Art Criticism The Dakar Biennale Returns, Energized by Conversations About African Epistemologies and Colonial Legacies Takeaways from the opening weekend of Dak’Art, historically an important platform for thinking about Négritude. By Tobi Onabolu, May 29, 2022
Art Criticism The MFA Boston Embraced Hard Conversations in Its Philip Guston Show. Why Doesn’t It Examine Its Collection Just as Critically? The exhibition's curators present a dramatic narrative of Guston’s studio as a site of privileged resistance against social injustice. By Leah Triplett Harrington, May 25, 2022
Op-Ed My Art and Tech Company Has a Four-Day Work Week. It’s Made Us More Creative, More Productive, and Much, Much Happier Kickstarter's Head of Arts explains how to move your arts organization to a more flexible and sustainable weekly schedule. By Patton Hindle, May 24, 2022
Art Criticism Critic’s Spotlight: How Felipe Baeza’s Symbolically Charged Dreamscapes Give Body to Contemporary Struggles at the Venice Biennale Baeza's creates a distinctive language of fantasy that encodes queer desire and the immigrant experience. By Barbara Calderón, May 15, 2022
Art Criticism New Perspectives: 6 Artists at the 2022 Venice Biennale Who Are Shifting the Way We Visualize the African Diaspora From Tourmaline to Simone Leigh, artists reflect on the Black imagination as a resource to build new worlds and right wrongs. By Emmanuel Balogun, May 12, 2022
Art Criticism Here Is What the Riddle at the Heart of the 2022 Whitney Biennial Actually Means A philosophy unites the show's many enigmas—but it wants you work to uncover it. By Ben Davis, May 4, 2022
Art Criticism The 2022 Venice Biennale Is an Artistically Outstanding, Philosophically Troubling Hymn to Post-Humanism "Post-humanism" is the master key to the big show. But what does it mean? By Ben Davis, May 1, 2022
Op-Ed I Organized My First Art Show From Behind Bars. Here’s How Incarcerated Curators Can Help Us See the World Differently Rahsaan “New York” Thomas describes why the role of incarcerated curators matters. By Rahsaan Thomas, Apr 27, 2022
Know Your Rights Should the Copyright Lawsuit Against Dua Lipa Make Video Artists Nervous? + Other Artists’-Rights Questions, Answered Plus, what do artists need to know about the Andy Warhol lawsuit headed to the Supreme Court? And what's going on with copyright in Russia? By Katarina Feder, Apr 26, 2022
Opinion 3 Important Lessons Any Arts Organization Can Learn from Oolite Arts’s Expansion in Miami Dennis Scholl lays out the nonprofit's approach to creating sustainable support for the arts. By Dennis Scholl, Apr 12, 2022
Know Your Rights Can I Create and Publish My Own Subversive Wordle? + More Artists’-Rights Questions, Answered Plus, does my ex have any right to TikTok videos of our cat? And who's right in the debate between a Virginia museum and Congolese sculptors? By Katarina Feder, Mar 24, 2022
Op-Ed In the Past Two Years, Museums Have Finally Started Hiring Black Women for Top Jobs. Why Are So Many Already Leaving? It takes ongoing institutional support to create true change. By Lise Ragbir, Mar 16, 2022
Op-Ed Three Years Ago, I Had Dinner With Vladimir Putin. What He Told Me Makes Me Fearful for Ukraine’s Cultural Heritage My impression then, as now, is that Putin fundamentally views Russian culture as indisputable evidence of superiority. By Maya Asha McDonald, Mar 9, 2022
Op-Ed Russians Live in a Police State. Don’t Write Off Its Art Professionals for Failing to Exercise Freedoms They Don’t Have Calls for blanket boycotts lack understanding of the realities of art in Russia. By Anton Svyatsky, Mar 8, 2022
Op-Ed I Grew Up Behind the Iron Curtain. Isolating Russia’s Art and Artists Will Not Help Us Achieve Peace A cultural boycott is not the answer. By András Szántó, Mar 7, 2022
