How to Heal Your Creative Hangover
Long-lost Rembrandt goes on view, 3D scans of The Met's treasures, spring shows outside NYC, and how to cure the emotional crash after artistic bursts.
What are my favorite things about New York City? The art. The culture. The people. Oh, and getting the hell out of it. Yes, you can love something, and love leaving it, too — and our guide to 15 art excursions outside the city this spring gives you a pretty good reason.
Picture yourself in a room made entirely of fuzzy white fur. Or looking at an interdimensional light painting. Or gazing into lush, realist vistas of the Caribbean. Escape is a state of mind — but sometimes it's also a ride on the MetroNorth.
—Lisa Yin Zhang, associate editor
15 Art Excursions Outside NYC This Spring
Our editors rounded up must-see shows a mere train ride or drive from the city, including Rina Banerjee's diaphanous monuments at the Yale Center for British Art, Agnes Martin's serene paintings at Dia Beacon, Piero Manzoni's avant-garde environments at Magazzino, and more.
The Myth of Leonardo da Vinci and More: Dialogues Season 10
Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast is back for its tenth season, with episodes on Leonardo da Vinci, Michael Armitage, Amy Sillman, Marcel Duchamp, Todd Haynes, Pee-wee Herman, Walter Benjamin, Paul Klee, and more. Listen to Dialogues wherever you get your podcasts.
News
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art just released 100 high-quality 3D scans on its website for free, ranging from a Neolithic figurine to one of Claude Monet's haystacks, allowing viewers to get up-close and personal.
- A two-year study by Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum recently revealed that a work long thought to be painted by one of Rembrandt's pupils was actually made by the Dutch Master himself. Now, it's going on view for the first time in more than 60 years.
- You know that feeling of emptiness and exhaustion after a creative spurt? A new study has a name for this phenomenon — "creative hangover" — and some surprising findings.
Inside the Studio
Cordy Ryman’s Playful Remix of Minimalism
John Yau visits the studio of New York-based artist Cordy Ryman. The son of legendary painters, Ryman has developed his own visual language, transforming aspects of his parents’ work, and Minimalism, into something recognizably his. "Despite working within the parameters of his materials, his art is playful, inventive, and exuberant," Yau writes about Ryman.
Mitchell Johnson’s Personal Color at Galerie Mercier in Paris
Intimate paintings spanning nearly four decades of the artist’s career are on view at the gallery from February 28 to March 21.
In Memoriam
Remembering Iris Cantor, Ulysses Jenkins, and Rena Bransten
An arts patron, a video artist, and a San Francisco gallerist are among the community members we honor this week.
Member Comment
Michael Cammer on Blake Gopnik’s “Andy Warhol’s Defiant Hopes for Queer Art”:
I do have to take issue with "...Warhol’s innovation lay in using accepted styles, sometimes almost no style at all, to give a transparent window onto the novel content he wanted to show. Without the distractions of style, that is, Warhol could play a game of show-and-tell that was much more about showing than about how it chose to tell."
Warhol is style; some would say all style. Clean crisp spare lines. Assurance in their variations and fluid curves. Flat colors. The drawing “Unknown Male” (1950s) is both beautiful and highly stylized. His art is no less stylized than Tom of Finland, Sargent, or Schultz's Peanuts.
Hyundai Artlab - 2026 Artlab Editorial Fellowship
Two art writers at any career stage will each receive $10,000 and mentorship from one of this year’s Advisors, Mira Dayal and Gary Zhexi Zhang, and Artlab Editorial Editor Shannon Lee, as they produce three original articles. Open to applicants globally.
Deadline: March 9, 2026 | artlab.hyundai.com
See more in this month’s list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers!
From the Archive
See Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch” in Its Entirety, Thanks to AI Restoration
In 1715, the colossal painting was trimmed from all four sides, and the removed pieces were later lost. | Hakim Bishara
