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 4, 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 3, 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 28, 2022
Op-Ed Collectors Have an Ethical Responsibility to Keep the Art Market Fair. Here Are 8 Key Rules to Hold Them Accountable A group of like-minded collectors have drawn up a formal Code of Conduct for Contemporary Art Collectors. By Piergiorgio Pepe, on behalf of Ethics of Collecting, Feb 24, 2022
Op-Ed Art Programming for Former U.S. Prisoners Is Practically Nonexistent. Here’s Why That Should Change The founders of Silver Art Projects argue that art is essential in helping reintegrate former prisoners into society. By Joshua Pulman & Cory Silverstein, Feb 4, 2022
Op-Ed Art Institutions Aren’t Doing Enough to Lead on Climate Change. Here’s How the Industry Should Rethink Its Responsibility The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation is taking one key step with the launch of the new Climate Art Awards. By András Szántó & Orville Schell, Jan 17, 2022
Op-Ed The U.K. Has Held Onto the Parthenon Marbles for Centuries—But the Tide Is Turning. Here’s Why I Expect Them to Be Returned by 2030 Lockdowns have played a significant role in shifting the public's perception on restitution. By Dan Hicks, Dec 15, 2021
Op-Ed Mentorship Can Help Make the Art Industry Less Opaque and Exclusionary. Here’s How to Make the Relationship Work Mentorship is vital in the art world, a sector that does not offer linear career paths or transparent information. By Cat Manson, Dec 9, 2021
Op-Ed Selling Art on Commission Is Unfair to Artists. Here’s Why a Direct-to-Consumer Approach Is the Future of the Art Market Artist and nonprofit gallery founder Stacie McCormick makes the case for alternative sales models. By Stacie McCormick, Nov 24, 2021
Op-Ed The Recent Sale of Amy Sherald’s ‘Welfare Queen’ Symbolizes the Urgent Need for Resale Royalties and Economic Equity for Artists There are creative ways that collectors, auction houses, and artists can collaborate to build a system of "resale equity." By Cheryl Finley & Lauren van Haaften-Schick & Christian Reeder & Amy Whitaker, Nov 22, 2021
Op-Ed Artists Can Help Us Imagine a New Relationship with the Earth. That’s Why We Need Their Voices at COP26 Art and science are partners in this urgent conversation. By Christopher Smith, Nov 9, 2021
Op-Ed If You Want to Support the Arts in America, Invest in the South. Here’s Why A person living in the South sees $1 of arts philanthropy for every $4 someone in the Northeast gets. That's a problem. By Susie Surkamer & Joy Young, Nov 3, 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 11, 2021