Opinion
Everything Is Not Fine in the Art World
Auction headlines offer a picture of health that hides a body in crisis.
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Features
The Most Jaw-Dropping Costumes of the Miss Universe Competition
The pageant took maximalism to new heights with its “everything but the kitchen sink” approach — or maybe there was a sink, and I missed it?
News
Protest Dance Outside Kennedy Center Targets Trump’s Attack on Culture
Dozens of workers have been terminated since the president took over the institution in February.
News
Philadelphia Art Museum Accuses Former Director of Theft
After Alexandra Suda accused the museum of wrongful termination, the institution said she misappropriated funds to increase her salary.
Art Review
KAWS Makes Art for the Tech Bro Era
His exhibition at SFMOMA could have examined the collapse of culture at the hands of commodity, but instead it nudges us toward the gift shop.
Art Review
Paying Homage to the Iconoclasts of Abstraction
An exhibition traces the radical advancements in painting by Al Held, Elizabeth Murray, Judy Pfaff, and Frank Stella.
News
Artist Alma Allen to Represent US at 2026 Venice Biennale
The artist alleged that two galleries dropped him from their rosters after he accepted the commission for the United States Pavilion.
Features
Artist Displays 2,000-Pound White House Made of Bullets
Al Farrow, who created the sculptural rendering in 2018, said the work took on a renewed significance under the Trump administration.
Art Review
We Are History’s Ghosts
An exhibition on the Lower East Side turns to collective memory and reenactment to cut through today’s political numbness.
Opinion
Art Market Reporters Are Getting It All Wrong
The worst of the current market decline is not the closure of major galleries. It is the dozens of younger galleries that have gone under in the past three and a half years.
Art Review
R. Crumb Wonders What It All Means
With his new comic book and exhibition, the artist explores his neurosis and mortality, but continues to question authority.
News
Former Met President Daniel Weiss to Lead Philadelphia Art Museum
The news comes on the heels of a lawsuit by former director Sasha Suda, who accused the institution of wrongful termination.