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Whitney Biennial Artists Revealed

Also: The rise of anti-monarchical art, a First Amendment rally in New York City, a Brutalist icon in Dallas, and more.

News

Artists Issue Urgent Call to Defend First Amendment Rights

In New York City's Federal Hall, where the Bill of Rights was introduced, cultural leaders decried attacks on free expression, from book bans to censorship.

Opinion

The Sinister Plan to Demolish a Brutalist Icon in Dallas

Behind the spectacle of City Hall’s potential demolition is the transfer of funding away from the public and into a few extraordinarily wealthy hands.

News

Mamdani Pulls a Marina Abramović at a Queens Museum

New York’s mayor-elect staged a 12-hour appearance at the Museum of the Moving Image, meeting with around 140 visitors for brief one-on-one meetings.

Books Newsletter

All I Want for Christmas Is More Art Books

But who has the shelf space?

News

These Are the Artists in the 2026 Whitney Biennial

Three Palestinian visual artists, plus one born in Baghdad, are listed among the 56 participants.

News

Guggenheim Museum Launches New $50,000 Art Prize

Artist Catherine Telford Keogh is the inaugural winner of the Jack Galef Visual Arts Award.

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Announcement

New York Academy of Art: Bringing Traditional Skills to Contemporary Discourse

Tracing its roots to Andy Warhol, the Academy merges rigorous figurative training with critical discourse in the heart of New York City.

Opinion

A Visual History of No Kings

From the destruction of King George III's statue to today's No Kings movement, resistance to tyranny has always demanded aesthetic subversion.

Daily Newsletter

Life According to Sylvia Snowden and Joan Semmel

Also: a graffiti artist's protest against ICE deportations, TIME Magazine's miserable "Person of the Year" cover, and the enduring relevance of W. E. B. Du Bois.

Weekly Newsletter

If I Had a Picasso

The best art and books of 2025, cuts at the New School, and the return of a beloved Hyperallergic column.

News

TIME’s “Person of the Year” Swaps Construction Workers for Tech Billionaires

Nothing says "person of the year" like replacing Depression-era workers with the billionaires making our skills obsolete.