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Max Hollein
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- The Met
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Coverage
- Lonnie Bunch and the Smithsonian's Unfinished Sentence
- Christie's Hikes Fees. The Gwangju Biennale Loses China. Both Are Contractions.
- China Exits Gwangju. The Biennale Becomes News.
- George Lucas's Museum and the Narrative Art of Owning the Story
- Frieze Seoul Meets the Super El Niño Economy
- Kennedy Center Drops Shapiro. The Pattern Is Clear.
- John Galliano and the Met: What Institutions Owe Forgiveness
- John Galliano and the Met: Who Cancellation Protects
- Ken Griffin's da Vinci Loan and the Art of Soft Power
- Ken Griffin's da Vinci Loan Is Soft Power for the Met
- Kusama's Infinity Had a Price Tag After All
- Gwangju Biennale's Taiwan Fight Shows Repatriation Is a Design Problem
- Who Owns the Past: Guggenheim vs. Britain vs. Ghana
- Stolen Art, Recoveries, and Frieze's Seoul Pivot
- Museums Are Hiring. Culture Is Adrift.
- Museums Are Broke. Art Keeps Selling.
- The Uffizi's $58M Fix Can't Stop Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses
- Banksy's $200,000 UK Bill Shows Who Owns Photographic Memory
- Homer Goes Viral (2,300 Years Late)
- The Met's 2,300-Year-Old Odyssey Fragment Breaks the Canon
- Museums Can't Afford Taste Anymore
- Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Got a Director. Eric Carle Workers Want a Union.
- Gold, Statues, and the Aesthetics of Power
- AI Agents Gone Rogue, and Who Cleans Up
- Institutions That Won't Pay Their Bills
- Gehry's Ghost: Architecture, Wealth, and the Long Game
- Betye Saar and the Museum Under Siege
- Celtic Gold, Museum Labor, and Who Owns the Past
- Jensen Huang's $75M Scenario for Art in San Francisco
- Science Gets a Vibe Check, Art Gets Defunded
- The Smithsonian Trial and the Museum Wars
- Empty Rooms: What Museums Leave Out Now
- Hollywood Consolidates While Rome Leaks
- Florentina Holzinger Makes Venice Faint. The Market Bids Anyway
- Zendaya's Iranian Earrings and the Antiquities Pipeline Museums Won't Trace
- Zendaya's Earrings and the Looting Loop
- The Met, Mexico, and the Price of a Lightsaber
- The Institution Stays Closed
- The Looted Object and the Leaky Museum
- MONA's Bangkok Cable Car and the Museum as Luxury Product
- Trillionaires, Antiquities, and Dirty Money's Museum Problem
- Havana Contemporary's Salon Model Means Business
- The Smithsonian as Battlefield, Museums as Mirrors
- The Smithsonian Is a Battlefield Now
- America250: The Brand Nobody Wants
- Looted Futures: The Met's $95M Problem
- Raphael's Vatican Loggia and the Sargent Hidden Beneath a Sargent
- The Studio as a Safe Space for Stupidity
- Pace, Pixels, and the Art of Managed Collapse
- Copyright, TikTok, and the Remix Economy's Debt
- Goodman Gallery Cut Its Roster to Fix Art's Retention Crisis
- David Hockney's Death Is Also a Market Event
- Björk, Jafa, and the Retrospective as Reboot
- Who Owns the Pavilion? Venice, Somalia, Museums
- The Name Is the Asset: AI Art Valuation Paradox
- Venice, Dataland, and the Museum of Vibes
- Melissa Chiu, Guggenheim, and the Museum as Startup
- Pompeii's Incense and the New Museum Ask What Ruins Smell Like
- The New School Cuts 15%. Austerity Has an Aesthetic.
- Museums Are Broke and Charging for It
- MoMA's Frida Kahlo Show Wins the Authenticity Arms Race
- The 95-Year-Old, the Infinity Room, and the Museum's Bet on Permanence
- Gabrielle Goliath's Banned Gaza Show Finds a Venice Home Anyway
- Frozen Assets: When States Claim Art
- Tech-Funded Art and the Patron Problem
- Whitney Biennial and the Failure of Institutional Nerve
- Tech Money Builds Art Walls in Hong Kong
- Chip Lab to Art Gala: Who Controls the Infrastructure?
- Hachette Pulled an AI Novel. The Outsider Art Fair Has the Same Problem
- Sam Doyle's Price Peak: Outsider Art in the Age of Sora
- Pentagon Told Anthropic One Thing. Trump Said Another.
- Lost and Found in the Archive: Vivian Maier, Van Dyck, and the Market Value of Obscurity
- Lost and Found: The Art Market's Obsession With Things That Were Never Supposed to Survive