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Embracing Friction in the Art World
A little Brooklyn exhibition space rejects optimization culture, the Pentagon bans press photographers, and guess who's headed to Perrotin?
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Brian Eno and 200+ Artists Urge British Museum to “Stop Erasing Palestine”
An open letter criticizes the institution for allegedly altering displays in its Middle East galleries after complaints from a pro-Israel group.
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Pete Hegseth Goes to War With Press Photographers
The Pentagon reportedly banned photography at briefings because the Secretary of War complained about “unflattering” photos.
Community
Art Movements: Look Who’s Headed to Perrotin Gallery
Alma Allen gets mega-gallery representation, Marina Abramović forays into balloon art, and more industry news.
Community
Required Reading
This week: women’s strike in Argentina, graffiti dialogues in Brooklyn, UK museums hold human remains from former colonies, mini Tudor paintings, mapping The Met, and more.
Feature
The Tiny Brooklyn Project Space Resisting the Gallery Machine
The non-commercial Greenpoint-based space Subtitled NYC models the tentative ways we make do in everyday life.
Community
A View From the Easel
“I use my entire body when painting, so I need to align it with my mind beforehand.”
Daily Newsletter
The Problem With Art Awards
Lucian Freud's paintings of "lostness," the real purpose of art awards, a new center for Native American art, and a lot of chair stuff.
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Laura Phipps Tapped to Lead Gochman Collection of Indigenous Art
The former Whitney curator will steer the NYC organization as it builds a permanent exhibition space in the Hudson River Valley.
Opinion
Awards Season and the Management of Cultural Power
What is being offered as recognition often operates as a way of organizing power, determining not only what is seen, but who is positioned to benefit from that visibility.
Art Review
Lucian Freud Mastered the Art of Lostness
As a National Portrait Gallery exhibition proves, he was especially good at depicting people painfully adrift from themselves.
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Text Messages Reveal How University of North Texas Leaders Axed an Anti-ICE Show
The school’s president and provost discussed removing artworks “of concern” before shuttering Victor Quiñonez’s exhibition, alarming free speech advocates.
Book Review
Please, No More Disaffected White Girls
Anika Jade Levy’s “Flat Earth” is navel-gazing, ouroboric, masturbatory — a Dimes Square novel for Dimes Square people.
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US and Israel Strikes Damage 17th-Century Palace in Isfahan
The Safavid-era Chehel Sotoun palace, known for its richly detailed frescoes, is among several landmarks impacted in the recent attacks.
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Over 6,000 Sign Letter Opposing Russia’s Venice Biennale Pavilion
The petition, signed by cultural figures such as Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova, comes as the European Union threatens to pull Biennale funding over Russia's inclusion.
Opinion
Don't Believe What Art Basel Qatar Is Trying to Sell You
I fled Qatar to live freely as a queer person. A country that criminalizes LGBTQ+ existence should not be celebrated as a global hub of creative freedom.
Guide
7 Art Books for Your March Reading List
Read up on the hidden history of occult influences on modernism, French sign painters, the Finnish painter who bucked convention, incarcerated artists, and more.
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Epstein and Trump Portrayed as Titanic Lovers in New Anonymous Artwork
The sculpture on the National Mall comes in the wake of the release of previously withheld documents detailing abuse allegations against Trump.
Community
Beer With a Painter: Hilary Harkness
If paint doesn't feel good coming off the brush, you pretty much have nothing,” said the artist, whose canvases depict humanity in all its rollicking riot and contradiction.
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Lebanon Gallerist Navigates Ongoing Israeli Airstrikes
Joumana Asseily said she temporarily closed her gallery in Beirut amid evacuation orders last week
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How a Texas Town Became an Art Project
With fewer than 700 residents, Kingsbury has become a hub for cultural governance and sovereignty, largely thanks to advocacy led by arts organization Habitable Spaces.
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Thaddeus Mosley, Beloved Self-Taught Sculptor, Dies at 99
The Pittsburgh artist remained largely overlooked until the last decade of his life.
Art Review
Amoako Boafo Takes His Studio on the Road
His new exhibition "I Bring Home With Me" combines portraits with seating areas and a model of his studio, inviting visitors to stay awhile and get comfortable.
Feature
Ali Eyal Gives Testimony
“I was nine years old, and I felt like I lost that childhood,” the Whitney Biennial artist told Hyperallergic, reflecting on the US’s war in Iraq, the disappearance of his father, and the art he makes to process.