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
Op-Ed As an Art Advisor, I’ve Watched ‘Meme Art’ Destroy All Logic in the Art Market. Here’s What We Can Do About It The traditional way of determining value in the art market has gone out the window. And that could be catastrophic for the entire system. By Lisa Schiff, Jun 15, 2022
Op-Ed Decolonizing Museums Doesn’t Help Plantation Workers Like Us in the Congo. So We’re Selling NFTs to Buy Back Our Land "If you want to decolonize, you need to share your tools with the colonized," said the Congolese Plantation Workers Art League. By Cedart Tamasala & Mathieu Kasiama, Jun 14, 2022
Art Criticism Oil-Rich Norway’s New National Museum, Home to Munch’s ‘The Scream,’ Is Like a $650 Million Vault. But What Is It Really Protecting? One could have come up with a different answer to the question of what a major institution can be today. By Kristian Vistrup Madsen, Jun 14, 2022
Opinion Warning Labels at Museums Make Art More Accessible to All—But They Should Stop Short of Telling Us How to Think How taking my child to a provocative museum exhibition made me reconsider the value of warning labels. By Hettie Judah, Jun 6, 2022
Know Your Rights Is a Studio Assistant Entitled to Get Some Kind of Credit for Their Boss’s Art? + Other Artists’ Rights Questions, Answered Plus, can I quote other books in my book without getting into trouble? And when are advertisements public domain? By Katarina Feder, May 30, 2022
Art Criticism The Dakar Biennale Returns, Energized by Conversations About African Epistemologies and Colonial Legacies Takeaways from the opening weekend of Dak’Art, historically an important platform for thinking about Négritude. By Tobi Onabolu, May 29, 2022
Art Criticism The MFA Boston Embraced Hard Conversations in Its Philip Guston Show. Why Doesn’t It Examine Its Collection Just as Critically? The exhibition's curators present a dramatic narrative of Guston’s studio as a site of privileged resistance against social injustice. By Leah Triplett Harrington, May 25, 2022
Op-Ed My Art and Tech Company Has a Four-Day Work Week. It’s Made Us More Creative, More Productive, and Much, Much Happier Kickstarter's Head of Arts explains how to move your arts organization to a more flexible and sustainable weekly schedule. By Patton Hindle, May 24, 2022
Art Criticism Critic’s Spotlight: How Felipe Baeza’s Symbolically Charged Dreamscapes Give Body to Contemporary Struggles at the Venice Biennale Baeza's creates a distinctive language of fantasy that encodes queer desire and the immigrant experience. By Barbara Calderón, May 15, 2022
Art Criticism New Perspectives: 6 Artists at the 2022 Venice Biennale Who Are Shifting the Way We Visualize the African Diaspora From Tourmaline to Simone Leigh, artists reflect on the Black imagination as a resource to build new worlds and right wrongs. By Emmanuel Balogun, May 12, 2022
