Editorial Standards and Corrections Policy

Art in Context is committed to accurate, independent, transparent, and useful publishing. This policy explains how we research, verify, edit, update, correct, and distinguish our editorial content, including art-historical resources and current Art News reporting.

Our Editorial Mission

Art in Context publishes researched information about art history, artists, artworks, artistic techniques, cultural heritage, and developments in the international art world. Our goal is to make art and art history understandable to a broad audience without sacrificing factual accuracy, historical context, or necessary nuance.

Our Art News coverage focuses on timely developments involving artists, museums, collections, exhibitions, cultural heritage, restitution, discoveries, institutions, the art market, legal disputes, public policy, and other events that materially affect the art world.

We aim to distinguish clearly between established fact, attributed statements, interpretation, analysis, allegations, disputed information, and matters that remain unresolved.

Art in Context is owned and operated by Faessler Media GmbH in Switzerland. Editorial responsibility remains with the Art in Context editorial team.

Accuracy and Verification

Accuracy takes priority over speed, search visibility, novelty, or a more dramatic version of a story.

Material factual claims should be verified using the strongest appropriate sources available. Depending on the subject, these may include museum and public-collection records, archives, universities, exhibition catalogues, artist foundations and estates, government records, court documents, official institutional statements, original publications, scholarly research, interviews, and established news organizations.

For artwork-specific information, we prefer the owning museum, collection, archive, catalogue raisonné, artist foundation, or another object-specific authoritative record when available.

For current news, we seek primary documentation wherever practical rather than relying only on summaries of another publication’s reporting.

When reliable sources disagree, we do not manufacture certainty. We either explain the disagreement, use the strongest directly supported account, or adopt a broader formulation when the precise point cannot be established confidently.

We do not knowingly publish fabricated facts, quotations, sources, artworks, dates, legal outcomes, affiliations, or credentials.

Original Reporting, Attribution, and Other Publications

When another publication first reports a development, Art in Context credits that reporting where relevant.

We do not reproduce another publisher’s reporting as if it were our own. Our news coverage should add independent value through primary-source verification, additional documentation, art-historical context, comparison of records, clarification of chronology, analysis, or other original reporting.

Direct quotations are attributed to the speaker and, where appropriate, to the publication, interview, court record, institutional statement, or source in which they appeared.

Links to primary and authoritative records may be included when they help readers verify or better understand important information.

Press releases and institutional announcements may be used as primary evidence for what an organization has announced, but they are not automatically treated as independent proof of disputed claims.

Authorship and Editorial Responsibility

Articles identify their authors wherever appropriate. Author pages provide information about the writer’s background, role, qualifications, experience, and areas of expertise.

The named author remains responsible for the article together with the Art in Context editorial team. Editorial review may involve fact-checking, source verification, structural editing, language editing, image and caption review, and technical quality control depending on the subject and level of factual risk.

More information about our writers and editors is available on the Art in Context Experts Team page.

Publication Dates and Updates

News articles display their original publication date and publication time.

When a story changes materially after publication, we may update the article and display an updated date and time. A substantial update may add newly available documents, responses, court developments, corrected information, institutional statements, or another development that materially improves the report.

We do not change dates merely to make an older article appear newly published.

The original publication date remains part of the article record even when a later modification date is shown.

Evergreen art-history articles may also be updated when new scholarship, museum records, attribution changes, conservation findings, or material corrections justify revision.

Corrections Policy

We correct factual errors as soon as reasonably possible after they are identified and verified.

Corrections may concern names, dates, titles, quotations, artwork attribution, chronology, dimensions, media, collection information, institutional roles, legal status, statistics, captions, image credits, or any other factual statement that could materially mislead a reader.

Minor spelling, punctuation, grammar, formatting, or typographical corrections that do not change the meaning of an article may be made without a separate correction notice.

When a correction materially changes an important factual statement or a reader’s understanding of a news story, we may add a visible correction note explaining the original error and the correction.

When important new information develops after publication but the earlier reporting was accurate at the time, we normally identify the change as an update rather than a correction.

We do not remove accurate information merely because a person or organization dislikes the coverage. We will, however, review credible evidence that published information is inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, improperly attributed, or materially outdated.

How to Request a Correction

Readers, artists, museums, institutions, researchers, legal representatives, and other knowledgeable parties may submit correction requests through our Contact page or by email to [email protected].

A useful correction request should identify the article URL, the specific statement in question, the proposed correction or clarification, and reliable supporting documentation where available.

Correction requests are assessed on their evidence and editorial merits. A request does not automatically result in a change.

Developing Stories

News can change after an article is published. Information that was accurate at the time of publication may later be superseded by new evidence, statements, rulings, discoveries, or institutional decisions.

For developing stories, we distinguish what is known at publication time from what remains unknown.

When an article states that no announcement, decision, buyer, valuation, legal ruling, institutional response, or other development has been made public, that wording refers to the public record available at the time of reporting.

Material later developments may be added to the existing article when that provides the clearest and most useful record for readers.

Allegations, Disputes, and Legal Proceedings

Art in Context distinguishes allegations from established findings.

When reporting accusations of misconduct, criminal allegations, civil claims, disputed ownership, authenticity disputes, restitution claims, or other contested matters, we identify their status accurately and avoid language that implies a finding that has not been made.

Where relevant and reasonably available, we include or summarize the response of the person or organization concerned.

