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
Op-Ed Why Artist and Museum Merchandise Is the Next Major Growth Category for the Ever-Expanding Art Market Museums, galleries, and even individual artists are clamoring for a piece of the growing pie. And it's only just beginning. By Elliot Safra, Mar 3, 2022
Op-Ed Russian Cultural Elites Want to Call This Putin’s War. But They, Too, Bear Responsibility for the Atrocities in Ukraine How the long-running political passivity of many Russian intellectuals paved the way to the current war with Ukraine. By Oleksandr Vynogradov & Lisa Korneichuk, Mar 2, 2022
Op-Ed Creative Time Organized a Forum for 8 Illustrious Thinkers to Imagine How Institutions Can Do Better. Here’s What They Said The first lesson of the Creative Time Think Tank? Listening is not enough. By Natasha Logan & Justine Ludwig, Feb 27, 2022
Curiosities The Culturati Are Betting on a Vibe Shift. But We May Actually Be Stuck in Vibe Purgatory Unpacking a great new catchphrase. By Ben Davis, Feb 25, 2022
Know Your Rights I Made the Clothes for a Fashion Photo That Sold Big at Art Basel Miami Beach. Do I Get a Cut? + More Artists’-Rights Questions, Answered Plus, what happens if Marvel sues the creator of my knock-off Spider-Man NFT? And what's the deal with Spice DAO's fail at Christie's? By Katarina Feder, Feb 25, 2022