Politics How a Devious Handshake Deal Let Arthur Sackler Store His Artworks in a Secret Gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for Years Patrick Radden Keefe's 'Empire of Pain' includes some strange details about the Sackler family's art collecting past. By Caroline Goldstein, Apr 30, 2021
Politics Top Collectors Don’t Like to Discuss Their Families’ Nazi Ties. Now, Artists Are Forcing Them to Confront the Past A new generation of artists and activists is sparking a formerly taboo conversation. By Quynh Tran, Apr 30, 2021
Politics In a ‘Historic Milestone,’ Germany Will Begin to Return Benin Bronzes From Its Public Collections to Nigeria in 2022 The move is without precedent. By Kate Brown, Apr 29, 2021
Op-Ed Rick Santorum Said America Came ‘From Nothing.’ He’s Part of a Long History of Indigenous Erasure That Plays Out in Art and Life The former U.S. senator's statement sparked a firestorm. But those who know the visual and political legacy of the rhetoric aren't surprised. By Joseph Pierce, Apr 29, 2021
Opinion The Gray Market: Why the ‘YOLO Economy’ Actually Spells Trouble for the Fragile Art Ecosystem (and Other Insights) Our columnist considers whether the forces driving young professionals to switch careers are driving the art industry into submission. By Tim Schneider, Apr 27, 2021
Op-Ed Why Andy Warhol’s ‘Prince Series,’ the Subject of a Long-Term Copyright Dispute, Should Be Considered Fair Use After All Two legal experts explain why a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of Google should inform the way courts think about art. By Christopher Sprigman & Kal Raustiala, Apr 26, 2021
Crime Florida Just Made It a Felony to Damage Confederate Monuments as Part of Its Controversial New ‘Public Disorder’ Law Protesters who damage historic property will now face harsher punishments, including prison sentences. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 22, 2021
Opinion If Khloé Kardashian Can Sue People for Posting an Unflattering Photo of Her, Why Can’t I? + Other Artists’-Rights Questions, Answered Plus, can artists cash in on their archive the way musicians monetize their catalogues? And do I need to worry about my Zoom performance art? By Katarina Feder, Apr 21, 2021
Politics How ‘Classically Beautiful’ European Architecture Became a (Failed) Rallying Cry for a Hard-Right Republican Caucus Anti-modernism was a serious talking point of Marjorie Taylor Greene's aborted America First Caucus. By Ben Davis, Apr 21, 2021
Opinion Kenny Schachter on the NFT Scheme He Cooked Up With Jerry Saltz to Make Some Big Money (for Charity), and Why It Made Jerry… Less Than Ecstatic Our columnist is up to no good again—but this time it's for a good cause! Oh and Jerry's a part of this tale too. By Kenny Schachter, Apr 21, 2021
Opinion The Gray Market: How a Brazen Hack of That $69 Million Beeple Revealed the True Vulnerability of the NFT Market (and Other Insights) Our columnist explores whether a project called NFTheft undermines a core value proposition of non-fungible tokens. By Tim Schneider, Apr 20, 2021
Op-Ed The Public Shouldn’t Have to Pay to Be Members of Museums. That’s Why We’re Abolishing the Fees at Our Institution The director of the ICA at VCU explains why pay-for-play museum membership should become a thing of the past. By Dominic Asmall Willsdon, Apr 20, 2021
Crime The U.S. Returns 33 Antiquities Stolen From Afghanistan That Are Linked to Disgraced Dealer Subhash Kapoor To date, the D.A. has repatriated more than 2,500 works connected with the former art dealer. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 20, 2021
Politics Chicago Will Turbocharge Its Public Art Budget by 15,000 Percent as Part of a New $60 Million Cultural Recovery Program It's the city’s largest support plan for the arts sector in years. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 20, 2021
Opinion Alice Neel’s Communism Is Essential to Her Art. You Can See It in the ‘Battlefield’ of Her Paintings, and Her Ruthless Portrait of Her Son The great painter's survey at the Met shows how she believed in art as way of intervening in history. By Ben Davis, Apr 15, 2021