A lawsuit, complaint, investigation, charge, procedural ruling, dismissal motion, settlement, judgment, and criminal conviction are not interchangeable. We describe the procedural status as precisely as available evidence permits.

A court’s decision allowing a case to proceed does not by itself establish the truth of the underlying allegations, just as dismissal on procedural grounds does not necessarily establish that the underlying events did not occur.

We also distinguish civil proceedings from criminal proceedings.

Anonymous Sources

Art in Context prefers information that can be attributed on the record.

Anonymous sourcing should be exceptional and used only when the information is materially important, the source is in a position to know it, and there is a legitimate reason why identification could create a meaningful risk or prevent the information from being provided.

Where anonymous sourcing is necessary, the editorial team should know the source’s identity and independently assess the source’s credibility.

We do not grant anonymity merely to allow a source to make unsupported personal attacks or evade accountability for promotional claims.

Interpretation and Opinion

Art writing often includes interpretation. We distinguish an observable feature of an artwork from a documented statement of artistic intention and from a later interpretation by critics, scholars, curators, or our writers.

We do not present a visual resemblance as proof of direct influence, an image as proof of an artist’s personal belief, or later interpretation as if it were the artist’s documented intention.

Where an article contains substantial opinion, commentary, or interpretation rather than straightforward reporting, the nature of that material should be clear from the context or labeling.

Art-Historical Standards

Art-historical claims are assessed according to the type of evidence available.

We distinguish movements from periods and styles, self-identified members from later scholarly classifications, original works from editions or copies, commissions from later purchases, documented influence from resemblance, and established attribution from disputed or historical attribution.

When several versions, editions, states, casts, impressions, panels, or similarly titled artworks exist, we seek to verify that factual metadata refers to the exact object being discussed.

Dates, dimensions, materials, titles, collections, and accession information are checked against object-specific records whenever these details are material to the article.

Images, Captions, and Credits

Images are selected for editorial relevance and should not be presented in a way that materially misrepresents the article or the depicted subject.

We aim to identify artworks, artists, photographers, institutions, dates, and licensing or credit information accurately where applicable.

Image captions are fact-checked separately from the surrounding prose when they contain factual artwork or attribution information.

Art in Context uses images from public institutions, museums, archives, photographers, artists, public-domain sources, Creative Commons repositories, licensed services, and other permitted sources.

Copyright and licensing questions are reviewed according to the information available from the relevant source or rights holder. Image use does not imply that Art in Context owns the underlying artwork or photograph.

Artificial Intelligence and Editorial Tools

Art in Context may use AI-assisted and other digital tools as part of research organization, drafting support, translation, editing, data processing, structured-data preparation, or quality-control workflows.

AI output is not treated as an authoritative source.

Material factual claims must be supported by appropriate external evidence rather than by an AI system’s assertion alone. AI-generated citations, quotations, dates, names, or factual claims must not be published without verification.

AI-assisted tools do not replace editorial accountability. The named author and Art in Context editorial team remain responsible for the published article.

We do not knowingly use AI to fabricate interviews, eyewitness accounts, quotations, sources, artworks, or events.

Conflicts of Interest

Writers and editors should avoid assignments in which a significant undisclosed personal, financial, professional, or commercial relationship could reasonably compromise editorial independence.

When a relevant conflict cannot reasonably be avoided, it should be disclosed where necessary for readers to evaluate the coverage.

Receiving press materials, review access, invitations, or advance information does not itself guarantee favorable coverage.

Plagiarism and Content Integrity

Art in Context does not permit plagiarism.

Facts may be reported by many publications, but another writer’s distinctive wording, analysis, structure, or original reporting must not be reproduced without appropriate quotation, attribution, and legal basis.

Quotations are kept proportionate to their editorial purpose.

Our articles should provide independent research, synthesis, explanation, or analysis rather than merely rephrasing another publisher’s work.

Unpublishing and Removal Requests

Removing an accurately published article is exceptional.

Requests to delete an article, name, image, or factual record are considered individually. Relevant factors may include factual accuracy, legal obligations, privacy and safety, legitimate rights claims, the public interest, the historical record, and whether a correction or update would address the issue more appropriately than deletion.

We do not guarantee removal merely because information later becomes inconvenient, embarrassing, commercially undesirable, or unfavorable to the subject.

Where a genuine legal, safety, privacy, or rights issue requires removal or restriction, we take appropriate action.

Editorial Independence

Art in Context’s editorial judgments are made independently of the subjects we cover.

Artists, museums, galleries, auction houses, government agencies, institutions, collectors, sponsors, and public-relations representatives may provide information, statements, images, or access, but they do not determine our independent conclusions.

When a subject is given an opportunity to comment, providing that opportunity does not imply a right to approve the article before publication.

Transparency About Art in Context

Art in Context is owned and operated by:

Faessler Media GmbH
Langruetistrasse 115
8635 Dürnten
Switzerland

Information about our publication and editorial team is available on our About Art in Context and Art in Context Experts Team pages.

General inquiries and correction requests can be submitted through our Contact page or sent to [email protected].

Press inquiries may be sent to [email protected].

Policy Updates

This policy may be updated as our editorial practices, technology, publishing formats, or applicable standards evolve.

Material changes to this policy will be reflected by the “Last updated” date shown on this page.

Last updated: August 25, 2026