News

Las Vegas Teen Killed in Arts District Shooting

Two others were injured at the October iteration of the monthly First Fridays art festival.

News

European Parliament Installs Gilded Nude Statue Mocking Trump

Danish artist Jens Galschiøt’s sculpture “The Orange Plague” depicts a naked Trump sitting on the shoulders of a man straining under his weight.

In Memoriam

Remembering Ingrid Wiener, Ian Berry, and Bob Masse

This week, we honor a Viennese Actionist, a journalist who captured Apartheid, and a poster designer for concerts and films.

News

LACMA's Alexander Calder Erewhon Smoothie Is What the Art World Deserves

The artist’s mobile outside the LA museum is the inspiration for a new drink à la Hailey Bieber, but in concrete gray with blobs of Calderesque colors.

Guide

10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This October

Roberta Gentry’s visions in orange and blue, Jordan Nassar’s tatreez puzzles, 12 Japanese women who shaped hard-edge abstraction, Susan Silton’s feminist conceptualism, and more.

Art Review

The Hellhounds of Genocide

In Ridikkuluz’s paintings, the irascible dog emerges as a symbol for Israel’s oppression of Palestinians.

Opinion

The Museum Director as Gardener

Institutions are human creations. Building and reshaping them requires imagination, experimentation and a tolerance for uncertainty.

Books

Dorothea Tanning Beyond Max Ernst’s Shadow

A new biography attempts to make the case for Tanning’s independence and artistic strength in her own right, but remains frustratingly tethered to her husband.

Film

Celebrating 60 Years of NYC's Millennium Film Workshop

Founded by a group of artists from the Film-Makers’ Cooperative, the avant-garde space remains a supportive home for a community of experimental and non-commercial filmmakers.

Daily Newsletter

Leon Black, You Can’t Hide

Protests against the Epstein associate and MoMA trustee intensify, Independent Art Fair sells out, and Black artists create their own glossary of liberation.

Books Newsletter

Art Reads for Banned Books Week

J. M. W. Turner’s role in the slave trade, zines and riso prints from the New York Art Book Fair, and books we’re reading right now.

News

MoMA Helping "Sanitize" Leon Black's Reputation, Protesters Say

Activist groups gathered for an action outside the museum today, where Black is still a board member despite intensifying scrutiny into his connections to Jeffrey Epstein.