Curiosities Why Did Lindsay Lohan’s Art Spark Furries’ Fury? What Is the ‘Shadowman Experience’? + More Questions I Have About the Week’s Art News Plus, what is Ted Lasso's take on the rise of African art? By Ben Davis, Nov 1, 2021
Know Your Rights Am I Entitled to a Payday If My Art Has Been Turned Into a Pretty Popular Gif? + Other Artists’-Rights Questions, Answered Plus, how can I make NFTs of work in my local museum without breaking the rules? And am I allowed to make a TV show about Jackson Pollock? By Katarina Feder, Oct 27, 2021
Curiosities What Does the Basketball World Want With Warhol’s Pee? Did Art Just Die at Giza’s Pyramids? + Other Questions I Have About the Week’s Art News Plus, is Buzzfeed's Buzzy the Robot art's next big thing? By Ben Davis, Oct 26, 2021
Curiosities Someone Paid $25 Mil for Banksy Leftovers? Is This the HAL 9000 of Museums? + Other Questions I Have About the Week’s Art News Plus, is October Mist the color to cure all your woes? By Ben Davis, Oct 19, 2021
Curiosities What’s With All the Hitler NFTs? Will Robots Put Street Artists Out of Work? + Other Questions I Have About The Week’s Art News Thoughts on some dumb NFTs, IP dilemmas in the art world and out, and a weird way to sell cashmere sweaters. By Ben Davis, Oct 13, 2021
Art Criticism Roxane Gay on How Artist Calida Rawles Shows Us a New, and More Humane, Way of Bearing Witness The writer explores the significance Rawles's painting "High Tide, Heavy Armor." By Roxane Gay, Oct 12, 2021
Art Criticism If You Don’t Think Jasper Johns Can Still Surprise You, Wait Until You Get to the End of This Review The Whitney and the Philadelphia museums' vast Johns survey is a chance to figure out why he works the way he does, and what it means now. By Ben Davis, Oct 12, 2021
Op-Ed Hans Ulrich Obrist on a Radically Utopian Museum Model That Has Yet to Be Realized—and Why It’s Worth Pursuing Obrist reflects on the legacy of the philosopher Édouard Glissant, whose unrealized ideas offer a path for the future. By Hans Ulrich Obrist, Oct 10, 2021
Curiosities Is There Anything Mr and Mrs Doodle Can’t Do? Is the Guy Who Stole $84K as Art a Hero? + Other Questions I Have About the Week’s Art News Plus, remember that time the Met turned away Brian De Palma? By Ben Davis, Oct 4, 2021
Art Criticism The 34th São Paulo Biennial Has Spread Out, Slowed Down, and Opened Itself Up—But Some Old Barriers Remain “Though It’s Dark, Still I Sing” has been rethought to respond to the pandemic and the political moment. By Tiago Gualberto, Sep 30, 2021
Know Your Rights Can I Be Sued for Making an NFT of a Painting in My Collection? + Other Artists’-Rights Questions, Answered Plus, does the Nirvana baby really have a shot in his lawsuit against the band? And can an artist remake a film shot for shot? By Katarina Feder, Sep 28, 2021
Curiosities Is Jeff Koons as Passionate About Uniqlo as He Sounds? Why Is This Unicorn Named After Picasso? + Other Questions I Have About the Week’s Art News More importantly: What was Michael Crichton doing on a road trip with Jasper Johns? By Ben Davis, Sep 27, 2021
Op-Ed Cuba Is Plowing Ahead With the Havana Biennial—But Don’t Expect the Government to Allow Artists Who Participated in the Recent Protests Artists may want to think twice before participating in this winter's event. By Coco Fusco, Sep 20, 2021
Curiosities How Did Immersive Van Gogh Top Taylor Swift? Does Anyone Ever #AskaCurator? + Other Questions I Have About the Week’s Art News Most importantly: Has Maurizio Cattelan's 'America' toilet been melted down for gold bars? By Ben Davis, Sep 20, 2021
Op-Ed Damien Hirst’s NFT Project Is a Lot Like Mine. But the Differences Speak Volumes About Our Divergent Visions for Crypto-Art Bitchcoin, the first 'artist-backed currency,' is an experiment in vulnerability and democratic patronage. By Sarah Meyohas, Sep 15, 2021
