Op-Ed The UK Government Has Refused to Compensate Dealers Affected by Its Ivory-Trading Ban. Here’s Why That Has Big Implications The country's handling of the ban could have widespread legal ramifications concerning personal property. By Tom Snelling, Jul 24, 2020
Opinion In Defense of ‘Radical Chic’: How Tom Wolfe’s 1970 Essay Offers a Warning About Debates Over ‘Performative Activism’ Now What if we looked at the history of "Radical Chic" not from the POV of a celebrity reporter but from that of the activists he was skewering? By Ben Davis, Jul 22, 2020
Opinion The Gray Market: Why the Entire Art World Should Back Canadian Arts Workers’ Push for Universal Basic Income (and Other Insights) Our columnist connects the Canadian art industry’s advocacy for UBI to a week of chilling findings from across the art map. By Tim Schneider, Jul 19, 2020
Opinion How to Explain the Malaise of the Post-Internet Art Scene + Two Other Illuminating Reads From Around the Web A weekly round-up of interesting and important readings from around the internet. By Ben Davis, Jul 17, 2020
Opinion ‘No More Tokens’: Why Museums Need to Stop Pigeonholing Non-Western Artists The London-based sculptor writes a call to arms for artists to reject being tokenized by museums that refuse to engage fully with their work. By Anish Kapoor, Jul 12, 2020
Opinion The Gray Market: Why Going Into Business With James Murdoch Should Be a No-Brainer for Art Basel and the MCH Group (and Other Insights) Our columnist tunnels past the toxic legacy of James Murdoch’s lineage and finds a nearly ideal blue-chip art-fair investor. By Tim Schneider, Jul 12, 2020
Opinion How Will Advanced Technologies Impact the Art World? 3 Takeaways From the Serpentine’s Future Art Ecosystems Report The Serpentine's chief technology officer and its curator consider the future of art and technology from an infrastructural perspective. By Ben Vickers & Victoria Ivanova, Jul 10, 2020
Opinion How Paul Pfeiffer and Arthur Jafa Help Rethink the Ethics of Sharing Traumatic Imagery + Two Other Illuminating Reads From Around the Web A weekly round-up of interesting and important readings from around the internet. By Ben Davis, Jul 10, 2020
Opinion Are TV Art Auctions the New Televangelism? In a World Gone Mad, Kenny Schachter Tunes In to Watch the Fast and Furious Flipping [UPDATED] America's beaches are jam-packed, and so is our columnist's surprisingly busy summer art-market schedule these days. By Kenny Schachter, Jul 7, 2020
Opinion The Gray Market: Why an Indie Rock Star’s Reparations Pledge Sets an Example for the Art World (and Other Insights) Our columnist explores the art-market applicability of Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy's ongoing financial support of racial-justice nonprofits. By Tim Schneider, Jul 5, 2020
Opinion The Gray Market: Why the American Art Market Is at the Mercy of a Culturally Divided Nation (and Other Insights) Our columnist considers how the European Union's pending ban on US travelers puts the stateside art business at a unique disadvantage. By Tim Schneider, Jun 28, 2020
Opinion If Museums in the US Want to Be More Inclusive, They First Have to Recognize—and Unlearn—Old Habits and Biases Developing new kinds of cultural institutions also means developing new vocabularies. By Renaud Proch, Jun 25, 2020
Opinion On the Limits of Care and Knowledge: 15 Points Museums Must Understand to Dismantle Structural Injustice The artistic director of the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial explores what museums must internalize before moving forward with equity work. By Yesomi Umolu, Jun 25, 2020
Opinion Can a Museum Post My Artwork on Its Instagram Without My Permission? + Other Thorny Artists’-Rights Questions, Answered Can the police really appropriate the Punisher logo for their merch? How do I protect my art in countries outside the US? We're here to help. By Katarina Feder, Jun 23, 2020
Opinion The Gray Market: Why Online Art Fairs Aren’t Solving the ‘Fairtigue’ Problem (and Other Insights) Fresh off Art Basel's latest online viewing rooms, our columnist explains why virtual fairs are still exhausting the art world. By Tim Schneider, Jun 21, 2020
