An award-winning investigation into the Hispanic Society of America that resulted in real change.

Robin spoke with curator Okwui Enwezor about his ambitious, devastating, revelatory survey at the ICP exploring how South African photography evolved from a document into a blunt instrument.

The controversy over the removal of a four-minute David Wojnarowicz video from the “Hide/Seek” exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery had observers wondering whether the culture wars were back—and whether anything could be done to stop them.

Why did eight jurors in Cincinnati trial decide that the Mapplethorpe photographs they considered "gross and lewd" are not obscene? "We felt that we had no choice, one juror told Robin. "We learned that art doesn't have to be pretty”

In the United States, the art made in Spain’s Latin American colonies used to be considered artistically minor and politically incorrect. Now, as intellectual trends coincide with demographic realities, it’s on the cutting edge of art history—and the wish lists of top museums.

As multiculturalism becomes a catchphrase of the '90s, art institutions are doing a lot of soul searching—about their audiences, their staffs, their exhibitions, and their perspective.

Robin interviewed Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Alisa LaGamma on her new exhibition exploring the ways Kongo artworks responded (sometimes subversively) to political and religious changes.

All over the world, artists are focusing more and more on environmental problems. The earth is their canvas and their philosophy is, “It’s dirty—let’s clean it up.”

Outdated images of Indians abound in museums and the art market. As the Native American community fights to transcend those stereotypes, museum policy, scholarship, and Indian art itself are changing radically.

Confronted with urgent demographic realities, art-museum directors are drawing on game theory, interactive technology, and a host of other new strategies to help people feel welcome and engaged.

LACMA’s plan to open a show featuring Robert Mapplethorpe’s gay sadomasochistic photographs two weeks before Election Day proves we’ve come a long way--maybe.

On its 150th birthday, the Yale School of Art maintains its standing and mystique as incubator and launchpad for innovators and thought leaders, honoring its legacy by continually evolving with the times.

Thomas Krens' vision of the Guggenheim's international empire is so ambitious that

even he doesn't expect all o f his projects to come to fruition. The museum's critics are skeptical, calling it misguided. Its supporters say it is merely misunderstood

Using outreach, performance, video, photography, and therapy, artists and museums are devising new ways to connect with veterans—and to bring their stories to a wider audience.

At the National Museum of the American Indian, the storytelling power of warrior chiefs.

Jimmie Durham, Native American identity, federal legislation, and a lot of controversy.

Cuba’s revolutionary Escuelas Nacionales de Arte are being threatened by the jungle.

The artist, activist, and educator on winning the 'genius grant,' bringing color to the Guggenheim, and changing the world one flower at a time.

Reporting on post-Franco cultural shifts in the Andalusian town Priego de Córdoba.

It took five years to pass a law that paves the way for a possible National Museum of the American Latino. Now the real debate begins.