This is a short article that aims to explain my arguments about artwashing. It focuses on art’s long-standing relationship to property, power and publicity.

Mephistopheles Flying, from Faust, lithograph, Eugène Delacroix, 1828
A brief art history of art, property and artwashing
Art has always been a form of property. During the Renaissance, art was the property of Royalty, the nobility and the church. … READ MORE