ArtNet: The 10 Best Stories on Art and Politics of 2016

ArtNet: The 10 Best Stories on Art and Politics of 2016 Read On

Are artists increasingly irrelevant in the age of Trump? Or are they needed more than ever? What does the art world have to do as it faces the global growth of nationalism and votes like Brexit? Did Ai Weiwei nit a new low by "crassly recreating a photo of the infamous drowned Syrian boy toddler? What did the 'Panama papers' teach us about "art's role in the lives of the tax-dodging superrich? ArtNet weighs in with their best thinking.