Politics State-Run Museums in Georgia Abruptly Fired 40 Employees, Allegedly in Retribution for Forming a Union Critics blame the country’s populist culture minister. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 2, 2022
Politics Vandals Attack a Kassel Arts Venue Where a Palestinian Group Is Set to Show During Documenta The incident occurred amid a raging debate over alleged antisemitism. By Taylor Dafoe, May 31, 2022
Politics ’I Am Not Banksy!’: A Welsh Politician Resigned After a Viral Rumor Identifying Him as the Mystery Artist Made It Impossible to Do His Job "I don’t know if I’m in some mad, fantastic kind of delusion," William Gannon said. By Sarah Cascone, May 26, 2022
Politics French Prime Minister Appoints Performing-Arts Specialist Rima Abdul-Malak as Culture Minister. She Has a Lot to Do Her selection was hailed by gallerists and artists. By Anna Sansom, May 25, 2022
Politics Kharkiv’s Palace of Culture Was Destroyed by a Russian Missile Attack, Leaving Eight Injured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the attack an example of “absolute evil.” By Taylor Dafoe, May 24, 2022
Politics At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Ukrainian Artists Are Staging an Anti-War Show in a House Typically Occupied by Russian Elites On view are documentary photographs and other depictions of extreme violence in besieged Ukrainian cities. By Taylor Dafoe, May 23, 2022
Politics Germany Bumps Up Culture Spending by 7 Percent to $2.4 Billion, Citing Link Between Arts and Democracy The budget represents a 7 percent rise over last year's. By Amah-Rose Abrams, May 20, 2022
Politics ‘No One Should Have the Power to Kill Us All’: Artist Pedro Reyes Is Mounting a Global Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Reyes's installations are on view now at Frieze New York and in Times Square. By Sarah Cascone, May 19, 2022
Politics Arts Council England’s Future Hangs in the Balance as the U.K. Government Looks to Cut Down on Spending The cost-cutting exercise, which affects hundreds of pubic bodies, will be overseen by Jacob Rees-Mogg. By Amah-Rose Abrams, May 18, 2022
Politics Activists Occupied Venice’s V-A-C Foundation, Founded by Oligarch Leonid Mikhelson, to Protest the War in Ukraine The billionaire energy magnate has close ties to the Kremlin. By Sarah Cascone, May 16, 2022
Politics China Tried to Shut Down Dissident Artist Badiucao’s Show in Prague. It Only Made Him More Famous Have China's attempts to silence dissident voices abroad backfired? By Vivienne Chow, May 13, 2022
Politics Barbara Kruger Explains Her Cover for New York Magazine, a Politically Charged Polemic Against the End of Roe v. Wade The image is a callback to one of her most famous works. By Sarah Cascone, May 10, 2022
Politics Russian Forces Have Destroyed Nearly 200 Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Sites, President Zelensky Says The latest site to fall was the historic home of poet-philosopher Hryhorii Skovoroda, razed by a recent artillery strike. By Taylor Dafoe, May 10, 2022
Politics After Hiding Its Prized Collection From Russian Troops, Ukraine’s Largest Art Museum Is Reinstalling It in a Show of Resistance The Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery in western Ukraine has already reopened some of its 18 branches. By Taylor Dafoe, May 9, 2022
Politics A Former Soviet Soldier Turned Dissident Artist Has Opened an Art Space in France for Anti-Putin Voices Artist Andrei Molodkin hopes to provide a safe haven for artists and creatives who resist the establishment. By Vivienne Chow, May 9, 2022
