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The Green Flood: Private Equity Infultrates the Arts

The arts have no natural resistance to the current outbreak of private equity. Is this a case of big money taking over or will collections preservation…

Feb 17 • Opus Cultura

The 2025 Cultural Ledger

Biggest Art Lawsuits, Insurance Claims, and Controversies of 2025

Jan 15 • Opus Cultura

Infinite Reflectioning

A Mirror Staring at a Mirror

Dec 21, 2025 • Opus Cultura

Race to [Get to] the Bottom [of This]

Of course, I would write about the cost of contract labor.

Dec 7, 2024 • Opus Cultura

The Yuck Threshold

I want to draw your attention to an interesting conversation: “The Future of Public Art Institutions: Ensuring Financial Survival” put on by Talking…

Jul 5, 2024 • Opus Cultura

Recent posts

Everything Touches a Truck

Hauser & Wirth’s white paper (which cites something I previously wrote) exploring the plausibility of sea freight is courageous but ultimately shows why…

Dec 16, 2023 • Opus Cultura

The "Art" in "Artificial Intelligence"

Artificial Intelligence now curates shows, and people lose their minds.

Sep 16, 2023 • Opus Cultura

British Museum Deaccessions!

Has any museum had a worse time than the British Museum over the last few years?

Sep 9, 2023 • Opus Cultura

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