Art and politics converge at Expo ‘92 in Seville.

In the Southwest, Crypto-Judaism is finally coming out of the closet.

Hans Namuth’s iconic photos of Pollock painting were deeply influential—and widely misinterpreted.

MoMA PS1's VW Dome 2 is the latest in a wave of museum outposts that are humble, nimble, and temporary, offering free admission—and much more than art.

Trevor Paglen’s small silicon disc on a space-bound satellite is a giant leap for public art--whether or not the aliens actually get it.

As the legal saga around Shepard Fairey's Obama portrait draws to a close, the country has moved on.

The trouble with placing time limits on war-loot claims.

Kirk Varnedoe talks about his MoMA reinstallation, where Picasso is less prominent and Duchamp is the “recurrent, haunting ghost.”

How Nelson Rockefeller, the original Rockefeller Republican, effected radical change by championing "Primitive" art.

Big changes in the Spanish art world are the result of government policies and social transformation in the post-Franco era.

"And Europe Will Be Stunned," Yael Bartana's celebrated film trilogy introducing Poland's Jewish Renaissance Movement, arrived at Petzel Gallery for its first New York showing—just as a new museum on Jewish history opens in Poland.

Tensions are rising between the restitution community and U.S. museums over the proper way to handle Holocaust art claims.

Why a Sol LeWitt piece was removed—and then restored—to a show in the National Museum of American Art.

Debating the ‘decency provision’ in federal funding.

Thomas Krens has plans for Azerbaijan.

The “doodoo” comment, from Rep. Robert Dornan about a work by John Miller, focused on just one of the controversies surrounding the beleaguered National Endowment for the Arts amidst conservative efforts to abolish the agency.

Artists who distributed their grant money to “undocumented taxpayers” sparked yet another controversy over government funding

Acting NEA head Anne-Imelda Radice was criticized by the left and the right as she tried to keep the agency afloat.

Globalism is still the catchword of the Guggenheim. But under new director Richard Armstrong, look for a shift in the way the museum pursues it.

The stodgy AAMD votes to reinvent itself with new initiatives on membership, deaccessioning, and other hot-button issues