New York Newsletter

The Mayor Is Present

Marina Abramović is Zohran’s muse, the Whitney Biennial announces its exhibitors, the High Line replaces a giant pigeon with a huge Buddha, and more.

Community

Art Problems: Am I Too Old to Fit In?

If you think age is an obstacle to your art career, Paddy Johnson wants you to think again.

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Announcement

Texas A&M’s Visualization Graduate Programs Merge Art and Technology

Full funding is available for MFA students; MS students have scholarship and assistantship opportunities. The priority deadline for funding is January 15, 2026.

Art Review

The 2025 California Biennial Is Trapped in the Past

The show's displays of juvenilia from established artists say little about adolescents today and make its message inscrutable.

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Announcement

Training and Critiquing AI Through Art at WashU

Tiffany Calvert creates historically inspired still life paintings with an AI twist through a collaboration with engineers at Washington University in St. Louis.

Daily Newsletter

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.