The White House press secretary defended Trump's overhaul of the Kennedy Center, his ballroom project and the EPA museum's closure.
by Adam Schrader
The play revisits the medieval story of Adam’s first wife, recasting Lilith as a woman navigating religious authority, sexual violence and freedom.
A theologian argues that two habits of thought hollow out a culture — a framework that explains the gutting of the arts.
The edition runs artist profiles, obituaries, job listings, an art fairs calendar, a crossword drawn from our online coverage and more.
Urgent Matter's running record of union drives and labor-board complaints at American museums and cultural institutions.
A database tracking lawsuits, settlements, and voluntary returns of artworks and cultural artifacts.
Urgent Matter’s tracker follows major crimes targeting cultural property, from museum heists and forgeries to activist vandalism globally.
New markets are opening as the art-fair economy adjusts to higher costs and slower top-end sales.
Facing tougher laws, rising costs, and waning support, climate activists are quietly ending the museum protests that once shocked the art world.