Politics Two Artists Withdraw Their Work From a Show at the Shed in Protest of Billionaire Board Member and Trump Funder Stephen Ross A.L. Steiner and Zackary Drucker quietly removed their work to protest Ross's recent Trump fundraiser. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 23, 2019
Opinion The Guardian Arts Editor Sparked a Furor by Suggesting Curators Don’t Need to Be Named in Reviews. Here’s What’s Really at Stake At the heart of the debate is the matter of curatorial prestige—and pay. By Naomi Rea, Aug 23, 2019
Politics Commissioned by Boris Johnson as the Eiffel Tower of London, Anish Kapoor’s ‘Orbit’ Is Now More Than $15 Million in Debt In a failed attempt to draw visitors, the work was re-designed by Carsten Höller to make it the world's longest slide. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 22, 2019
Politics Author Alice Walker Decries the Efforts to Censor San Francisco’s George Washington Murals as ‘Ignorant and Backwards’ Walker's words were quoted by the San Francisco School Board head to justify destroying the murals in the first place. By Caroline Goldstein, Aug 20, 2019
Politics See Why One Feminist Artist’s Protest of Old Master Depictions of Women at the Prado Museum Went Instantly Viral Anastasia Bengoechea held up signs to protest sexual stereotyping at the Madrid museum. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 20, 2019
Politics The Artist Who Painted Jeffrey Epstein’s Portrait of Bill Clinton in a Dress Tells Us Why She Made It, and What It Means Petrina Ryan-Kleid wants to clear up a few things about the image. By Ben Davis, Aug 19, 2019
Politics Venice Has Fined the Architect Santiago Calatrava $86,000 for Building a Bridge That—Oops—Can’t Handle Tourists The world-renowned architect argued that tourists dragging wheeled luggage was "incorrect use" of his glass-and-steel bridge over the Grand Canal. By Naomi Rea, Aug 19, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: Why Pace Gallery’s New Tech Initiative Could Worsen One Art-World Problem by Solving Another (and Other Insights) Our columnist on the likely limitations of PaceX, the mega-gallery's new initiative to expand the market for tech- and experience-based art. By Tim Schneider, Aug 18, 2019
Politics Jenny Holzer, Sanford Biggers, and Others Are Vying to Design a Pulse Nightclub Memorial Museum. But a New Group Is Opposing It A group of survivors, families of victims, and queer activists say the museum is an effort to “monetize the tragedy." By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 16, 2019
Politics A Sculpture That Was Censored From Japan’s Aichi Triennale Will Become a Centerpiece of a New Museum for Banned Art The Spanish collector Taxto Benet plans to install the work in his forthcoming Freedom Museum. By Javier Pes, Aug 15, 2019
Politics 30 Years Ago, Ai Weiwei Was an Extra in a Puccini Opera. Now He’s Directing One—to Address the Hong Kong Protests As always, Ai is taking inspiration from contemporary political events. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 15, 2019
Opinion Why Apple’s New Augmented-Reality Collaboration With Famous Artists Won’t Help Us Reach the Next Stage of [AR]T [AR]T is a team-up with the New Museum that implants app-enabled art at Apple Stores around the world. By Ben Davis, Aug 15, 2019
Politics In a Reversal, the San Francisco School Board Has Voted to Cover, Not Destroy, a Series of Controversial High School Murals The move comes after intensifying political pressure on the board, and statements from leaders of the local NAACP and actor Danny Glover. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 14, 2019
Politics Museums Across the UK Are Making Doomsday Plans for Brexit. Here Are Their Biggest Fears Registrars are making contingency plans to avoid having valuable works of art damaged during arduous customs procedures. By Javier Pes, Aug 13, 2019
Politics Trump Official Rephrases Emma Lazarus’s Plaque on the Statue of Liberty to Justify a New Immigration Policy The Trump administration's new immigration regulations seem to contradict the message of Emma Lazarus's "The New Colossus." So an official rewrote it. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 13, 2019
