In Memoriam

Remembering Pedro Friedeberg, Thaddeus Mosley, and Liliana Angulo Cortés

This week, we honor the inventor of the Hand Chair, a beloved Pittsburgh sculptor, and the director of the Museo Nacional de Colombia.

Art Review

Mid-Century Modernism Goes Rogue in “Chair-ish”

Artists Alex Chitty and Norman Teague give each other the permission needed to do something as heretical as saw an Eames chair into pieces.

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Announcement

Merging Craft Practices and New Media at the Museum of Craft and Design

Through themes of encoding, looping, and sampling, “Video Craft” brings the craft roots of emerging film technologies into focus. Now on view in San Francisco.

Daily Newsletter

Art Basel Qatar's Complicity

Art Basel's complicity in Qatar's persecution of queer people, the US and Israel bomb another Iranian historic palace, protest against the Venice Biennale, Beer With a Painter, and more.

New York Newsletter

The Whitney Biennial Is Here

Our first impressions, Chinatown storefront art, and things to do on a glorious spring day.

Book Review

Please, No More Disaffected White Girls

Anika Jade Levy’s “Flat Earth” is navel-gazing, ouroboric, masturbatory — a Dimes Square novel for Dimes Square people.

News

US and Israel Strikes Damage 17th-Century Palace in Isfahan

The Safavid-era Chehel Sotoun palace, known for its richly detailed frescoes, is among several landmarks impacted in the recent attacks.

News

Over 6,000 Sign Letter Opposing Russia’s Venice Biennale Pavilion

The petition, signed by cultural figures such as Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova, comes as the European Union threatens to pull Biennale funding over Russia's inclusion.

Opinion

Don't Believe What Art Basel Qatar Is Trying to Sell You

I fled Qatar to live freely as a queer person. A country that criminalizes LGBTQ+ existence should not be celebrated as a global hub of creative freedom.

Guide

7 Art Books for Your March Reading List

Read up on the hidden history of occult influences on modernism, French sign painters, the Finnish painter who bucked convention, incarcerated artists, and more.

News

Epstein and Trump Portrayed as Titanic Lovers in New Anonymous Artwork

The sculpture on the National Mall comes in the wake of the release of previously withheld documents detailing abuse allegations against Trump.

Community

Beer With a Painter: Hilary Harkness

If paint doesn't feel good coming off the brush, you pretty much have nothing,” said the artist, whose canvases depict humanity in all its rollicking riot and contradiction.