Books
Art Writing as an Extension of Life
Artists in My Life dissolves the fourth wall between artist, art object, and viewer, offering a welcome approach to arts writing as an extension of how artists live.
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Opinion
I'm a Philadelphia Museum of Art Worker and This Is Why We're Striking
We are fighting for ourselves and the working standards we deserve, but we are also fighting for the heart and future of the institution.
Art
America’s Overlooked Landscape Painters
Masterworks of American Landscape Painting at the Center for Figurative Painting makes clear that the term “landscape” has been widely interpreted.
News
Christie’s Tasteless “Art Handler” Shirts Removed After Criticism
The auction house partnered with Highsnobiety to sell "Art Handler" shirts for up to $125, drawing ire from workers in the field who say they’re overworked and underpaid.
Opinion
King Charles Wants to Make Britain "Beautiful" Again
The British monarch and Donald Trump have both tried to impose neoclassical architecture on their countries — and one of them actually succeeded.
Art
Lesser-Known Masterpiece by Artemisia Gentileschi Goes on View
A painting now exhibited at the Nasjonalmuseet captures Judith and her maidservant in the moment after slaying Holofernes and before their escape, as though veritably peering out of frame.
News
John Oliver Roasts Museums in Episode on Looted Art
The episode focused on Western museums' hesitant repatriation efforts and auction houses’ questionable consignment practices.
News
The Fight to Save a Site-Specific Artwork in a Dumbo Luxury Condo
The board of 70 Washington Street in Brooklyn, which previously housed an artist residency, is weighing the replacement of Helen Brough’s “Emulated Flora” with generic photographs of Brooklyn landmarks.
Art
How Disney Animation Provides a Gateway to Understanding Rococo
So closely do Disney's animators assimilate the sensibility of French design that on occasion their source material appears almost more Disney than Disney itself.
Art
We Asked AI to Re-Imagine 5 Blue-Chip Art Exhibitions
I inserted the text from five press releases into DALL-E and this is what it churned out.
News
MoMA’s Cruel Offer to Unionized Workers During the Pandemic
The museum offered some workers the option to forgo pay raises in exchange for keeping their jobs, union members told Hyperallergic.
Art
The Fake Art Industry Is Booming Online
From exhibition catalogue pages marketed as original prints to brazenly fake "authorized" copies of Harings and Warhols, we're living in a golden age of art piracy.