Op-Ed If You Want to Support the Arts in America, Invest in the South. Here’s Why A person living in the South sees $1 of arts philanthropy for every $4 someone in the Northeast gets. That's a problem. By Susie Surkamer & Joy Young, Nov 2, 2021
Curiosities Why Did Lindsay Lohan’s Art Spark Furries’ Fury? What Is the ‘Shadowman Experience’? + More Questions I Have About the Week’s Art News Plus, what is Ted Lasso's take on the rise of African art? By Ben Davis, Nov 1, 2021
Crime In a Shift, Notorious Art Dealer Inigo Philbrick Set to Plead Guilty to Criminal Charges in Federal Court This Week It remains to be seen what type of prison sentence is handed down. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 1, 2021
Crime Manhattan’s D.A. Returns 248 Antiquities to India That Were Caught Up in the Investigation of Disgraced Dealer Subhash Kapoor It is the largest group of historical objects to be returned to the country. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 29, 2021
Politics After Years of Debate, Two Universities Have Become the First U.K. Institutions to Restitute Benin Bronzes Cambridge and Aberdeen universities will return the treasured bronzes. By Vivienne Chow, Oct 29, 2021
Politics The U.K.’s Latest Budget Gives Arts Organizations an Impressive-Sounding $1.2 Billion—But It’s Actually Less Than Last Year Museum leaders are most excited about an extension of tax relief for arts organizations through 2024. By Amah-Rose Abrams, Oct 28, 2021
Know Your Rights Am I Entitled to a Payday If My Art Has Been Turned Into a Pretty Popular Gif? + Other Artists’-Rights Questions, Answered Plus, how can I make NFTs of work in my local museum without breaking the rules? And am I allowed to make a TV show about Jackson Pollock? By Katarina Feder, Oct 27, 2021
Curiosities What Does the Basketball World Want With Warhol’s Pee? Did Art Just Die at Giza’s Pyramids? + Other Questions I Have About the Week’s Art News Plus, is Buzzfeed's Buzzy the Robot art's next big thing? By Ben Davis, Oct 26, 2021
Politics How a Group of Midwestern Museum Docents Wound Up at the Center of a Right-Wing Media Firestorm The Art Institute of Chicago abruptly dismissed all of its docents. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 22, 2021
Politics Havana Biennial Boycott Gathers Support, With Hundreds Signing Open Letter Against Government Crackdown More than 400 culture workers have called on colleagues not to participate in the exhibition because of injustices committed by the Cuban regime By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 19, 2021
Curiosities Someone Paid $25 Mil for Banksy Leftovers? Is This the HAL 9000 of Museums? + Other Questions I Have About the Week’s Art News Plus, is October Mist the color to cure all your woes? By Ben Davis, Oct 19, 2021
Politics Cambridge University’s Jesus College Has Become One of the First U.K. Institutions to Actually Return a Benin Bronze to Nigeria Officials hope more institutions will follow suit. By Caroline Goldstein, Oct 15, 2021
Curiosities What’s With All the Hitler NFTs? Will Robots Put Street Artists Out of Work? + Other Questions I Have About The Week’s Art News Thoughts on some dumb NFTs, IP dilemmas in the art world and out, and a weird way to sell cashmere sweaters. By Ben Davis, Oct 13, 2021
Art Criticism Roxane Gay on How Artist Calida Rawles Shows Us a New, and More Humane, Way of Bearing Witness The writer explores the significance Rawles's painting "High Tide, Heavy Armor." By Roxane Gay, Oct 12, 2021
Politics In a Reversal, London Will Keep Two Statues of Slaveowners on View (But With Explanatory Texts) Plaques will now be installed alongside the memorials of William Beckford and Sir John Cass. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 12, 2021
