Art
After More Than 20 Years, Kate Hargrave Lets Her Paintings Leave the Nest
The artist's new exhibition, her first since graduating from art school in the early aughts, reveals her deep love of art history.
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Art
Re-evaluating the Guerrilla Girls for Today’s Politics
A mini-retrospective of the feminist collective raises the question: What can be learned from this work that applies to today, and is this an effective method of making change?
Music
Swedish Punk Band Viagra Boys’s Absurdist Send-Up of the Art World
A video for the new single “Man Made of Meat” riffs on the readymade, satirizes zombie formalism, and parodies action painting.
News
Laid Off? Art Collector Bernard Arnault Prefers “Promoted Outwards”
The billionaire luxury conglomerate CEO defended Mark Zuckerberg's move to lay off Meta employees.
News
Documenta Adopts Widely Criticized Definition of Antisemitism
The embattled organization’s new code of conduct effectively stifles scrutiny of the Israeli state.
Art
The Biting Satire of Eleanor Antin's Photography
Antin deconstructs both the self and the image as fraught in her staged photographs, and the results are less a punchline than a biting satire.
News
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Is Turning 100
The Harlem institution is marking the occasion with a yearlong series of events including a special exhibition and a block party.
News
Why Is There an Ancient Rome Researcher on Musk’s DOGE Staff?
Luke Farritor, who used AI to decode a Greco-Roman scroll from Pompeii, is reportedly part of the team leading Musk’s chaotic takeover of government systems.
Art
Etel Adnan Captured the Light of Many Suns
An artist and poet who traversed multiple cultures, Adnan’s creations are alive with both multiplicity and instability.
Book Review
Relational Art in the Time of Tech Oligarchy
In a convulsing world with dwindling digital spaces for connection, can Relational Art offer lessons on building community and meaning?
Book Review
Scheming Dealers, Auction House Collusion, Pub Gossip, Oh My!
A new book spills the tea on the 20th-century London art scene.
News
Garage Sale Portrait Is Not a Van Gogh Original, Museum Says
But an art authentication group insists that the painting is an original by the Dutch master, stating that “even the museum is fallible.”