Politics Easter Island’s Mayor Says a Monumental Moai Sculpture Is Better Off in the British Museum Support for the British Museum coincides with an activist-led tour of "stolen art" that included the sculpture Hoa Hakananai’a. By Kate Brown, Dec 11, 2018
Politics Released From Jail, Artist Tania Bruguera Vows to Remain in Cuba to Continue Her Fight Against a New Censorship Law The news comes after the government watered down elements of the law. By Henri Neuendorf, Dec 10, 2018
Politics Demonstrators Fill the Whitney Museum—and Burn Sage—to Protest Its Vice Chairman’s Ties to Tear Gas Manufacturer Decolonize This Place and other activist groups brought banners and chants to the Whitney Museum this weekend. By Sarah Cascone, Dec 10, 2018
Politics Can Art Help Heal a Divided Nation? Here Are 6 Ways That Red-State Museums Are Reaching Across the Political Gap Directors from four museums in conservative states weigh in on strategies for going beyond the art world's "blue bubbles." By Rachel Corbett, Dec 9, 2018
Politics With a $84 Million Makeover, Belgium’s Africa Museum Is Trying to Appease Critics of the Country’s Colonial Crimes The $84 million restoration includes bringing contemporary African artists into the galleries of the "last colonial museum." By Kate Brown, Dec 7, 2018
Politics Who Says Art Is Useless? A German Art Collective Outs 25 Neo-Nazis in an Online Sting Operation The far-right extremists thought they got away with rioting in the city of Chemnitz in August. By Henri Neuendorf, Dec 7, 2018
Politics Major Paris Museums Are Shuttering as France Braces for a Fresh Wave of ‘Yellow Vest’ Demonstrations The Louvre, Centre Pompidou, Grand Palais, and the MusĂ©e d’Orsay are all shuttering as France is rocked by protest. By Javier Pes, Dec 7, 2018
Politics The Whitney ‘Cannot Right All the Ills of an Unjust World’: Adam Weinberg Responds to Staff Protests Over a Board Member More than 100 staff members have signed a letter protesting Whitney vice-chairman Warren Kanders. By Caroline Goldstein, Dec 3, 2018
Politics Whitney Staff Members Call for the Resignation of the Museum’s Vice Chair Over His Ties to a Tear Gas Manufacturer Warren B. Kanders owns Safariland, which has been under scrutiny for the role its munitions play at the US-Mexico border. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 30, 2018
Politics Senegal and the Ivory Coast Ask France to Return Looted Art in the Wake of a Groundbreaking Restitution Report Days after the publication of a major report, calls for the return of African cultural heritage gain momentum. By Henri Neuendorf, Nov 29, 2018
Politics ‘We Are Sacrificing Culture for Politics’: Israeli Artists Burn Their Art to Protest a Repressive New ‘Loyalty’ Bill The government's proposed 'Loyalty in Culture' bill has been compared to censorship. By Henri Neuendorf, Nov 27, 2018
Politics An Art-Covered Stretch of the Berlin Wall Has Now Been Saved From Encroaching Real Estate Developers In 1990, over 100 artists and street artists decorated the important piece of German history. By Kate Brown, Nov 23, 2018
Politics A War on ‘Collective Memory’: A Sober Report Reveals the Extent of the Damage to War-Torn Cultural Sites in Yemen The document demands that all parties involved in the conflict work to protect Yemen's important cultural heritage. By Kate Brown, Nov 21, 2018
Politics Delegates From Easter Island Meet With the Top Brass at the British Museum to Demand the Return of a Monumental Head Sculpture Museum authorities will travel to Rapa Nui to continue the discussion in the coming months. By Naomi Rea, Nov 20, 2018
Politics Zoe Leonard Releases an Edition of Her Beloved ‘I Want a President’ Poem to Support an HIV Activist Group The artist's 1992 work has had a special resonance since the election of Donald Trump. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 18, 2018
