Politics Artist Hamlet Lavastida Has Been Arrested in Havana as Cuban Officials Continue Their Crackdown on Artistic Expression Lavastida was arrested days after returning from a residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. By Kate Brown, Jun 28, 2021
Politics Cuban Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara Has Been Released After a Hunger Strike and Four Weeks in Custody The artist and activist was forcibly hospitalized after going on a hunger strike to protest government censorship. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 1, 2021
Market What a Steal! For Less Than $250, You Can Get a Set of Limited-Edition Artworks by the Likes of Jenny Holzer and Martin Creed Mailed to Your Door The portfolio, a nod to a cultish mail art project from the late 1960s, is available for pre-sale now. By Artnet News, Feb 24, 2021
Art World In an Unprecedented Action, Thousands of Cubans Are Publicly Demanding the Resignation of Culture Minister Alpidio Alonso Alonso was captured on video physically confronting demonstrators on January 27. By Brian Boucher, Feb 19, 2021
Art World Art Industry News: 18 Highly Agitated Swiss Museum Directors Are Demanding an End to Museum Closures + Other Stories Plus, Antony Gormley decries a highway upgrade that will block his public artwork and Sweden will build a Holocaust museum. By Artnet News, Jan 28, 2021
Art World Rhizome Is Partnering With Hyundai on a Series of Ambitious New-Media Exhibitions Over the Next Two Years A group show of augmented reality, virtual reality, and artificial-intelligence art will kick off the partnership later this month. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 20, 2021
Art World The Year in Pictures: From Global Protests to Museum Heists, Here Are the Images That Tell the Story of 2020 The news cycle never let up this year. By Artnet News, Dec 25, 2020
Politics After Protesting for Artistic Freedom, Cuban Authorities Detained Artist Tania Bruguera and Put Her Under House Arrest “We want political freedom: respect for those who think differently," the artist says. "Basic stuff!” By Brian Boucher, Dec 7, 2020
Art World Havana Officials Reached a Historic Agreement With Protesters Over Artistic Freedom. Then Cuba’s President Denounced the Deal The culture minister met with Tania Bruguera and other artists for hours over the weekend. By Brian Boucher, Dec 1, 2020
On View ‘All of These Woman Hide in Some Way’: Painter Aliza Nisenbaum on Tutoring Migrants to Express Themselves Through Art As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. By Caroline Goldstein, Jul 30, 2020
Art World From Emory Douglas’s Activist Art to Murakami’s Money Woes: The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week Catch up on this week's news—fast. By Caroline Goldstein, Jul 3, 2020
Law & Politics Cuban Authorities Detained Artist Tania Bruguera While She Was on Her Way to a Protest Against Police Violence in Havana Bruguera was one of at least 40 dissident artists and activists taken into custody by Cuban authorities prior to the event. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 1, 2020
Art & Exhibitions Is the Age of the Blockbuster Exhibition Over? A Perfect Storm of Challenges Suggests It May Be a Thing of the Past Widespread uncertainty has put tremendous pressure on an exhibitions model that has been adopted by museums around the world. By Kate Brown, Jun 30, 2020
Art World Art Industry News: Why the Arts Need a New Deal-Style Government Bailout Just Like the Airlines + Other Stories Plus, museum leaders ask Congress for $4 billion and a long-lost work by Ana Mendieta sparks a lawsuit against Sotheby's. By Artnet News, Mar 20, 2020
Opinion The 100 Works of Art That Defined the Decade, Ranked: Part 2 In the second installment of a four-part series, our critic reveals his picks—number 75 through number 51—of the key art of the 2010s. By Ben Davis, Dec 30, 2019
