Even if DEI dies, arts organizations should still move toward the accessibility that has always been at the core of the effort. Here’s how.

I showed up at the Manhattan courthouse with my watercolor pencils and paper in hand only to find that everyone wanted “the shot,” and that this work is not for the faint of heart.

The president’s obsession with cultural control is evidence of a continued fascist creep, and not just another joke exercise in narcissism.

Donald Trump's move to revive "traditional" architecture in federal buildings betrays his ignorance of its elitist roots.

Why aren’t galleries supposed to issue 1099s to their artists? And what should you do if they send you one?

Artists have long faced censorship on the company’s platforms, but new guidelines limiting content moderation are far from a boon to free speech.

The idea of public criticism as “talking shit” rather than a collaborative venture permeates the arts, and it’s ultimately counterproductive.

The burning of large areas in the city suggests the dusk of America as a dream manufacturer, and the beginnings of a darker story.

What purpose does this creative enrichment serve when the buildings that host it are harmful?

When sales are robust, it confirms that producing and selling art is actually a viable activity. When sales falter, our world begins to feel untenable.

The authorities inadvertently transformed a perp walk photo of the accused killer of a healthcare CEO into a Renaissance painting of the arrest of Christ.

To criticize the Vatican’s nativity with a now-removed Jesus in a keffiyeh would be to dismiss the artistic history of crèches centering marginalized people.

Chiquita has no place in the arts, let alone at an art fair with deep ties to Latin America.

I am always unfortunately attuned to the manner in which people respond to the color brown.

In the dark genre of self-reported atrocity photography, governments take pictures of their crimes and file them away in an act of simultaneous remembering and forgetting.

After 27 months of union contract delays, we’ve had no choice but to take drastic measures.

Maurizio Cattelan swims in the same swamp as those he pretends to parody.

Everyone from museums and nonprofit galleries to universities and art publications should be concerned.

The student who stripped her clothes to protest the country’s oppressive dress code fits into an evolving movement of body-based feminist activism.

Studio glass practitioners pride themselves on rejecting industry, but the cyclone laid bare the movement’s entwinement with mining.

The house was already on fire, and both presidential candidates showed up to the race brandishing a box of matches.

Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial reminds us of a wound on and of this nation, and the risks of forgetting.

After the devastation of the Chmielnicki Massacres, there began an outpouring of mysticism and a steadfast commitment to joy in the face of hopelessness.

Divya Mehra’s drawing series The End of You drives home who’s oblivious to the end of the world and who isn't.

The darkest soil can often grow the richest crops.

The sense of collective strength throughout the three-day event was as palpable as the beats of the drums during the performances, the rhythms we felt in our gut.

On a visit to the Brooklyn Museum on October 7, 2023, I felt proud to see a Palestinian “thobe” like the ones I study. But then I saw the wall label.

Despite the venom Trump and Vance direct toward our community, Haitians are not the impoverished, alien invaders they want us to be.

The collaboration is a terrific opportunity for Koons to finally get some exposure.

Contrary to what tradwives might have you think, the church was once a safe haven from anti-queerness.

We began our friendship with shop talk. Suddenly, being an artist and being a dentist didn’t feel so different.

Art museums should take their educational role more seriously, and offer more creative programming for schools and their students.

Despite its role as a hub for Native artists, SWAIA hasn’t entirely moved past its origins in White settler obsession with Native authenticity.

Most of the objectors to Denzel Washington’s accent are men who think too much about the Roman Empire. Here’s how the accent has changed throughout cinema.

Tips for arts organizations on how to get it right through times of inequity and unrest.

Morrison reminds us to dwell in Black visions, to give ourselves over to them entirely, and to do so in language that does not plead for understanding.

Critics of the opening ceremony betrayed their ignorance of Christianity’s pagan roots — and the real reason behind their ire toward the show.

The Diné symbol was suppressed for decades by a settler-dominated art market that conflated it with the Nazi insignia.

In the compulsive analysis of the former president’s image, we risk overlooking the mundanity of gun violence and its less mediagenic casualties.

The vandal who beheaded Esther Strauss’s sculpture of the Virgin Mary in labor disregarded centuries-old depictions of the mother of God as just a mother.

Historic arts enclaves like Provincetown, Key West, and Taos, and American culture at large, lose when they fail to invest in artists and writers.

No other museum in living memory has permitted the mass arrest of members of the arts community engaged in a non-violent assembly.

What went so wrong that the brilliant sculptor’s work became so little known? Simply put, she entered Rodin’s studio.

Just like Velázquez’s last portrait of King Philip IV of Spain, Yeo’s blood-red painting signifies the imminent downfall of a monarch.

Those of us in arts philanthropy need to redouble our efforts to fund artists and organizations of color and sharpen our grantmaking practices to advance racial justice.

Deborah De Robertis’s protest performance signifies precisely what is wrong with current feminist discourse.

Inside Berlin’s censorship of a Palestine solidarity conference that police shut down as soon as it began.

The student protest was a most fitting setting for a peaceful, focused, and deeply moving Passover seder.

In 1974, the San Francisco Art Institute isolated Joanne Leonard’s series Journal of a Miscarriage from the rest of the works in her solo show. Has anything changed since?

It’s time to acknowledge the Hudson Yards staircase sculpture for what it has become: a memorial.