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
Art Criticism Why You Should Take Note of Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya, Whose Shapeshifting Assemblages Build a Mythology of Survival “Ex Situ Canis Latrans” at Murmurs L.A. shows this artist's powerful symbolic use of broken and decaying materials. By Barbara Calderón, Sep 1, 2021
Politics The Director of Estonia’s National Museum Has Been Named President—of the Entire Country Alar Karis ran uncontested in the election. By Caroline Goldstein, Sep 1, 2021
Op-Ed The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Must End Its Head-in-the-Sand Approach to Justice When It Comes to Restitution The head of the Monuments Men Foundation on the pain-staking research into the real history behind a Bellotto painting at the MFAH. By Robert Edsel, Aug 30, 2021
Curiosities Is Space the Final Frontier for Artwashing? Who Owns That Blue, Tiffany or Listerine? + Other Questions I Have About the Week’s Art News Will MoMA's new merch win me the respect I deserve? Has the New York Post ever met a Gen Zer? By Ben Davis, Aug 30, 2021
