Matthew Barney has contributed a skateboard deck for an auction to benefit a DIY skate park in Detroit. Number 19 in his Drawing Restraint series, it features a graphite pad on the underside, turning the skateboard into a rolling drawing tool.

Are you an artist with a foot in activism, a community organizer, or a small business owner? Are you someone who questions the status quo? Are you interested in uncovering structures of power and exclusion? Are you the exception and the rule? This spring, London-based artists Karen Mirza and Brad Butler present a collection of […] Are you an artist with a foot in activism, a community organizer, or a small…

On the lam since vandalizing Picasso’s Woman in a Red Armchair at the Menil Collection in June, Uriel Landeros surrendered to officials at the US/Mexico border Tuesday. An artist, he explains his act: “I did this to turn heads.”

Inspired by a Sol LeWitt rubber stamp, John Baldessari started making stamps of his own, bearing imperative messages. One—“Learn to dream”—now appears on 12 LA buses, in English and Spanish, as part of the Arts Matter campaign.

In a traditional museum, art is presented in the context of singular art history, says the Van Abbemuseum’s Steven ten Thije. But “if you start to see works themselves as contexts, then each work starts to be not just a story of itself, but to offer a perspective on the world—a different background against which things can be ordered.” Here he discusses the museum’s evolving thinking on curation.

To commemorate the year that was, we invited artists and designers to take part in an open-ended exercise: share with us 2012’s best “things”—artworks, books, albums, political moments, memories, spectacles, failures, etc. The first to take us up on the offer was photographer Alec Soth, who weighs in with the “10 things that gave me pleasure in 2012.”

“[I]f we spend less time dismissing non-experts and more time listening, we can learn something,” writes MoMA’s Desi Gonzalez. “I dream of a world of grassroots art interpretations, that values the perceptions of a novice as much as a Ph.D.”

In 2012, Walker executive director Olga Viso traveled across the state and around the world, from Minneapolis, New York, and Kassel to Gwangju and Beijing. Reflecting here, she shares her highlights from the year that was. The Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s final performance at the New York Armory, with set designs by Daniel Arsham, launched my […] In 2012, Walker executive director Olga Viso traveled…