Guide

15 Shows to See in New York City This April

Margaret Curtis’s deconstruction of American myth, quotidian objects by Marsden Hartley, and Wendy Red Star’s bead-inspired installation are among our picks.

Features

An Artist Embraces the Metaphorical Cracks of Matzah

“ The fractures in these images reflect how disconnected a lot of Jewish people feel from each other right now,” Emily Drew Miller told Hyperallergic.

Guide

10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This April

David Alekhuogie’s defiant collage, Hannah Tishkoff’s visual poetry, an iconic Angeleno printmaking studio, portraits of Palestinian journalists, and more.

Community

Art Movements: Frieze Partners With ... the Whitney?

Also, the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts director retires, the Speed Museum's newest residents, and "peep" this art!

Community

Required Reading

This week: Calida Rawles paints Blackness and water, the artists who shaped Fire Island, translating literature during the Tehran blackout, why weather apps suck, and more.

Books

Nine Lessons on My Path From Engagement to Leadership

My career has been defined by a steady effort to collapse silos: between curatorial and educational work, between institutions and communities, between what museums have been and what they might yet become.

Obituaries

Melvin Edwards, Who Sculpted a New Vocabulary for Political Art, Dies at 88

His innovative abstractions evoked both the art historical canon and the haunting afterlives of Atlantic slavery.

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Announcement

Summer Marathons in Painting and Drawing at the New York Studio School

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Opportunities

Opportunities in April 2026

Residencies, fellowships, grants, and open calls from Banff Centre, the Vilcek Foundation, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.

Daily Newsletter

The Art World Is a Joke

April Fools’ round-ups, Aruna D’Souza on the abstract painter who’s everywhere this year, art books to read this spring, and more.

Guide

10 Art Books for Your Spring Reading List

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s first catalog in 25 years, Molly Crabapple chronicles the Jewish Bund, a photographer captures a Black Southern waterway, and more

News

Could Colorado Create the Country's First Artist Corporation?

A new bipartisan bill could help enshrine intellectual property rights and expand healthcare access for cultural workers.