News

Influential Art Dealer Marian Goodman Dies at 97

The gallerist who put many European artists on the map in the US described her approach as finding a “humanistic concern” across different visual practices.

Books Newsletter

Your 2026 Art Book Reading List

Plus, a sexual history of the internet as told by sex workers and cyberfeminists.

Art Review

The African Diaspora Pictures Itself

A new exhibition rejects Western colonialism as a framework for understanding African aesthetic production.

News

This Handprint May Be the World's Oldest Rock Art

The painting predates 66,000-year-old rock art attributed to Neanderthals in Spain, which was previously believed to be the earliest example of its kind.

Art Review

Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot Meet as Equals

An exhibition sets out to rescue Morisot from the assumption that she was under Manet’s influence, but it's far from academic or revisionist.

Daily Newsletter

John Yau on Jeff Koons

Also: Sprinkler debacle at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Ellen Harvey’s lost places, and a galaxy of armor.

Weekly Newsletter

Art for Dignity

Saving the "Sistine Chapel of New Deal Art,” on being a Somali American artist in Minnesota, and how get into the Whitney Biennial.

News

Artists Call on Jewish Museum’s Support to Save New Deal-Era Murals

The Cohen Building, which houses works by Jewish artists Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, and Seymour Fogel, among others, is slated for sale by the Trump administration.

News

Studio Museum Evacuates Visitors After “Sprinkler Emergency”

Videos show water pouring from the ceiling near the gift shop in the institution’s brand-new building.

News

Philadelphia Sues Trump Administration Over Removal of Slavery Exhibits

The city is pursuing legal action after artwork and panels about the history of slavery were removed from a historic park.

Art Review

Ellen Harvey’s Elegy to Lost Places

Her painting series is a record of those grand and mundane places lost to time or other occurrences, whose presence we continue to mourn.

Features

A Millennia-Long Fascination With Armor

The Worcester Art Museum’s reopening of its armor galleries goes far beyond the romance with medieval Europe.