Features
Finding God at the Brooklyn Museum
The Ancient Egyptian “Book of the Dead” turned me into a believer. We talked to the curators and conservators to learn how it came to be.
Community
Art Movements: New Curator at the Frick
Aaron Wile will be a senior curator at the institution. Plus, the Venice Biennale announces its full list, and the Bezoses are chairing the Met Gala (yay!).
Community
Required Reading
This week: how to make art with a full-time job, portraits of Black marronage, artists vs. algorithms, US men’s hockey team acts up (again), snow sculptures in NYC, and more.
Features
David Driskell’s Gifts to Black Art
The artist and scholar spent decades championing Black artists through collecting, creating, and providing financial support through the Driskell Prize.
News
High Museum COO Resigns After $600K Disappeared
An internal investigation traced “financial irregularities” back to Brady Lum, who had served as the Atlanta art museum’s chief operating officer since 2019.
Community
A View From the Easel
“It’s a place to disappear and get lost in the process of doing.”
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Announcement
Raw Material: The Art and Life of Susan Kleckner
This exhibition at Haverford College’s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery is the first comprehensive retrospective of the pioneering feminist, filmmaker, photographer, and performance artist.
Daily Newsletter
Koyo Kouoh’s Final Show
The Louvre gets a new director, the world’s largest sock monkey, and remembering artists we lost this week.
Film Review
Diaries of a Chairwoman
Juliette Lewis turns into a chair in a film that critiques mass culture’s conflation of femininity with consumerism and envy.
In Memoriam
Remembering Dóra Maurer, Isaiah Zagar, and Peter Stämpfli
This week, we honor a Hungarian avant-garde artist, a Philadelphia mosaicist, a Swiss pop artist, and others.
News
Venice Biennale Names 111 Artists for International Exhibition
“In Minor Keys” opens on May 9, a year after beloved curator Koyo Kouoh’s passing.
News
Artist Sets Guinness World Record for Largest Sock Monkey
Emilia Evans-Munton, a Glasgow School of Art graduate, said she made the giant sculpture as an “ode to the toys that are left behind.”
News
New Leader Picked for Crisis-Stricken Louvre Museum
Christophe Leribault, who heads the Palace of Versailles, succeeds Laurence des Cars within one day of her resignation.