Politics Russian Oligarch Vladimir Potanin Steps Down From the Guggenheim’s Board After Two Decades Potanin was one of a group of oligarchs who met with the Russian president at the Kremlin last week. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 3, 2022
Politics Russian Billionaire Petr Aven Resigns as a Royal Academy Trustee as Arts Institutions Face Mounting Pressure to Cut Ties with Russia The museum says it returned the donation Aven made to support its current Francis Bacon exhibition. By Vivienne Chow, Mar 2, 2022
Politics ‘Everything We Say Can Be Used Against Us’: Russian Art Workers Weigh the Risks of Speaking Out Against the War in Ukraine Actions that were once considered risky are now in many cases outright dangerous. By Sarah Cascone & Katya Kazakina, Mar 1, 2022
Politics Russia Has Bombed Babyn Yar, Site of a Memorial to Ukrainian Jews Executed by Nazis At least five people were killed and another five were injured in the incident. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 1, 2022
Politics Oscar Murillo, Tai Shani, and Other Artists Are Pulling Their Work From a Manchester Museum to Protest Its Director’s Ouster The former director faced backlash after staging a show that supported Palestine. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 28, 2022
Politics Artists Are Halting Collaborations With Russia—But Not Everyone Agrees That Cultural Boycotts Are the Right Approach As the military invasion of Ukraine continued over the weekend, artists requested the closure of their ongoing exhibitions in Russia. By Anna Sansom, Feb 28, 2022
Politics The Organizers of Ukraine’s Venice Biennale Pavilion Say They May Not Be Able to Stage the Event ‘Due to the Danger to Our Lives’ "If we continue being passive observers of the situation, we will lose everything." By Sarah Cascone, Feb 24, 2022
Politics ‘I Am Not Running From My Home’: Pavlo Makov, the Artist Representing Ukraine in the Venice Biennale, on Selling Art to Help Arm the Front Lines Makov spoke to Artnet News from his home in Ukraine's second-largest city, where he is sheltering with his family. By Kate Brown, Feb 24, 2022
Politics A Manchester Museum Director Has Been Forced Out After a Group of Pro-Israel Attorneys Objected to His Forensic Architecture Show The human-rights research group included a statement in support of Palestine in its show. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 23, 2022
Politics London’s National Portrait Gallery Ends Its Partnership With Oil Giant BP, Following Years of Pressure From Artists and Environmentalists The news comes just one day after an activist group railed against the British Museum's partnership with the oil giant. By Caroline Goldstein, Feb 22, 2022
Politics A Chorus of Prominent Artists and Museum Directors Blast the Funding of a New Berlin Art Center as ‘Scandalous’ Some 650 prominent figures, including Hito Steyerl and Kader Attia, are protesting the new Kunsthalle Berlin and the "Smerling System." By Kate Brown, Feb 18, 2022
Politics U.S. Leaders Are Calling for the Release of Cuban Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, Who Has Been Detained for Months Without Trial Concern is growing over Alcántara, who launched a hunger strike in protest of his imprisonment. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 18, 2022
Politics A New Report Shows How Hard POC Arts Organizations in New York Must Fight for Funding Just to Stay Afloat The report, published by Hue Arts NYC, accompanies a new interactive map and directory of 400-plus POC cultural organizations in the city. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 16, 2022
Politics A Venice Coalition Is Protesting Plans to Permanently House a Biennale Archive in the Arsenale The Forum Futuro Arsenale's alternative vision proposes a center for boat maintenance with space for local artists. By Caroline Goldstein, Feb 10, 2022
Politics The Abrupt Removal of the U.N.’s 25-Foot Tapestry of Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ Caused an Uproar. Now, the Mystery Has Been Solved The tapestry was commissioned by Nelson Rockefeller in 1955 and has lived at the UN on loan since 1984. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 8, 2022
