News
The Best Memes About the Liz Truss v. Lettuce Smackdown
A British tabloid slapped a wig on a head of lettuce and launched a contest to see who would last longer — Truss or the leafy vegetable. The lettuce prevailed.
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This Year’s Singapore Biennale Is Named Natasha
In taking a human name, the Singapore Biennale 2022 envisions itself as an intimate and collective journey with artists and audiences. On view through March 19, 2023.
News
Who’s Afraid of Rosa Bonheur's Sexual Identity?
In the wake of a new retrospective, some are criticizing the way in which the artist’s relationships with women are being discussed.
News
This Wacky AI Tool Will Finish Your Artwork for You
In the latest twist in the saga of AI image generation, Stable Diffusion’s “Diffuse the Rest” will turn any sketch into a finished work.
News
Wait, Does This Gowanus Mural Actually Say “GO ANUS”?
The mural became the butt of the joke when people began noticing that it would spell “GO ANUS” if a gate on the “W” were lifted.
News
Why Is a New Art Space in Manhattan Endorsing a Luxury Tower?
The Perelman Arts Center, named after billionaire Trump donor Ronald Perelman, is supporting a proposed building at the World Trade Center that critics say should be completely, not partly, affordable.
Opinion
The Van Gogh Is Fine; You Won't Be
The real target of Just Stop Oil's tomato soup action wasn’t Van Gogh's painting. It was our complacency.
Art
Georgia O’Keeffe, Reframed
A new exhibition at the Denver Art Museum renders the artist’s persona through newly identified photographs.
Art
How John Mitchell Shakes Up Portraiture
Mitchell is conscious of the many profound changes occurring in our society, and the urgent need to challenge old tropes.
Art
What if Van Gogh Could Paint Your Hometown?
Neither Picasso nor Hilma af Klint ever visited the Faroe Islands, but in a new exhibition, a museum uses AI to imagine how these artists would have painted their archipelago.
Art
A Difficult but Necessary Exhibition About Roadkill
Jeanne Dunning's works attest to widespread human disregard for animal life, and their finished form insists on both their deadness and how it happened.
Books
The Lasting Appeal of Wittgenstein's “Picture Theory”
If Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus radically redefines the scope of philosophy, it has proved irresistibly suggestive to literary theorists, poets, and artists.