Art World Experts Launch a Massive New Wikipedia-Style Archive to Address the Lack of Research on Women Artists From Central Europe The project, called Secondary Archive, debuts with 250 entries on artists from Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary. By Kate Brown, Apr 15, 2021
Art World Art Industry News: The British Government Announces an Official Stance to ‘Retain and Explain’ Controversial Monuments + Other Stories Plus, a closed IKEA in the United Kingdom may become an arts center, and yet another art fair gets moved to September. By Artnet News, Feb 16, 2021
Art World Ukraine Unveils Plans for a $100 Million Interactive Holocaust Memorial, But Faces Criticism Over Director’s Proposal to Experiment on Visitors Controversial filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovsky is leading the project—and has Marina Abramović on his team. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 27, 2021
Art World Memes Are Dominating Attention Spans and Clicks Like Never Before. So Why Is Serious Socially Engaged Art Also Thriving? Read an excerpt from the new book "More Art in the Public Eye." By Gregory Sholette, Dec 24, 2020
Art World Art Industry News: The First Real-Life, Honest-to-God, In-Person Art Fair of 2021 May Take Place in March in Dubai + Other Stories Plus, New York City awards $47 million in cultural grants and German auction houses had a surprisingly good year. By Artnet News, Dec 16, 2020
Politics ‘Nobody Could Remain Silent’: The Killing of an Artist and Activist in Belarus Has Added Fuel to Widespread Protests Against the Government The country's president was recently re-elected in a widely disputed election. By Kate Brown & Naomi Rea, Dec 2, 2020
Art World Nicole Eisenman, Martin Puryear, and 100 Other Artists and Intellectuals Call on Museums to Reinstate the Postponed Philip Guston Retrospective “The people who run our great institutions do not want trouble," the letter reads. "They lack faith in the intelligence of their audience.” By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 30, 2020
Law & Politics A New Report on Transnational Crime Shows That the Business of Smuggling Cultural Property Is Not as Big as People Think The World Customs Organization's illicit trade report shows cultural heritage crime pales in comparison to other risk categories. By Ivan Macquisten, Sep 28, 2020
Opinion The Gray Market: Why a Senate Investigation Suggests Art-Market Self-Regulation Is Fatally Flawed (and Other Insights) Our columnist gives his takeaways from a sordid report on how two sanctioned Russian billionaires laundered millions through the art market. By Tim Schneider, Aug 3, 2020
Galleries Price Check! Here’s What Sold—and for How Much—at the Online Editions of the Dallas Art Fair, Art Basel Hong Kong, and David Zwirner’s ‘Platform’ We've adapted our art-fair sales column for our new virtual world. By Eileen Kinsella & Tim Schneider, Apr 23, 2020
People Hunter Biden Has Left Lobbying to Become a Fine Artist. So What Does the Art World Think of Joe Biden’s Son’s Work? Biden says his practice of making blown ink abstractions on paper helped him in his struggle with addiction. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 28, 2020
Law & Politics Trump’s Impeachment Lawyer Alan Dershowitz May Have Owned Looted Antiquities, an Art Crime Expert Says Experts say Dershowitz is emblematic of collectors in this fraught market, where a lack of documentation is common and troubling. By Zachary Small, Feb 7, 2020
Art World Hong Kong Quickly Shutters Its Museums and Public Spaces to Stop the Spread of the Deadly Coronavirus The pandemic casts a further shadow over Art Basel Hong Kong, which was already facing a slew of problems. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 28, 2020
On View Alfred Jarry’s ‘King Ubu’ Inspired Everyone From the Dadaists to the Beatles—and His Fascist Buffoon Is Now More Relevant Than Ever Without the 19th-century French firebrand, we may never have had Surrealism, Dada, or $120,000 bananas. By Menachem Wecker, Jan 27, 2020
People ‘How We Perceive the Past Has a Great Bearing on How We Live Now’: Art Historian James Meyer on Why the 1960s Won’t Fade Away In his new book, the curator and historian suggests that some eras produce memories that cannot be forgotten. By Pac Pobric, Jan 15, 2020