Politics A London Museum Has Put Forth a Plan That Could Make It the Next Institution to Repatriate Benin Bronzes The Horniman Museum and Gardens in London is home to 15 Benin Bronzes. By Artnet News, Apr 7, 2021
Op-Ed Artists Have Been Attempting to Secure Royalties on Their Work for More Than a Century. Blockchain Finally Offers Them a Breakthrough There's a throughline from attempts to reform the art market in the '60s to artists like Simon de la Rouviere's work today. By Charlotte Kent, Apr 6, 2021
Crime Dutch Police Have Arrested a Man Suspected of Brazenly Stealing Paintings by Van Gogh and Hals From Locked-Down Museums The paintings have not yet been recovered. By Caroline Goldstein, Apr 6, 2021
Opinion The Gray Market: Why Vaccine-Related Perks Are a Poor Fit for Much of the Art Market (and Other Insights) Our columnist examines the reasons the art industry is unlikely to mimic retailers by offering freebies and discounts to the inoculated. By Tim Schneider, Apr 4, 2021
Opinion How One Artist Became a Warrior for QAnon + 4 Great Art Essays Worth Reading From This March A round-up of ideas from around the art web. By Ben Davis, Apr 2, 2021
Politics Artists Stage Sit-Ins to Protest South Africa’s Mismanagement of Pandemic Aid and ‘Disappeared’ Funds for the Culture Sector The culture ministry is currently investigating its own funding body. By Kate Brown, Apr 1, 2021
Politics New York’s Mayoral Race Is in Full Swing. We Asked Each Candidate How They Plan to Support Arts and Culture Platforms range from the establishment of TikTok-style hype houses to a New Deal-style initiative to put artists back to work. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 31, 2021
Crime Spanish Police Seized Forged Paintings Attributed to El Greco, Goya, and Modigliani After a Dealer Tried to Sell Them for €12.5 Million Buyers had already lined up for the fake paintings. By Artnet News, Mar 30, 2021
Politics The Director of Hong Kong’s M+ Museum Said It Would Be ‘No Problem’ to Show Political Works. She May Have Spoken Too Soon Behind the scenes of the story rocking Hong Kong's art world. By Vivienne Chow, Mar 30, 2021
Opinion What the NFT World Can Learn From the Great ’90s Comic Book Bubble. (It’s a Cautionary Tale) Lessons for Beeple and Grimes from the days of Deadpool and Spawn. By Ben Davis, Mar 29, 2021
Politics The Musée d’Orsay Will Be Renamed the Musée d’Orsay–Valéry Giscard d’Estaing—Really—in Honor of the Late French President Behind Its Founding The former president helped establish the popular museum. By Artnet News, Mar 29, 2021
Op-Ed Artists Are Facing Unprecedented Hardship. To Help Them, Philanthropists Must Change the Way They Work—by Working Together Our collaborative fellowship offers a model for the future of arts philanthropy. By Deana Haggag & Shelley Trott, Mar 28, 2021
Opinion The Gray Market: How Deep-Pocketed Crypto-Collectors Are Rushing Into an Old Art-Market Trap (and Other Insights) Our columnist sees eerie parallels between the art spending of today’s crypto-wealthy buyers and an ill-fated group in the late 1980s. By Tim Schneider, Mar 28, 2021
Op-Ed Thoughtful Deaccessioning Is Part of Any Art Museum’s Mission. But the Lax Rules We Have Now Will Haunt Us Later As large institutions move to sell works from their collections, they tacitly authorize smaller ones to do the same. By Erik H. Neil, Mar 25, 2021
Opinion I Visited the Digital Beeple Art Museum and All I Got Was an Aggressive Pitch for My Money Is this really the future of online art? By Ben Davis, Mar 24, 2021
