Art
Art Alone Cannot Save the Greek City of Elefsina
The city was once a hub for an ancient Greek ritual. Now, efforts to harness its fabled past risk merely aestheticizing its current environmental and economic hardship.
Opinion
Opinion
Something Is Rotten in Germany's Arts Sector
Thanks to selective governmental investment in the arts, a sad joke has emerged — state-funded "radicals."
Opinion
Asian-American Art Is Plagued by Generational Amnesia
Many members of the current generation do not recognize or even know about past efforts to create visibility for Asian-American artists.
Opinion
Discovery of 8,600-Year-Old Bread Gives Rise to Half-Baked Claims
Turkey’s narrative surrounding “the world’s oldest bread” raises questions about how archaeological heritage is used for nationalistic ends.
Opinion
That Time Carl Andre Wrote Me a Letter
He copyrighted the letter and ended it with “for your eyes only,” as if to say, don’t even think of showing this to anybody.
Opinion
Return the Stolen Artifact, But Keep the Museum Label
Naming the wrongs of the past is hard, especially when the wrongs have not yet been entirely righted, but it's crucial.
Opinion
New Anti-Money Laundering Law Can Send Self-Employed Artists to Jail
Luckily, it can be avoided by filling out a simple form.
Opinion
The Art World's Orientalist Fantasies About the Byzantine Empire
In the West, the relationship with Byzantium has taken on the characteristics of other instances of colonial objectification.
Opinion
A Cleveland Museum’s Bad Bet on a Looted Roman Statue
The Cleveland Museum of Art took a gamble in 1986 that none of its peers in the museum field had been willing to take. Now payment has come due.
Opinion
The Ruins Should Be Inhabited as Part of a Process of Repair
The decolonization of Palestine is not only a Palestinian project, but also a Jewish one.
Opinion
Tigray’s Cultural Heritage Is in Danger, But Does the World Care?
The fate of innumerable sacred lives, buildings, and artifacts destroyed mainly by Ethiopian and invading Eritrean troops are still being willfully ignored by Western governments and international organizations.
Opinion
Do Not Stand Idly By
It is because of my proximity to the memory of genocide in Nazi-occupied Poland that I am speaking out against the American-supported Israeli invasion of Gaza.