In our age of constant updates and countless microtrends, will art always be behind the times?

Victoria Coates wrote David's Sling: A History of Democracy in Ten Works of Art and heads Project Esther.

How Islamic art history has been constrained by colonialism, war, and Western epistemologies; and how it calls for a fundamental rethinking of the field.

No museum or library can fulfill its stated mission in the absence of an active civil society.

What the writing of Dean Kissick, Jason Farago, and Sean Tatol says about our culture.

What will happen if art and marketing collapse into one?

Their work marks an intriguing shift from post-internet artist to content creator.

Provenance research—rather than connoisseurship—is our best tool for authentication.

Heatherwick structures read like desperate, failing attempts not to be boring, via some whiz-bang trick.

By targeting museums, climate activists are affirming both the urgency of the crisis and art's unique political power.