Politics Dozens of US War Veterans Are Urging MoMA to Reject ‘Toxic Philanthropy’ From Investors in Private Military Companies Their letter was sent in solidarity with artists who have asked the institution to cut ties with controversial board members. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 4, 2020
Politics After a Backlash, Nashville’s Belmont University Says It Will Let Non-Christian Art Professors Teach After All Watkins College of Art, which is being absorbed, was originally told that Belmont had a firm no non-Christians policy. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 4, 2020
Politics Poland’s Museums Are Taking a Radically Conservative Turn—and the Fight Over Who Gets to Control Them Is Only Beginning The appointment of conservative firebrand Piotr Bernatowicz is at the center of a growing battle over the future of Poland's museums. By Hili Perlson, Feb 3, 2020
Politics A Nashville Art School Will Purge All Non-Christian Faculty Now That It Has Been Taken Over by a Religious University "That’s just part of who we are,” says Belmont University's provost of the firings at the Watkins College of Art. By Zachary Small, Jan 31, 2020
Politics After Beating Back a Populist Surge, Italy’s Leaders Will Again Allow Foreigners to Apply for Museum Directorships Thirteen posts are now open to those wishing to apply from abroad. By Kate Brown, Jan 30, 2020
Politics ‘I Am Not Part of Some Propaganda Machine’: Artists and Curators Defend Their Participation in the Saudi-Backed Show Desert X AlUla Artistic director Neville Wakefield says that those who don't embrace cross-cultural exchange are "part of the problem." By Rebecca Anne Proctor, Jan 28, 2020
Politics Yale Is Eliminating Its Art History Survey Course Over Complaints That It Prioritizes a White, Western Canon Over Other Narratives The news has caused an uproar among conservatives online. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 27, 2020
Politics Chinese Authorities Have Locked Down the Great Wall of China and Beijing’s Forbidden City to Limit the Spread of Coronavirus The deadly virus has claimed the lives of 81 people. By Naomi Rea, Jan 27, 2020
Politics ‘It Was a Question of ‘How Far Will They Go?”: Former Art Students Remember How Jeffrey Epstein Tested Their Boundaries Graduates from the New York Academy of Art detail a day on Epstein's Zorro Ranch, where he promised to give one of them a lucrative commission. By Rachel Corbett, Jan 26, 2020
Politics Documenta Curator Adam Szymczyk Distances the Organization From Patron Sindika Dokolo, the Target of an International Fraud Investigation Sindika Dokolo's foundation pumped €340,000 into Documenta's coffers for its 2017 edition. By Kate Brown, Jan 24, 2020
Politics The US–China Trade Agreement Has Been Hailed as a Boon for Business—But Buyers Will Still Have to Pay Steep Tariffs on Chinese Art Despite a cut in the tariff rate, import taxes on art remain high. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 23, 2020
Politics Activist Artists Hack the New Museum’s Hans Haacke Survey in an Effort to Expose the Museum’s Hidden Capitalist Agenda Grayson Earle and "M" targeted the artist's 'New Museum Survey.' By Caroline Goldstein, Jan 22, 2020
Politics Brazil’s Culture Secretary Has Been Fired After Quoting Joseph Goebbels in a Chilling Speech That Sparked Immediate Outrage Roberto Alvim had pledged to create a "cultural war machine" against progressive ideas. By Zachary Small, Jan 17, 2020
Politics Vladimir Putin Has Asked Two Russian Museum Directors to Help Him Rewrite the Country’s Constitution So He Can Stay in Power The directors of the Hermitage Museum and Tretyakov Gallery have been given a big task by the Russian president. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 16, 2020
Politics Three Dozen Artists Showing at MoMA PS1 Sign a Letter Urging the Museum to Sever Its Ties With Controversial Trustees About half of the artists in the show "Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991–2011" signed the letter. By Eileen Kinsella, Jan 14, 2020
