Opinion The Gray Market: Why Many Working Artists Are Much Closer to a Venice Biennale Pavilion Than They Realize (and Other Insights) Our columnist finds unsettling common ground between the average artist and their few peers exhibiting in the 2019 Venice Biennale. By Tim Schneider, May 12, 2019
Politics ‘Artists Can Be Guides in This Troubled Epoch’: Thaddaeus Ropac Backs a Pro-European Exhibition and Benefit Auction On the eve of crucial European elections, works by leading artists including Elmgreen & Dragset and Marina Abramovic will celebrate a united Europe. By Kate Brown, May 9, 2019
Politics Enduring a Political Crisis at Home, Venezuela Postpones the Opening of Its Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Organizers say it'll open next week, but the building remains empty and padlocked, with trash bags piled up outside. By Julia Halperin, May 8, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: Why a New Exhibition Satirizing the Elite Art Market Misses Its Target (and Other Insights) Our columnist visits artist Eric Doeringer's exhibition of "bootleg" blue-chip works to see what it can—and can't—say about the art market. By Tim Schneider, May 5, 2019
Opinion ‘I’m the Donald Trump of the Art World,’ Sean Scully Says in His New Movie. Kenny Schachter Has a Few Other Descriptors to Add The abstract painter shows a mind-boggling degree of self-regard in a new BBC film about his life, our columnist writes. By Kenny Schachter, May 5, 2019
Politics Following Backlash, the Turner Prize Swiftly Drops Sponsorship From a Company Founded by an Anti-LGBT Activist After a public outcry over the company founder's anti-gay agenda, Stagecoach will not sponsor the Turner Prize. By Sarah Cascone, May 2, 2019
Opinion How Did Leonardo da Vinci Become So Famous? 500 Years After His Death, a New Book Offers Some Intriguing Answers The authors of 'The Da Vinci Legacy' make a case for an alternate reading of history. By Jean-Pierre Isbouts & Christopher Brown, May 1, 2019
Politics Will the Fourth Time Be the Charm? US Legislators Have Reintroduced a Bill to Open the National Museum of the American Latino If approved, the museum will join the Smithsonian Institution museums on the National Mall in Washington. By Eileen Kinsella, May 1, 2019
Politics A Polish Museum Censored a Feminist Artist’s Phallic Work. Then a Banana-Eating Army of Protesters Stepped In Prominent figures including Claire Bishop and Paulina Ołowska have signed an open letter admonishing the museum. By Hili Perlson, Apr 30, 2019
Politics More Than Half of the Artists Included in the Whitney Biennial Are Calling for Trustee Warren Kanders to Resign Forty-six of the artists included in the upcoming Whitney Biennial have signed on. By Kate Brown, Apr 30, 2019
Politics Do You Come From a Wealthy Family? You’re More Likely to Become an Artist Than Someone From a Poorer Background A recent study based on US census data suggests that artists tend to come from rich families. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 29, 2019
Politics Artists, Curators, and Academics Call on MoMA and Trustee Larry Fink to Divest From Private Prisons Nearly all the participants in a recent conference at the museum signed the letter. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 29, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: Why Hollywood’s Love Affair With ‘Art Boys’ Reveals Something Bigger About the Art Market (and Other Insights) Our columnist takes a serious look at A-list stars' recent interest in pairing up with 'Art Boys' like Cooke Maroney and Lucas Zwirner. By Tim Schneider, Apr 28, 2019
Politics LACMA Sold LA on Its Shrunken Zumthor Building by Promising to Add Satellites Around the City. Now That May Create Even More Problems LACMA's building plan has become a lighting rod for the debate over what a 21st-century museum should be. By Catherine Wagley, Apr 25, 2019
Politics New York City Is Launching Its Own Green New Deal. Now Museums Have to Get Up to Code—and Fast The 33 cultural institutions on city-owned property are tasked with cutting emissions in half by 2030. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 23, 2019
