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
Art Criticism Here Is What the Riddle at the Heart of the 2022 Whitney Biennial Actually Means A philosophy unites the show's many enigmas—but it wants you work to uncover it. By Ben Davis, May 4, 2022
Art Criticism The 2022 Venice Biennale Is an Artistically Outstanding, Philosophically Troubling Hymn to Post-Humanism "Post-humanism" is the master key to the big show. But what does it mean? By Ben Davis, May 1, 2022
Op-Ed I Organized My First Art Show From Behind Bars. Here’s How Incarcerated Curators Can Help Us See the World Differently Rahsaan “New York” Thomas describes why the role of incarcerated curators matters. By Rahsaan Thomas, Apr 27, 2022
Know Your Rights Should the Copyright Lawsuit Against Dua Lipa Make Video Artists Nervous? + Other Artists’-Rights Questions, Answered Plus, what do artists need to know about the Andy Warhol lawsuit headed to the Supreme Court? And what's going on with copyright in Russia? By Katarina Feder, Apr 26, 2022
Opinion 3 Important Lessons Any Arts Organization Can Learn from Oolite Arts’s Expansion in Miami Dennis Scholl lays out the nonprofit's approach to creating sustainable support for the arts. By Dennis Scholl, Apr 12, 2022
