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    The U.K. Government’s Decision to Slash Arts Funding in Higher Education Is Short-Sighted. We Must Remind Our Politicians Why Art Is Essential

    The director of the Contemporary Visual Arts Network, England, comments on the recent decision to slash subsidies for arts education.

    By Paula Orrell, Aug 11, 2021

  • Op-Ed

    Why Do Forgeries Sometimes Deceive Even the Most Venerable Experts? Because We All Want to Believe

    As the author of the catalogues raisonnés for Grandma Moses and Egon Schiele, Jane Kallir has encountered a lot of fakes in her career.

    By Jane Kallir, Aug 9, 2021

  • Op-Ed

    What My Mentor, Paula Rego, Taught Me About Feminism, Drawing, and the Potential of a Well-Told Story

    Critics of Rego's work have failed to engage with it on a meaningful level.

    By Natalie Frank, Jul 23, 2021

  • Op-Ed

    As a Belgian Politician, I Feel a Responsibility to Restitute Stolen Artifacts to the Congo. Here’s Why My Fellow Citizens Should, Too

    We have to abolish the historical and structural inequality of knowledge.

    By Thomas Dermine, Jul 23, 2021

  • Op-Ed

    The Art World Is Reckoning With Calls for Social Justice. Could Biennials Show Us How to Change With the Times?

    The director of Counterpublic in St. Louis on how cyclical exhibitions can teach us about the art of reinvention.

    By James McAnally, Jul 20, 2021

  • Op-Ed

    Arts Philanthropists Need to Change the Way They Think About Disability. Let’s Start by Collaborating With Disabled Artists

    Sheppard, an artist, and Harwell, an arts funder, say that when it comes to disability, the art world is asking the wrong questions.

    By Alice Sheppard & Lane Harwell, Jul 16, 2021

  • Op-Ed

    As the Art Industry Has Ballooned, So Has the Number of People Claiming to Be Expert Advisors. Here’s How to Tell If They Actually Are

    A collector's relationship with an art advisor can be extremely rewarding—or discouraging.

    By Megan Fox Kelly, Jun 29, 2021

  • Op-Ed

    What Do the Inigo Philbrick Scandal and the NFT Craze Have in Common? They Can Help Us Rebuild the Art Market

    Two professors of sociology and visual arts administration explore how to build a better art world by thinking about the artist as a citizen.

    By Amy Whitaker & Fiona Greenland, Jun 22, 2021

  • Op-Ed

    The Organizers of a Major U.K. Exhibition Used My Name to Promote Their Show. But They Were Too Afraid to Embrace My Ideas

    "The Great Big Art Exhibition" rejected an artwork I made that focused on political prisoners. What was the real reason?

    By Ai Weiwei, Jun 2, 2021

  • Op-Ed

    Anti-Black Discrimination and Toxic Workplaces Are All Too Common in the Arts Administration Field

    My experience as the first Black male arts program manager for the Office of Arts & Culture for the City of Seattle.

    By Paul Rucker, May 26, 2021

  • Op-Ed

    Rick Santorum Said America Came ‘From Nothing.’ He’s Part of a Long History of Indigenous Erasure That Plays Out in Art and Life

    The former U.S. senator's statement sparked a firestorm. But those who know the visual and political legacy of the rhetoric aren't surprised.

    By Joseph Pierce, Apr 29, 2021

  • Op-Ed

    Why Andy Warhol’s ‘Prince Series,’ the Subject of a Long-Term Copyright Dispute, Should Be Considered Fair Use After All

    Two legal experts explain why a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of Google should inform the way courts think about art.

    By Christopher Sprigman & Kal Raustiala, Apr 27, 2021

  • Op-Ed

    The Public Shouldn’t Have to Pay to Be Members of Museums. That’s Why We’re Abolishing the Fees at Our Institution

    The director of the ICA at VCU explains why pay-for-play museum membership should become a thing of the past.

    By Dominic Asmall Willsdon, Apr 21, 2021

  • Op-Ed

    How Museums Could Reimagine Themselves in the Aftermath of the Black Lives Matter and Rhodes Must Fall Movements

    The time has come for a radical and qualitative change in imagination, language, and culture.

    By Malgorzata Ludwisiak , Apr 15, 2021

  • Op-Ed

    Artists Have Been Attempting to Secure Royalties on Their Work for More Than a Century. Blockchain Finally Offers Them a Breakthrough

    There's a throughline from attempts to reform the art market in the '60s to artists like Simon de la Rouviere's work today.

    By Charlotte Kent, Apr 7, 2021

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