Know Your Rights: Can I Turn My GameStop Stock Certificate Into a Work of Art? + Other Artists’-Rights Questions, Answered

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Know Your Rights: Can I Turn My GameStop Stock Certificate Into a Work of Art? + Other Artists’-Rights Questions, Answered

Plus, can I sell a line of handmade artworks based on the Met's collection? And would it be possible to turn "War & Peace" into a podcast?

By Katarina Feder, Feb 23, 2021

Op-Ed

I Led the Indianapolis Museum of Art for Five Years. Here’s How Charles Venable, Its Recently Ousted President, Failed the Institution

The museum excluded large parts of its core audience while failing to grow its endowment, despite its former president's business-oriented plans.

By Maxwell Anderson, Feb 22, 2021

Opinion

The Gray Market: Why ‘Global Weirding’ Makes Art Museums Needier Than Ever for Unglamorous Donations (and Other Insights)

Our columnist connects a devastating winter storm in Texas, climate change, and a longstanding drought within cultural philanthropy.

By Tim Schneider, Feb 21, 2021

Politics

After a Military Coup, Artists Across Myanmar Are Making Protest Art to Share Their Struggle for Democracy With the World—See Images Here

The artists of Myanmar are taking a stand against the military coup.

By Sarah Cascone, Feb 16, 2021

Op-Ed

How Can I Tell If My Keith Haring Is Fake? Here Are Five Tell-Tale Clues, According to an Expert

Haring expert Richard Polsky breaks down what you need to know about warning signs in the artist's many bodies of work.

By Richard Polsky, Feb 8, 2021

Politics

Populist Leaders in Central and Eastern Europe Have a New Target in Their Fight Against Liberalism: Art Museum Directors

The Slovenian government is denies it is waging a campaign to oust left-wing museum leaders.

By Dorian Batycka, Feb 7, 2021

Opinion

The Gray Market: How Public-Health Data Can Help Us Predict the Future of Art-Market Recovery (and Other Insights)

Our columnist looks at how major differences in US and international inoculation campaigns are threatening to keep the art world off its axis.

By Tim Schneider, Feb 7, 2021

Politics

To Celebrate the Glass Ceiling Kamala Harris Shattered, This Artist Installed a Portrait of Her in Washington Made Entirely of Cracked Glass

The installation is on view through Saturday night.

By Sarah Cascone, Feb 5, 2021

Politics

Republican Leaders Accuse the National Museum of African American History of ‘Bias’ in Its Display on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas

Prominent Black conservatives and lawmakers call the museum’s display a “disingenuous effort.”

By Brian Boucher, Feb 5, 2021

Politics

The Dutch Government Just Promised to Return Any Stolen Colonial-Era Objects in Its Collections Back to Their Countries of Origin

The government has agreed to adopt recommendation issued by the country's top museum experts.

By Sarah Cascone, Feb 4, 2021

Have You Seen This Art? Austrian Officials Are Searching for 21 Works That a Priest May Have Swiped From a Benedictine Abbey

Authorities have released ads with images of the missing works.

By Kate Brown, Feb 3, 2021

Art Workers Are Up to Six Times More Likely to Be Out of a Job. Now 10 Big-City Mayors Are Imploring Biden to Bail Them Out

Could a New Deal-style bailout save the art economy?

By Sarah Cascone, Jan 29, 2021

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