Obituary
Painter David Hockney, Who Made the Everyday Otherworldly, Dies at 88
His work over a prolific six decades ranged from psychologically precise portraits to luminous depictions of California pool sides.
Community
A View From the Easel
“Without the fabric there would be no painting.”
Feature
Sarah Schulman’s Four Decades of Lesbian Fiction
“Nothing stops me except the publishing industry,” quipped the novelist and AIDS historian, who cut her teeth as an East Village journalist writing for queer and feminist papers.
Community
Art Movements: Sam Gilliam Foundation Names Its First Director
Dr. Steven Nelson to helm the nonprofit, Aperture HQ's fall opening date, and, uh, the New Museum partners with Penske Media?
Community
Required Reading
This week: Jean Shin’s memorial to the trees of Greenwood Cemetery, the 250th anniversary nobody wants, Pride bar-hopping, and more.
News
Charleston’s African American Museum Furloughs All Staff
The institution cited “a shift in the political and funding environment” and said staggered furloughs would help avoid layoffs.
Art Review
A Better World at the Obama Center
The new campus is an expression of the former US president's civic ideals, and a reminder of how distant they now seem.
Opinion
They Want to Control Our Imagination
A professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago asked her students to imagine a way to help someone they might encounter. Leadership found that beyond the pale.
News
Painting “Intentionally” Defaced at Museum of African American Culture
The Houston institution said Clarence Heyward's self-portrait "Man in the Garden" (2025) was deliberately vandalized by visitors.
News
Phoenix Art Museum Receives Largest Gift of Native American Works
A hundred works by Indigenous artists tracing creative resilience over the course of a century will go on view at the institution in August.
Interview
Beer With a Painter: Samia Halaby
At her longtime studio in Tribeca, the Palestinian-American painter discussed her experimentation with color and how she “accidentally stepped into abstraction.”
News
Largest-Ever Arthur Jafa Survey Coming to New Museum
The two-floor show will premiere new works alongside the artist’s iconic pieces, such as "Love is the Message, The Message is Death."
In Memoriam
Remembering Willie Valentine, Marjane Satrapi, and John Claridge
This week, we honor a champion of Southeast Asian art, the giant behind “Persepolis,” and a photographer dedicated to London’s East End.