shining a light on the shadowy fine art industry
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence, 1609.
Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
This week, looking toward the future—and asking how much of a luxury that is…
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VeniceThe canals of Venice. Image courtesy of Picryl.
This week, bringing the art world’s highest-profile exhibition back down to earth…
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Eric Doeringer, Robert Rauschenberg, 2019. Photo by Tim Schneider.
This week, another window into how the financial can be political…
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John Singleton Copley, A Boy With a Flying Squirrel (Henry Pelham), 1765.
Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
This week, drilling into pop culture in search of something deeper…
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Photography by William Warby, courtesy of Flickr.
This week, assessing change at the top of the gallery world—and beyond...
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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Photography by Jean-Christophe Benoist. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
This week, a wrestling match between academia and economics…
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Detail of a Jeff Koons Gazing Ball painting. Photography by Flickr user Ebe9.
This week, examining philanthropy at two of New York’s newest and oldest arts nonprofits…
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Teresita Fernandez, Fire, 2005. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
This week, surveying a newly altered landscape of museum fundraising…
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Still from the teaser for Albert Oehlen's Palazzo Grassi exhibition.
Courtesy of Vimeo.
A 2015 student-debt protest. Photography by Tom Woodward. Image courtesy of Flickr.
This week, a look at higher education inside and outside the arts…
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