Art World Art Industry News: Arts Organizations Stream Into DC to Protest Trump’s Tariffs on Chinese Goods + Other Stories Plus, Jewish scholars rally to support a German museum director and the doors of a Berlin techno club become a museum piece. By Artnet News, Jun 19, 2019
Art & Exhibitions The Age of Equivocation? Venice Biennale Curator Ralph Rugoff on Why Ambiguity Is the Aesthetic of Our Time The curator of this year's Venice Biennale lays out his top priorities for the show, considered a State of the Union for contemporary art. By Andrew Goldstein, Apr 2, 2019
On View Moscow Conceptualist Pavel Pepperstein on Why Some of His Best Art Was Made When He Was a Child—or on Acid The Russian art star's retrospective is on view at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow. By Rachel Corbett, Mar 20, 2019
Law & Politics Police Have Evacuated Saint Petersburg’s Storied Hermitage Museum Due to a Bomb Threat The museum's director and senior staff remain at their posts, but the museum is closed. By Javier Pes, Feb 21, 2019
Art & Exhibitions As Bloomberg Mulls a Presidential Run, His Namesake Art Shed Will Open With an Ambitious—And Decidedly Woke—Lineup A show pairing Tony Cokes and Oscar Murillo is among the newly announced programming. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 9, 2019
Art World This Year, Archaeologists Discovered How the Egyptians Built the Pyramids. Here Are 16 Other Amazing Discoveries of 2018 From tombs in ancient Egypt to the "holy grail" of sunken treasures, it was a big year for cultural discoveries. By Sarah Cascone, Dec 27, 2018
Art & Exhibitions How Europe’s Oldest Arts Festival Is Confronting the Rise of Nationalism Set in the Austrian city of Graz, the arts festival Steirischer Herbst will try to delve into populism's grey zones. By Kate Brown, Sep 18, 2018
People ‘Oksana Shachko Invented a Grammar of Activism’: How the Co-Founder of FEMEN Used Art as a Powerful Feminist Statement In recent years Shachko was working as a full-time artist painting transgressive religious icons. By Naomi Rea, Jul 26, 2018
Art World Is This the Russian Vivian Maier? 30,000 Negatives by an Unsung Street Photographer Turn Up in a St. Petersburg Attic Years after Masha Ivashintsova's death, her daughter discovered a lifetime of Leningrad street photographs in the attic. By Kate Brown, Mar 26, 2018
Art World Why the World’s Top Scientists Are Clamoring to Collaborate With Conceptual Artist Tavares Strachan Strachan is the first artist-in-residence at the Allen Institute and has been collaborating for years on a mysterious project with SpaceX. By Sarah Cascone, Mar 22, 2018
Art & Exhibitions How the New Museum’s Triennial Sabotages Its Own Revolutionary Mission What's all this talk of propaganda? By Ben Davis, Feb 20, 2018
Art World Editors’ Picks: 18 Things to See in New York This Week Artist talks with Michelle Obama portraitist Amy Sherald and Devan Shimoyama are among this week's highlights. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 27, 2017
Art World Editors’ Picks: 12 Things to See in New York This Week There's plenty of art to see once you've recovered from Thanksgiving dinner. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 20, 2017
Art & Exhibitions New York’s New Museum Announces the Lineup of Young Artists for Its 2018 Triennial Curators look far afield in an effort to present a truly global roster of emerging artists. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 13, 2017
Art & Exhibitions Thanks to Kusama, the Hirshhorn Welcomes Its One Millionth Visitor This Year The lucky museumgoer received a complimentary membership—and cake! By Sarah Cascone, Oct 31, 2017