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Art Reads for Banned Books Week
J. M. W. Turner’s role in the slave trade, zines and riso prints from the New York Art Book Fair, and books we’re reading right now.
News
Activist groups gathered for an action outside the museum today, where Black is still a board member despite intensifying scrutiny into his connections to Jeffrey Epstein.
Book Review
Artists, poets, and scholars mull over words of their choosing in this book, offering new definitions of phrases from which Blackness proliferates: “world,” “water,” “care.”
New York Newsletter
Strikes averted at four NYC museums, the devastating loss of Francis Lee Rogers, the city doubles artist grants, and The Met’s breathtaking Krasner-Pollock show.
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If you’re looking for bias or reparations, these volatile contents are all on the surface, quietly and neatly presented.
Her new paintings remind us that the world is a room we share with strangers, most of whom are looking elsewhere.
Residencies, fellowships, grants, and open calls from ArtFields, The Image Centre, Millay Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.
Her MoMA PS1 exhibition raises the question: What exactly does formal restraint accomplish in an age of violent excess?
His eclectic references and intuitive grasp of memes and virality set him apart as an artist taking assemblage and collage to new heights.
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Pocket Review
The former percussionist for Sun Ra's band has turned to art in a self-directed inquiry into the visual culture of West and Central Africa.
News
The show will feature 36 artists and collectives representing 34 nations, making it the most internationally focused edition to date.
Feature
Forty-six entities displayed zines, academic books, textiles, and artwork — some even made in real time — at the third edition of The Latinx Project’s La Feria.
News
News that the show was acquired by Informa in 2025 comes after the show’s controversial debut in the landmark Breuer building.
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Announcement
The Ogunquit Museum of American Art and Bates College Museum of Art chronicle the life and work of under-recognized modern artist Carl Sprinchorn.
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From activist art and trans aesthetics to lowriders, global skateboarding culture, and Vilém Flusser’s prescient vision of the screen age.
Daily Newsletter
Lucy Ives reviews The Met’s Krasner-Pollock show, Editor-in-Chief Hakim Bishara interviews outgoing Yaddo President Elaina Richardson, and Aruna D’Souza profiles artist Rana Begum.
Art Review
If you’re looking for bias or reparations, these volatile contents are all on the surface, quietly and neatly presented.
News
"Algorithms lack the spark of the human, whereas ‘authentic culture and art preserve this spark,’" hesaid in a recent speech.
Book Review
“Turner and the Slave Trade” recasts Romanticism’s relationship to nature and landscape painting as a vehicle for colonial propaganda.
Interview
After stabilizing, modernizing, and diversifying the century-old artist retreat, Richardson says she's ready for a new chapter.