Essential essays on art in our current era from one of the most important art critics writing today.

It is a peculiar moment for art, as it becomes both increasingly rarefied and associated with elite lifestyle culture, while simultaneously ubiquitous, with the

A leading activist museum director explains why museums are at the center of a political storm In an age of protest, cultural institutions have come under fire.

Why has identity become so central to judging art today? Why are some groups reluctant to defend free speech within culture? Has state support made artists poor

Art for everyone--the Federal Art Project's drive for middlebrow visual culture and identity