Interview
Alfredo Jaar Is Still Trying to Change the World
Four decades after his Times Square artwork challenged the definition of America, the Chilean architect calls himself “a pessimist with my intellect and an optimist with my will.”
Trump Administration
The president wants to replace José de Rivera's “Infinity” (1967) outside the National Museum of American History with a statue of George Washington.
Member Event
Join us on September 30 for an evening of studio visits and conversations with the NYC-based artists selected for the International Studio & Curatorial Program's Ground Floor Residency.
Art Review
A long-awaited Whistler retrospective at Tate Britain makes the case that every brushstroke, color, and omission serves the pursuit of harmony.
Shahzia Sikander, Wafaa Bilal, Rina Banerjee, and others share stories from the day of the attack and the vicious campaign of Islamophobia, racism, and surveillance in its wake.
Tony Cokes’s riffs on the video essay, a Grandma Moses retrospective, and Abbas Akhavan’s US museum debut are among the shows to look forward to this season.
The beloved author’s new novel tells a story of familial loss and reconnection, beginning with a chance encounter at The Met. But why does it seem to imply that grief and art are at odds?
Carmen Lomas Garza’s tender scenes of Chicanx community, Huguette Caland’s life in lines, Indigenous artists on fire and stewardship, photography of trans mutual aid, and more.
Residencies, fellowships, grants, and open calls from the Gulf Coast Journal, the Harry Ransom Center, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Vermont Studio Center, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.
I had assumed that loving an artist meant disappearing a little, and I had assumed that Lee Krasner had been forced to shrink, too.
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Feature
“We The Youth” (1987), painted on a wall co-owned by a real-estate developer, could become the city’s first outdoor mural on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places.
News
The inflatable cavatappi-shaped artwork, inspired by fashion house Bulgari’s serpent motif, will remain on view through New York Fashion Week.
Art Review
An exhibition explores the creativity and imagination of an artist whose way of seeing influences architects and artists.
News
Demonstrators at the British Museum decried billionaire Igor Tulchinsky’s financing of a community center in an illegal Israeli settlement in the Occupied West Bank.
Feature
A wave of museum thefts is exposing the vulnerabilities of institutions struggling to protect irreplaceable collections after years of underfunding.
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Announcement
“Hockney Reproduction(s)" explores the artist's innovation through reproductive media at the Manship Artists Residency. Opens September 11, 2026
Daily Newsletter
Artist Naeem Mohaiemen reflects on the day of the attacks, Channelle Chevelle Russel reviews Pope.L, and Brooklyn gets a craft supply library.
Weekly Newsletter
Artists reflect on 25 years since 9/11, Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch calls it quits, and our list of art books to read this fall.
Opinion
The struggle for immigrant rights and lives after 9/11 defined a generation of South Asian art and activism, even if it felt at times like we were trying to empty the ocean with a teaspoon.
News
Crochet hooks, thermal laminators, and button makers are among the 31 items now available to rent from the Brooklyn Public Library’s new lending program.
Guide
A photography show dedicated to NYC in the nighttime, an Indigenous-led arts festival honoring the Mississippi River, the first-ever Bienal de Yucatán, and more biennials and triennials to visit across the world.
News
Founding Chair Charles Traub said he believed the closure could have been avoided with “better coordination” and more strategies for “how we were going to deal with the future of AI.”