Politics An Architecture Firm Is Raising Money to Build a Gold Prototype for Trump’s Border Wall Around Mar-a-Lago Chicago's New World Design architecture firm is back with another anti-Trump project. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 15, 2019
Politics After an Outcry, a Public Art Installation Featuring the Saudi Flag Is Being Moved From Its Site Near the World Trade Center Artist Laurence Jenkell's work is now headed to John F. Kennedy airport. By Nan Stewert, Jan 14, 2019
Politics A ‘McJesus’ Sculpture Has Provoked Violent Protests in Israel—and Both the Demonstrators and the Artist Want It Taken Down The museum is fending off government censorship as well as the artist's own request to remove the work in solidarity with a pro-Palestinian boycott of Israel. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 14, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: Why the New Museum’s Union Reckoning Reflects a Much Bigger Problem (and Other Insights) Our columnist zooms out from the New Museum staff's intent to unionize to the larger influence of Big Tech and big money on our world. By Tim Schneider, Jan 13, 2019
Politics ‘People Can’t Live on the Salaries They’re Making’: New Museum Staffers Stage a Demonstration to Support Unionizing In response, the museum has hired a union-busting firm to dissuade the employees from organizing. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 11, 2019
Politics The Louvre’s da Vinci Blockbuster Could Be a Casualty of Political Tensions Between Italy and France Italy’s culture ministry is backtracking on important loans intended to mark the 500th anniversary of the master’s death. By Naomi Rea, Jan 10, 2019
Opinion To Truly Take Ownership of Its Heritage, Africa Needs a New Museum to House Its Returning Cultural Artifacts The Nigerian architect Olajumoke Adenowo argues that building museums will be vital for the future of Africa where 60 percent of the population is under 25. By Olajumoke Adenowo, Jan 10, 2019
Opinion A Month After I Published a Book About How to Run an Art Gallery, I Closed Mine. Here’s Why The co-founder of the gallery yours, mine & ours on the current gallery crisis. By Patton Hindle, Jan 9, 2019
Opinion The Perplexingly Popular Conspiracy Theory That ‘Salvator Mundi’ Is Connected to #Russiagate, Explained Trump, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Christie's, a new shadowy world order... it all adds up! By Ben Davis, Jan 9, 2019
Politics Brazil’s New Right-Wing President Jair Bolsonaro Has Disbanded the Country’s Ministry of Culture Culture, sports, and social policy have all been folded into a new "ministry of citizenship." By Henri Neuendorf, Jan 9, 2019
Politics Want $1,000 in Bitcoin? All You Have to Do Is Solve the Riddle in This French Street Artist’s Mural To get your hands on the money, first you'll have to find the painting, located somewhere in the streets of Paris. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 8, 2019
Opinion What Sister Wendy Beckett, the Late Nun and Popular Art Historian, Taught Me About Being a Curator She made me want to study art history. By Carmen Hermo, Jan 7, 2019
Politics Can’t Work During the US Government Shutdown? One Crafty Agency Suggests Federal Employees Paint to Pay Rent The US Office of Personnel Management tweeted the advice out to 800,000 government employees who are without pay while Trump demands a border wall. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 7, 2019
Politics It Turns Out That the Gurlitt Trove May Not Be the Kunstmuseum Bern’s Only Gift That Is Tainted by Nazi Loot The Swiss museum is investigating Modern masterpieces given by the art dealer George F. Keller whose business partner collaborated with the Nazis. By Kate Brown, Jan 7, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: Why Your Art Collection Isn’t Actually Beating the Stock Market (and Other Insights) Our columnist retrieves what's often lost in art-as-investment talk and weighs in on resistance to the Savoy-Sarr restitution report. By Tim Schneider, Jan 6, 2019
