ Questions, Answered Plus how does Drake get away with copying famous artists? And how did the Ohio State University trademark "the"? By Katarina Feder, Aug 3, 2022
Art Criticism Manifesta 14 Hits the Mark With a Show that Probes Kosovo’s Turbulent Past and Its Asymmetrical Power Relations With the E.U. But Prishtina's historical and monumental venues frequently overshadow the art on view. By Hettie Judah, Jul 26, 2022
Op-Ed America Must Ensure That Russia Does Not Evade Sanctions. Here’s How the Art Market Can Help Legal and regulatory loopholes threaten not only our global security and economic integrity, but legitimate collectors, dealers, and auction houses, too. By Deborah Lehr, Jul 18, 2022
Op-Ed Museums Need to Be Braver. Here’s How College and University Art Galleries Can Offer the Sector at Large a Roadmap for Reinvention Here are five ways campus museums model a more courageous future. By Christina Olsen, Jul 17, 2022
Know Your Rights Know Your Rights: Could I Get Sued for Publishing the Sneaky Photos I Took of James Turrell’s Roden Crater? + More Artists-Rights’ Questions, Answered Plus how does Stranger Things get away with copying Stephen King? And why does a Winnie the Pooh slasher flick even exist? By Katarina Feder, Jun 23, 2022
Op-Ed While the U.S. Celebrates the End of Slavery on Juneteenth, Incarcerated Artists Depict the Harsh Reality That Forced Labor Persists in Prison The Thirteenth Amendment includes an exception that allows for slavery as punishment for a crime. Artists and organizations are working to end that. By Nicole Fleetwood, Jun 19, 2022
