In his first interview since announcing his resignation, Lee talked to A.i.A. via e-mail about the need for free expression in South Korea's young democracy and the future of the exhibition he…
Wayne Clough has announced his retirement as the head of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Clough, whose official job title is secretary, will step down next October after six years of s…
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
Censorship in China is frequently determined by who one is rather than what one does. “Ai Weiwei could do finger painting and still get into trouble,” quipped Rebecca Catching, curator of Shanghai’s O…
In light of January’s Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris, freedom of speech has become a front-of-mind issue once more. Yet, for all the grimness of ongoing external threats, artists in the land of the…