Opinion

Artworld Agony Aunt Charlotte Jansen answers a museum worker whose colleague is making them feel uncomfortable... because of how they smell

Artworld Agony Aunt Charlotte Jansen answers an artist wondering why their residency applications keep getting rejected – and how to nail the next one

Westminster Council wants licensed venues to favour seats over standing drinkers. But in Mayfair, where artworld relationships are built amid the din of crowded openings, what might be lost?

Public funding remains essential, but Britain’s leading museums are becoming increasingly reliant on patron schemes and private philanthropy to sustain exhibitions, collections and public access

Artworld Agony Aunt Charlotte Jansen answers an artist whose peer seems to be taking more than just inspiration from their work

Passion has long sustained the arts. But as low pay, precarious work and constant visibility collide, many art workers are asking whether the industry is built to exhaust the people who keep it running

Jessica Morgan arrives at Tate with an enviable reputation but an overflowing in-tray. From rebuilding public confidence to sharpening the museum's identity, these are the seven issues that could determine the success of her leadership

Charlotte Jansen advises an artworld insider struggling with a packed calendar of industry events

The Art Journal’s resident artworld Agony Aunt counsels a dinner guest who fears they are becoming the relationship police

A curator visited an artist's studio, expressed interest in their work, then vanished into the ether. How should the artist respond? Charlotte Jansen advises.

From a 1970s federal vision of civic art to Trump's America, a monumental Sol LeWitt in Manhattan's de facto immigration headquarters reveals how political change can rewrite an artwork's meaning. For Private Views, Gabriella Angeleti reports

A gallerist struggles to balance their collector’s aesthetic desires and guard their artist’s creative boundaries. Charlotte Jansen advises