Know Your Rights Can I Be Sued for Making an NFT of a Painting in My Collection? + Other Artists’-Rights Questions, Answered Plus, does the Nirvana baby really have a shot in his lawsuit against the band? And can an artist remake a film shot for shot? By Katarina Feder, Sep 28, 2021
Curiosities Is Jeff Koons as Passionate About Uniqlo as He Sounds? Why Is This Unicorn Named After Picasso? + Other Questions I Have About the Week’s Art News More importantly: What was Michael Crichton doing on a road trip with Jasper Johns? By Ben Davis, Sep 27, 2021
Crime A Serial Art Thief Has Been Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison for Stealing a Van Gogh and Frans Hals Worth a Combined $20 Million Neither painting has been recovered, a factor that played into judges' decision to give the maximum sentence. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 27, 2021
Crime Robert ‘Bobby’ Gentile, Long Fingered by the FBI as a Suspect in the 1990 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist, Dies at 85 "His passing might make people less inhibited about talking," says the museum's chief investigator. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 23, 2021
Op-Ed Cuba Is Plowing Ahead With the Havana Biennial—But Don’t Expect the Government to Allow Artists Who Participated in the Recent Protests Artists may want to think twice before participating in this winter's event. By Coco Fusco, Sep 20, 2021
Curiosities How Did Immersive Van Gogh Top Taylor Swift? Does Anyone Ever #AskaCurator? + Other Questions I Have About the Week’s Art News Most importantly: Has Maurizio Cattelan's 'America' toilet been melted down for gold bars? By Ben Davis, Sep 20, 2021
Op-Ed Damien Hirst’s NFT Project Is a Lot Like Mine. But the Differences Speak Volumes About Our Divergent Visions for Crypto-Art Bitchcoin, the first 'artist-backed currency,' is an experiment in vulnerability and democratic patronage. By Sarah Meyohas, Sep 15, 2021
Curiosities Is a Bored Ape Tattoo the Ultimate Flex? Since When Is Uranium in a Museum Not OK? + More Questions I Have About the Week’s Art News Why is VR Machu Picchu so dang fun? Who will win the race to be the Bob Ross of digital art? By Ben Davis, Sep 13, 2021
Politics German Cultural Institutions Damaged by the Summer’s Historic Flooding Will Get a Cut of a $35 Million Aid Package The western region of Germany experienced devastating rain and flooding this summer. By Kate Brown, Sep 13, 2021
Art Criticism Pace Gave Its New Digital Director Christiana Ine-Kimba Boyle the Keys to Its Brick and Mortar Gallery. The Results Are Refreshing “Convergent Evolutions" is elegantly radical in how it opens up new conversations around its artists. By Folasade Ologundudu, Sep 9, 2021
Politics Steve Bannon’s School for Far-Right ‘Gladiators’ Has Officially Been Evicted From Its Home in an 800-Year-Old Italian Monastery Benjamin Harnwell, Bannon’s business partner, plans to appeal the move. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 9, 2021
Politics In Pictures: The Last Days of Virginia’s Embattled Monument to Robert E. Lee, From Its Role as a Site of Protest to Its Dramatic Removal The statue had been standing since 1890. By Caroline Goldstein, Sep 8, 2021
Curiosities Did Budweiser’s Tom Sachs Stunt Backfire? Is Damien Hirst’s Drake Cover Actually Good? + Other Questions I Have About Last Week’s Art News Can we be saved from AR art dystopia? What to make of Rachel Dolezal's conceptual abstract art? By Ben Davis, Sep 7, 2021
Op-Ed As They Hasten to Cozy Up to China, M+ Museum and Credit Suisse Have Let Freedom of Speech Fall By the Wayside Artist Ai Weiwei responds to museum censorship and Swiss outrage over his dissident ideas. By Ai Weiwei, Sep 6, 2021
Politics In a Pitched Battle Over Equitable Arts Funding, Washington, D.C.’s Culture Sector Is Tearing Itself Apart The city’s legacy institutions claim that their grants will be cut by 60 percent. Defenders say it will advance racial equity in the arts. By Zachary Small, Sep 2, 2021
