Opinion What’s the Deal With That Essay About How the ‘Waffle House Brawl’ Is Like an Edward Hopper Painting? Here’s My Guess Viral culture is flattening everything into one incoherent mass. By Ben Davis, Feb 5, 2023
Op-Ed A Black Aquatic: An Artist Explores the Relationship Between Black People and Water This is the latest in a series of essays commissioned from artists by PROTODISPATCH. By Kenya (Robinson), Jan 13, 2023
Curiosities The Leaning Tower of Pisa Now Leans Less, Its Infamous Tilt Having Been Reduced by 1.6 Inches Over the Last Two Decades Stabilization efforts have corrected the monument's once-dangerous lean. By Vittoria Benzine, Dec 22, 2022
Opinion I Visited New York’s Immersive Klimt Spectacular With One of the World’s Preeminent Gustav Klimt Experts. Here’s What Happened Jane Kallir took "Gold in Motion," as the immersive experience is called, more seriously than I expected she might. By Ben Davis, Nov 28, 2022
Op-Ed COP27 Brought Forward Key Lessons for the Art World. Here’s How It Can Step Up and Get Involved There are some urgent takeaways from the climate conference that those in the art industry should know. By Isla Angus, Nov 28, 2022
Know Your Rights Why Can the Uffizi Sue Jean Paul Gaultier for Putting Botticelli’s ‘Venus’ on a T-Shirt? + More Artists-Rights’ Questions, Answered Plus, did James Cameron totally rip-off Harlan Ellison when he made “The Terminator”? And can I project some slides of 1980s computer art in a gallery show without asking the artist for permission? By Katarina Feder, Nov 22, 2022
Opinion There Has to Be a Better Way to Argue About the Climate-Activist Attacks on Art The strategy of "pushing cultural buttons" comes with a price. By Ben Davis, Nov 20, 2022
Op-Ed The New School’s Part-Time Faculty Can’t Afford Not to Strike. We’re Fighting to Survive And we're fighting for the values that the school stands for. By Ana Tuazon, Nov 19, 2022
Curiosities A Paris Museum Is Granting Visitors Special Hours to View Its Nude Sculpture Show in the Nude Museé Maillol has partnered with the French Federation of Naturism to host sessions when visitors can attend its "Hyperrealism" exhibition au naturel. By Vittoria Benzine, Nov 14, 2022
Op-Ed There Is a Long History of Vandalizing Art for a Cause. But Is It Effective? The author of "Takedown: Art and Power in the Digital Age" explores what the past can teach us about the current eco-protest wave. By Farah Nayeri, Nov 2, 2022
Op-Ed What We Hold in Common: Making Meaning by Collecting Objects and Narratives of the Present, the Earth, and the Deep Past This is the latest in a series of essays commissioned from artists by PROTODISPATCH. By Ishmael Randall-Weeks & Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Nov 1, 2022
Art Criticism Matthew Wong’s First Museum Retrospective Cements the Tragic Artist’s Reputation as a Master of Melancholy Style “The Realm of Appearances” is on view at the Dallas Museum of Art, through February 19, 2023. By Barry Schwabsky, Oct 31, 2022
Op-Ed I Make Art With A.I. Here’s Why All Artists Need to Stop Worrying and Embrace the Technology Creators could have a hand in how the technology develops, directing its use in new mediums. By Agnieszka Pilat, Oct 26, 2022
Art Criticism The Tudor Dynasty Seethed With Insecurity and Intrigue. A New Met Show Suggests That’s What Made Its Art So Lasting “The Tudors" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art shows a dazzling array of visual strategies for rule. By Eleanor Heartney, Oct 18, 2022
Know Your Rights What Happens If My A.I. Art Prompt Spontaneously Produces Shrek? + More Artists’-Rights Questions, Answered Plus, why did ‘The People’s Joker’ get shut down if parody is protected? And can famous lines from books be used in an advertising campaign? By Katarina Feder, Oct 10, 2022