News
Artist Sells $25 Trash Souvenirs Found Outside Taylor Swift's Wedding
“It wasn't as dirty as I was expecting,” said Justin Gignac, who suited up to collect garbage with a claw grabber outside Madison Square Garden.
Latest
Art Review
Gertrude Abercrombie’s Band of Midwest Magic Realists
A pair of exhibitions at the Milwaukee Art Museum underscores the support, comradeship, and spirit of rebellion shared by the Surrealist and her friends.
Book Review
The Hidden History of Stock Photography
In her first book, scholar Simona Supekar mines the history of stock imagery as a vessel for racism and sexism and considers its role in the age of AI.
News
Whitney Museum Screens Taken Over With Gaza Protest Messages
Jonathan Allen’s guerrilla installations superimposed anti-genocide messages onto advertising displays outside the museum.
Daily Newsletter
Looking Up at Constable’s Sky
The British painter’s four seasons, the New Museum’s new director, and which Surrealist painter influenced a soccer jersey?
News
Valerie Brathwaite, Abstract Sculptor of the Natural World, Dies at 87
The artist found inspiration in the geography, vegetation, and wildlife of her home countries of Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela.
News
Massimiliano Gioni Named Director of New Museum
The institution’s former artistic director succeeds Lisa Phillips, who announced her retirement last fall.
Guide
8 Art Books to Reframe America’s 250th
The real story of the Declaration of Independence, the rise and fall of monuments, contemporary Indigenous artists, drag queens on Fire Island, and other titles for the year’s reading list.
Art Review
John Giorno Put Poetry on the Line
In iconic works like his "Dial-a-Poem," the artist offered a moment of sustained attention, a sense of relation, a novel perspective.
Book Review
John Constable’s Four Seasons
Art historian Susan Owens's exquisitely illustrated new book narrates the painter’s story through his relationship to weather, place, and time.
News
Texas Covers Up Beloved "Black Artists Matter" Mural in Austin
Local advocates warn that Republican Governor Greg Abbott’s order is part of a broader attempt to erase Black and LGBTQ+ history.
News
Belgium’s Magritte-Inspired Soccer Jersey Mirrors a Surreal World Cup
The pink-and-blue shirts feature one of the painter's lesser-known motifs, along with the phrase “This is not a jersey" in an homage to the artist.