Scores of cultural heritage sites are in ruins amid a fragile truce and an ongoing war of narratives.

I couldn’t in good conscience accept an invitation to an exhibition hosted and sponsored by a brutal regime.

An oversight board made recommendations against the company’s restrictive female nudity policies. Will Instagram comply?

No one would call an artist from India “British” or an artist from Peru “Spanish,” so why do museums continue to label Ukrainian artists as "Russian"?

Mace-Hopkins, who died at age 24 during an artist residency in Scotland, was my partner and collaborator.

In an open letter, the Society for American Archaeology accused journalist Graham Hancock's docuseries of disparaging experts while promoting “racist, white supremacist ideologies.”

To close the gender pay gap in the field, we must first gain a better understanding of how systems of inequality shape the compensation and career experiences of art professionals.

Art critic Lucy Lippard’s first outing as a feminist curator in 1971 has, until recently, been almost entirely absent from history.

Museum guard Dereck Stafford Mangus urges museumgoers to put their phones down, just for a minute.

Helen Molesworth's true-crime sensation marginalizes the artist's life and legacy.

What does it mean when the world's richest person trolls us?

American artists were instrumental in propagating the false narrative of Thanksgiving, a deliberate erasure of violence against Indigenous peoples.

Prominent museum directors declaring that they are "deeply shaken" by climate activists is a resounding failure of leadership.

The Met's deal with the Greek government to "repatriate" billionaire Leonard Stern's Cycladic art collection is not what it seems.

When the profits from every sale are dumped right back into medical costs, what does the balance of surviving and creating even look like?

Often, there is a disconnect between the museum world and Roma representation. One exhibition at the National Gallery of Art proves that it doesn't have to be this way.

Treating Kanye West’s latest statements as exceptional, rather than a routine expression of the everyday reality of white supremacy, is only making the problem worse.

America was our promised land but we might not be safe here anymore.

Unsurprisingly, the artistic and ethical shortcomings of AI image generators are tied to their dependence on capital and capitalism.

And it’s mostly our own fault.

The real target of Just Stop Oil's tomato soup action wasn’t Van Gogh's painting. It was our complacency.

Typical reactions to fat bodies in the art world range from pity to fascination.

Land acknowledgment without action is an empty gesture, exculpatory and self-serving.

We are fighting for ourselves and the working standards we deserve, but we are also fighting for the heart and future of the institution.

The British monarch and Donald Trump have both tried to impose neoclassical architecture on their countries — and one of them actually succeeded.

The problem with Andrew Dominik's biopic Blonde is its assumption that Monroe’s victimization was the most fascinating thing about her.

What would it look like if museums turned their billions toward positive good instead of questionable investments simply for profit?

Despite his reportedly encyclopedic knowledge of the region’s geologic and mineral makeup, Heizer has displayed a baffling incuriousness about the larger story of the land he digs, cuts, and plows.

This is what happens when boozed-up patrons party next to priceless mosaics, statues, and vases.

At first, seeing exhibitions incorporating home furnishings worried me, thinking they turn galleries into shops for luxury goods. But this concern is misguided.

Liberal establishment darling David Frum mocks repatriation efforts as a “ritual of self-purification through purgation.”

Some US museums will overlook the dubious origins of acquisitions if it suits their purposes.

Why should the people of Pharping celebrate their sacred festival with a replica of a 400-year-old idol while the original clearly sits in the collection of a Singapore museum?

Plants are invading the space of humans in art, at a time when human activity is invading every corner of nature.

And no, Cambodia doesn't need the Metropolitan Museum's help in preserving its cultural heritage.

"A fine mist filled my eyes and I caught myself holding back the tears," writes Dereck Stafford Mangus, an artist and a security guard at the Baltimore Museum of Art.

“The work of cultural restitution must be about what we give up, not just what or how we give back,” writes Dan Hicks in response to Arts Council England’s new restitution guidelines for museums.

At the retrospective of Sophie Taeuber-Arp, I thought to myself: Am I crazy? I must be tripping, this is straight out of Africa!

The absence of an explicit framing of American art, in all of its diversity, as a visual culture of empire distorts and hampers our ability to understand — and reimagine — our social world.

The unorthodox bodies that Donatello sculpted seem intertwined with the unorthodox relationship he developed between his own body and the bodies of other queer men.

As an official observer, advocate, survivor, and citizen, I spiraled into a vertigo worsened by the adamant conjectures of fanatics and truthers.

Readers and creators need more than a handful of publishers committed to seeking out diverse talent.

We were told that women were on the peripheries of the artistic movement, while in fact they were driving it forward, energetically engaging in this radical pictorial language.

As the global consensus on restitution passes the tipping point, some skepticism towards these sudden, improbable Damascene conversions towards restitution is probably justified.

As museums readily draft land acknowledgments, they should also be ready to leverage their presence and power on the land to meet the needs of their neighbors today.

Some have compared her album art to John Collier’s 19th-century portrait of Lady Godiva, but Beyoncé can channel her radical spirit without evoking Western art history.

Arts funding could better respond to the socio-political crisis of the day by identifying and supporting artists who are central to their communities.

Ukrainian people have been using folk art, music, and traditions to resist the war and foster hope.

In this moment of racial reckoning, we cannot continue viewing Homer's masterpiece as an apolitical seascape painting.

Cammie Tipton-Amini's opinion piece "When Ukraine Was Newly Independent and Everything Was Possible" employs simplistic whataboutism that dangerously echoes Putin's lies.