Feature
These Artists Want You to Vote for Mamdani
They're mural painters, sculptors, hat-makers, and gallery workers — and they’d like to keep living in New York City.
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Art Review
Julio César Morales Looks at Life on the Edge-Lands
In his exploration of the US/Mexico border, the artist asks: In today’s social climate, who has the privilege of having a future and who does not?
Feature
A Brief Art History of Grief
Scholar Roger Luckhurt’s richly illustrated book chronicles the ways we memorialize the dead across the world, tracing burial practices from Ancient Greece to the present day.
Opinion
Mount Rushmore Is Not My Monument
For a century, our connection to the Black Hills has been disrupted by this eyesore and those who flock to a place that we see as our relative, our grandfather and grandmother.
News
Maurizio Cattelan’s Gold Toilet Can Soon Be Yours
“America” (2016) will lead Sotheby's “The Now and Contemporary” evening sale on November 18.
Art Review
The Darkness of Greuze’s Doe-Eyed Children
Where an exhibition’s focus on childhood becomes outright problematic is the show’s bizarre conclusion, which considers spoiled innocence.
Books
100 Assignments From Nayland Blake
While these assignments will not turn someone else into me, they will provide the practitioner with a path to the deviations within themselves.
News
Alison Knowles, the First Woman of Fluxus, Dies at 92
“People don’t touch art,” she once said. “That’s one of the problems.”
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Artists Call to Boycott Maxxi Museum Over Alleged Israel Ties
Tania Bruguera, Phil Collins, and others said they withdrew their work, citing the institution’s “stance on the ongoing genocide in Gaza.”
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Jackie Ferrara Lived and Died on Her Own Terms
The sculptor of graceful structures and architectural environments, who died voluntarily last week at age 95, sought to contain life’s chaos in geometric forms.
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Met Museum Sued Over Van Gogh Allegedly Looted by Nazis
The heirs of a Jewish collector say the museum and the Goulandris foundation were aware of the work’s provenance.
Community
Required Reading
This week: the Bronx’s corpse flower, Jesmyn Ward on hip hop, the danger of SNAP’s expiration, horror and healing, Zohran jack-o-lanterns, and more.