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How Dayanita Singh Got Into Venice’s Archives
Also, why would a Romano-Egyptian take Homer into the afterlife?
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Fair Week in NYC!
Our guide to this week’s many fairs, what to see Upstate, and master printmakers and virtuosos.
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Archaeologists Discover Mummy Buried With Lines From Homer’s Iliad
Found in Egypt, the papyrus confirms that Homer was everywhere in the ancient Mediterranean.
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How Dayanita Singh Organized a Major Show in Venice
Unmoored from the anchors of deep pockets that often hinder imagination, the artist brought her images of archival documents to an unusual venue in the Italian city.
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Maia Chao Performs the Museum
She approaches the museum less as a neutral space than as a structure that quietly trains behavior and participation.
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Rare Early Basquiat Works Return to Brooklyn After HBCU Tour
“Our Friend, Jean,” an intimate collection from the precipice of the artist’s career explosion, is going on view at The Bishop Gallery starting this weekend.
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Hundreds Lambast Trump’s $7.5M Plan to Whitewash Eisenhower Building
"Don't even think about it," wrote one of over 2,000 concerned citizens, architects, and preservationists who warned of permanent damage to the structure.
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Beer With a Painter: Keith Mayerson
“I wanted to rip the mask off the signifier and just deal with the signified,” said the cartoonist-turned-painter who depicts a cosmology of American identity and activism.
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Maine College of Art & Design Presents the 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition
This exhibition showcases the culmination of the graduate candidates' work in the Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art program at MECA&D.
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WTF Is an “A-Corp”?
Hyperallergic wins a journalism award, hilarious new protest art against Trump, and should you start an Artist Corporation?
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Ridgewood’s Thriving Art Scene Steps Out of Bushwick’s Shadow
Ridgewood Open Studios drew hundreds to explore hidden alcoves in converted factories, basement spaces teeming with sculptures, and printmaking workshops in playgrounds.
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Somali Artists Take Issue With Nation's First-Ever Venice Biennale Pavilion
Cultural groups based in Somalia say they were not “meaningfully consulted” or “included” in the selection process for the exhibition.
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What Did Mozart’s Life Look Like?
An exhibition at the Morgan Library guides visitors through the life and career of the virtuoso via art and well-preserved ephemera.
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Dozens of Venice Biennale Artists Withdraw From Awards En Masse
Almost half of the artists in the international exhibition plus 22 national pavilions signed onto a statement of withdrawal in solidarity with the jury’s resignation.
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Historic Strike Disrupts Biennale as Thousands March in Venice
Dozens of national pavilions were partially or fully shut down in a strike for Palestine and for workers' rights.
Film Review
The Making of a Maintenance Artist
A new documentary traces Mierle Laderman Ukeles’s decades-long practice of spotlighting marginal, unpaid, and feminine labor.
Art Review
Mary Frank Creates Her Own Pantheon
Across sculptures and works on paper, her subjects are self-sustaining survivors who have not lost their capacity for tenderness.
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Nesting Seagull Becomes Unexpected Star of Venice Biennale
Organizers believe this is the first known instance of the bird nesting in such a prominent area of the exhibition grounds.
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15 Artists Share the Best Advice They Got From Their Mother
“She taught me how to play, how to laugh until my face burns, and how to dance in the kitchen to ‘Believe’ by Cher.”
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Getting Messy in the Archive at LA’s Art Book Fair
This year’s edition of the annual Printed Matter show unearths and remixes historical media, collapsing time and giving the past new relevance.
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A View From the Easel
“Rome has Michelangelo. We have the mountain.”
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"In Minor Keys" Hits All the Right Notes
The Venice Biennale’s international art exhibition is an unexpected symphony that asks us to ponder what may otherwise be overlooked.
Art Review
A Whole Lot of Nothing at the US Pavilion
After the last two Biennales searched the soul and history of this nation, how did we end up with this art from the land of the bland?
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Artists Pay Tribute to Koyo Kouoh in Poetry Caravan at Venice Biennale
The late curator's 1999 voyage with nine African poets inspired a moving procession led by María Magdalena Campos-Pons, writers, and musicians.