Politics ‘My Mother Tells Me Not to Go Back to China’: Ai Weiwei Gets Personal as He Accepts the Praemium Imperiale He won the prestigious honor alongside SANAA, Wim Wenders, and several others. By Vivienne Chow, Sep 16, 2022
Politics A Panel Convened to Address Antisemitism at Documenta Called for Action on Yet Another ‘Problematic’ Artwork. The Show’s Artists Claim It’s Censorship “We are angry, we are sad, we are tired, we are united,” the curators wrote in an open letter. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 12, 2022
Politics Why Isn’t Michelle Obama Smiling? What’s Barack’s Fashion Sense Like? The Artists Behind the New White House Portraits Reveal All Robert McCurdy and Sharon Sprung on what went into their long awaited, newly unveiled work By Vittoria Benzine, Sep 9, 2022
Politics 18 Revelatory, Behind-the-Scenes Facts About the Newly Unveiled White House Portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama Painters Robert McCurdy and Sharon Sprung are behind the official images. By Artnet News, Sep 7, 2022
Politics Barack and Michelle Obama Have Returned to the White House to Unveil Their Official Presidential Portraits—See Them Here This is the first portrait unveiling ceremony in more than ten years. By Caroline Goldstein, Sep 7, 2022
Politics What Can the U.K.’s Arts Sector Expect From the New Prime Minister Liz Truss? Here’s What We Know Truss has promised to cut taxes and bring higher-paid jobs to the country—but it remains to be seen if this will help struggling cultural organizations. By Amah-Rose Abrams, Sep 6, 2022
Politics An Israeli Artist Put on a Renegade Exhibition in Kassel to Protest Antisemitism at Documenta The artist sent out official-looking invitations to the show, branded with Documenta's marketing imagery. By Hili Perlson, Aug 31, 2022
Politics Can the Climate Protesters Gluing Themselves to Frames of Masterpieces Damage Irreplaceable Art? We Asked the Experts While some art professionals fear damage to artworks, the American Institute of Conservation is sympathetic to climate organizers. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 29, 2022
Politics Call It a Selfie? Donald Trump’s Own PAC Is Paying for His Official Presidential Portrait With a Donation to the Smithsonian Two unidentified artists have been commissioned to paint the likenesses of Donald and Melania Trump. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 23, 2022
Politics Museum Professionals Accuse Russia of Cultural ‘Genocide’ and Ethics Violations in Ukraine at a Major Industry Conference in Prague Anastasiia Cherednychenko, the vice-chair of ICOM Ukraine, called for the expulsion of ICOM Russia from the organization. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 22, 2022
Politics Saatchi Gallery Has Canceled an Upcoming Benefit Exhibition for Ukraine That Was Organized in Part by Russian Collectors After news of “The Ukrainian Way” was announced, artists took to social media to speak out against the Russian involvement. By Artnet News, Aug 18, 2022
Politics Three Iraqi Artists Withdraw From the Berlin Biennale to Protest an Artwork Depicting Prisoners at Abu Ghraib The show's curators, who apologized for the artwork, have not said whether they will remove it from view. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 17, 2022
Politics ‘We Take Ownership and Responsibility’: Indonesian Collective Taring Padi Reflects on the Controversy Over Their Art That Paralyzed Documenta Members of the group discuss blind spots, censorship, and the need for dialogue. By Kate Brown, Aug 10, 2022
Politics Activists in Italy Glued Themselves to an Umberto Boccioni Sculpture in Milan to Draw Attention to Climate Change “The progress that the Futurists hoped for is the same that is now leading us towards mass extinction,” the group said. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 2, 2022
Politics Documenta, Battered by Scandals, Gets Hit With Yet Another Allegation of Antisemitic Imagery in the Show The images by Burhan Karkoutly are in a pamphlet shown by the Archives of Women’s Struggles in Algeria. By Kate Brown, Jul 28, 2022
