Politics Amid Strengthening Political Ties With China, Italy Gives the Go-Ahead to Repatriate 800 Chinese Cultural Artifacts The move comes after Italy’s populist government signed on to China’s controversial “belt and road” plan. By Naomi Rea, Mar 25, 2019
Politics Amid Mounting Pressure and Numerous Lawsuits, the Sackler Trust Halts Philanthropic Giving Theresa Sackler says the trust has made the "difficult decision to temporarily pause all new philanthropic giving." By Julia Halperin, Mar 25, 2019
Politics In a Major Move, the Tate Announces It Will No Longer Accept Funding From the Sackler Family The landmark decision comes just days after the National Portrait Gallery dropped funding from the Sackler Trust. By Pac Pobric, Mar 21, 2019
Politics The ‘Father of Crop Art’ Has Transformed Presidential Candidate Beto O’Rourke’s Face Into a Massive Earthwork Talk about art that goes against the grain. By Caroline Goldstein, Mar 19, 2019
Politics In a Landmark Decision, London’s National Portrait Gallery Drops a $1.3 Million Gift from the Sacklers The gallery is the first major art museum to put a donation from the Sackler family on hold, indefinitely. By Kate Brown & Javier Pes, Mar 19, 2019
Politics Trump’s 2020 Budget Is the Largest in Federal History—and It Would Entirely Eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts It's the third straight year Trump has tried to shut down the agency. By Sarah Cascone, Mar 18, 2019
Politics A Texas Teenager Fooled This Conservative Lawmaker Into Posing With His Anti-Trump Painting. See the Video Here The 17-year-old infiltrated a Tea Party event to get his message to Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick. By Caroline Goldstein, Mar 15, 2019
Politics In a Landmark Resolution, German Culture Ministers Pledge to Lay the Groundwork to Return Colonial-Era Art The move comes amid mounting pressure on the country to take responsibility for its colonial past. By Kate Brown, Mar 14, 2019
Politics Silicon Valley Just Got the Green Light to Build a Monument to Itself. What Should It Be? The project will be a gift to the city from the nonprofit San Jose Light Tower Corporation. By Caroline Goldstein, Mar 14, 2019
Politics ‘It’s a Nightmare’: The Venezuelan Art Community Struggles to Stay Afloat Amid a National Political Upheaval Artists and dealers are trying to make sense of a rapidly escalating crisis. By Brian Boucher, Mar 13, 2019
Politics Pro-Trump Artist Julian Raven Is Waging Legal War Against the Smithsonian for Rejecting His Magnum Opus 'Unashamed and Unafraid' was recently featured onstage at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). By Caroline Goldstein, Mar 13, 2019
Politics Majority Frieze Stakeholder Endeavor Quietly Returns Saudi Arabia’s $400 Million Investment The relationship between the American company and the Saudi investors soured after the murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 8, 2019
Politics Italy Has a Change of Heart, Is Now ‘Happy’ Lend Its Leonardo da Vinci Works to France for Anniversary Exhibition The resolution coincides with a broader thaw of diplomatic tensions between the two nations. By Kate Brown, Mar 4, 2019
Politics Meet Stewart Rahr, the Self-Proclaimed ‘Number One King of All Fun,’ Who Drove Up the Price of a Trump Portrait at Auction The pharmaceutical billionaire Stewart Rahr styles himself as a party animal. By Sarah Cascone, Mar 1, 2019
Politics Michael Cohen Just Told Congress That President Trump Directed His Charity to Buy Yet Another Portrait of Himself This is the third portrait of the president that Trump is accused of buying for himself through the Trump Foundation. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 27, 2019
