Politics U.S. Leaders Are Calling for the Release of Cuban Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, Who Has Been Detained for Months Without Trial Concern is growing over Alcántara, who launched a hunger strike in protest of his imprisonment. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 18, 2022
Politics A New Report Shows How Hard POC Arts Organizations in New York Must Fight for Funding Just to Stay Afloat The report, published by Hue Arts NYC, accompanies a new interactive map and directory of 400-plus POC cultural organizations in the city. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 16, 2022
Curiosities Bored Ape Yacht Club Fans Were Sure That Snoop Dogg or Eminem Would Give Them a Super Bowl Plug. Their Dreams Were Dashed Snoop Dogg did not turn into a mutant ape onstage at Super Bowl LVI. By Ben Davis, Feb 16, 2022
Curiosities Beeple Is Probably Right That NFTs Will Change Politics. So Far, That Change Is for the Worse "Digital merch" or new-model way for the rich to sell access? By Ben Davis, Feb 10, 2022
Politics A Venice Coalition Is Protesting Plans to Permanently House a Biennale Archive in the Arsenale The Forum Futuro Arsenale's alternative vision proposes a center for boat maintenance with space for local artists. By Caroline Goldstein, Feb 10, 2022
Crime The Alleged Cyber Thief Accused of Laundering $4.5 Billion in Bitcoin Is, Yes, Also an Artist and NFT Collector The self-proclaimed artist and rapper is said to have bought NFTs with the stolen cryptocurrency. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 9, 2022
Politics The Abrupt Removal of the U.N.’s 25-Foot Tapestry of Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ Caused an Uproar. Now, the Mystery Has Been Solved The tapestry was commissioned by Nelson Rockefeller in 1955 and has lived at the UN on loan since 1984. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 8, 2022
Art Criticism Why the Opening Ceremonies at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games Were an Artless, Uninspired Dud The tiny flame was an afterthought. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 4, 2022
Politics ‘We Are Pessimistic About the Future’: Shudders Run Through Ukraine’s Art Scene as Tensions with Russia Escalate Faced with uncertainty, Ukrainian artists and cultural producers are trying to find new ways to act together. By Dorian Batycka, Feb 4, 2022
Op-Ed Art Programming for Former U.S. Prisoners Is Practically Nonexistent. Here’s Why That Should Change The founders of Silver Art Projects argue that art is essential in helping reintegrate former prisoners into society. By Joshua Pulman & Cory Silverstein, Feb 3, 2022
Curiosities The Hilariously Random and Downright Goofy Story of the ‘Talisman of Napoleon,’ Whose Owners Hope to Sell It for $250 Million Pat Boone is on board. By Ben Davis, Feb 3, 2022
Crime Cybercriminals Hacked One of Italy’s Hottest Galleries—And Duped a German Collector Into Sending $33,000 to a Fake Account More than a dozen collectors and advisors were contacted by someone pretending to be the directors of T293 gallery. By Kate Brown, Feb 2, 2022
Crime Alec Baldwin Is Hosting a New True Crime Podcast Called ‘Art Fraud’ About the Knoedler Forgery Scandal The podcast delves into what might be the biggest scandal ever to rock the U.S. art scene. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 1, 2022
Politics U.S. President Biden Has Reversed a Trump-Era Rule Requiring Pro-American Art in Federal Buildings Trump’s previous policy required that federal art “illustrate the ideals upon which our nation was founded.” By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 1, 2022
Politics One of a Handful of Remaining Tiananmen Square Memorials in Hong Kong Has Been Covered Up as China Cracks Down on the City On Saturday, construction workers arrived without warning and obscured the memorial from view. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 31, 2022
