Artist Andrea Fraser’s 2016 in Museums, Money and Politics lifts the lid on US museum board members and political funding
The Met’s Self-Styled ‘Museum Mammy’, Kimberly Drew reveals her top five
In further news: Gillian Ayres (1930-2018); Met appoints Max Hollein as director; Cannes announces official selection
In further news: Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller protests Facebook; Hepworth Sculpture Prize shortlist announced
What Nan Goldin’s protesting of the Sacklers’s complicity in the US opioid crisis tells us about self-deification and patronage
The photographer’s activist group PAIN staged a ‘die-in’ to protest the Sackler family’s controversial pharmaceutical links
What to read this weekend: the symbolism of Korean landscape painting, the risks in curation’s activist mantle and politics as performance
In further news: We Are Not Surprised collective calls for boycott of Artforum, accuses it of 'empty politics'; Frida Escobedo named for 2018 Serpentine Pavilion
In further news: 2018 Taipei Biennial curated by Mali Wu and Francesco Manacorda; Pace opens second Hong Kong space; London’s Rokeby Gallery closes
The New York museum’s introduction of an admission charge shows us the problem with donor dependence and a hands-off government
Remembering the visionary ceramic artist whose aesthetic was that of a painter: ‘Everything she touched was edged with delight’
In other news: Betty Woodman has died aged 87; Christoph Büchel calls for border wall prototypes to be classed as land art
Our culture is terrified of sexually-awakened girls – controlling the way we look at Thérèse Dreaming would erase an interior life
In further news: MOCA Detroit suspends Jens Hoffmann after harassment allegations; Met refuses to remove ‘suggestive’ Balthus painting
The Met’s Luke Syson talks at Frieze Masters about the display of artworks
The art of only the second living designer to be the focus of a solo show at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Tate is criticised for asking staff to contribute to a boat for Nicholas Serota; The Met may charge out-of-towners for entry
Hilton Als wins the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism; the Association of Hysteric Curators protests Carl Andre show
Gustav Metzger has died aged 90; director of the Met resigns
Tracey Emin to fund scholarship for refugee students; the Met makes images of 375,000 public domain artworks freely available online
