Politics Why the New Museum’s Bronx ‘Ideas’ Festival Was Such a Fiasco—and What It Teaches Museums About Their Role in Gentrification The collapse raises the question of whether it is possible for institutions to engage with communities in a "non-extractive" way. By Catherine Wagley, Nov 27, 2019
Politics A Key Impeachment Witness, Gordon Sondland Is Also a ‘Lover of Art.’ Here’s What We Know About His Multimillion-Dollar Art Collection The diplomat and wealthy hotelier owns a collection valued at up to $25 million. By Naomi Rea, Nov 22, 2019
Politics Would Michael Bloomberg Be the Most Pro-Art President of All Time? We Took a Look at His Impressive Record From dissolving his New York predecessor’s 'decency commission' to a nationwide record of billions in support of the arts, Mayor Mike could be a new Medici in Washington. By Brian Boucher, Nov 21, 2019
Politics Caught Impeachment Fever? This Gallery Is Selling Courtroom Drawings From the Hearings That Brought Down a Previous President The dramatic pastels capture the Nixon administration's legal troubles in the mid-1970s. By Maxwell Williams, Nov 20, 2019
Politics Beijing Censors Have Forbidden the Ullens Center From Staging a Survey on the Chinese-American Artist Hung Liu The show was scheduled to open in December. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 20, 2019
Politics France Returns to Senegal a 19th-Century Saber That It Looted During the Colonial Period It is the latest effort in France to rectify historical wrongs. By Naomi Rea, Nov 18, 2019
Politics Nan Goldin’s Opioid Activist Group Storms the Victoria & Albert Museum in London to Protest the Sackler Family’s Ties to the Museum The protest group is calling out the museum's director, Tristram Hunt, for his outspoken support of the Sacklers. By Kate Brown, Nov 16, 2019
Politics Why Did the US Deny Kurdish Artist Zehra Doğan’s Visa? She Doesn’t Know—and She’s Not the Only One Affected "They made me feel like a criminal," the artist said of the visa application process. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 15, 2019
Politics Venice’s Regional Council Voted Against Climate-Change Measures This Week. Only Minutes Later, Their Chambers Flooded The city is experiencing its worst flooding in half a century. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 15, 2019
Politics The Guerrilla Girls Are Targeting MoMA Trustees Tied to Jeffrey Epstein With an Ad on a Phone Booth Outside the Museum The ad calls out board members Leon Black and Glenn Dubin. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 13, 2019
Politics China’s President Pledges His Support to Greece in Its Effort to Recover the Parthenon Marbles From the British Museum Greece has campaigned for three decades for the British Museum to repatriate the marbles. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 13, 2019
Politics The Organizers of Iraq’s Venice Biennale Pavilion Have Closed the Show in Solidarity With Anti-Government Protests Rocking the Country The foundation behind the pavilion is calling for a strike by cultural institutions in Iraq. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 12, 2019
Politics California Is Spending $2.4 Million to Build the World’s Largest Permanent Installation of Climate Change-Themed Art Works by Tomás Saraceno, Allora & Calzadilla, and others will appear in 2021. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 12, 2019
Politics After the Fall: 30 Years On, Germany’s Art World Reflects on the Night the Berlin Wall Fell (and What Came After) Monica Bonvicini, Thomas Scheibitz, and other art-world figures remember the landmark moment in history on November 9, 1989. By Kate Brown, Nov 8, 2019
Politics The Japanese Embassy in Austria Has Withdrawn Support for a Show That Includes Controversial Japanese Artists Some of the artists in the show also participated in the censored Aichi Triennale. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 6, 2019
