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A View From the Easel
“The privacy and silence reflect the intimacy and meditative spareness of my art.”
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Family Urges Help for Venezuelan Artist Trapped Under Earthquake Rubble
Onai Quiñonez is among the thousands reported missing after two back-to-back earthquakes devastated the nation.
Daily Newsletter
William Kentridge and Lapis Blue
Plus, why is Trump meddling in the Venice Architecture Biennale?
Book Excerpt
A Natural History of William Kentridge’s Studio
Let it be said, the studio is a safe space for stupidity. A space where impulses can be given the benefit of the doubt.
Guide
What You Can’t Miss at Upstate Art Weekend
The art extravaganza in New York’s Hudson Valley and Catskills is back with a retrospective of Betty Parsons, a tailgate-style exhibition, living sculptures, and more.
Art Movements
Trump Is Coming for the Architecture Biennale
Modigliani's "indecent" nude fetches $63.9M, the National Gallery of Art gets a major contemporary art gift, and more industry news.
Community
Required Reading
This week: Scott Burton’s last sculpture, remembering Lebanese environmental activist Mona Khalil, AI slop in art journalism, NYC’s rollerskating queer icon, and more.
Queer Elders
Richard Tsao's "Sanuk" Art
In an interview with Hyperallergic, the artist known for his "Flood Room" paintings compares his decades-long practice to "the need for food."
Daily Newsletter
Victory for Claire Valdez
The artist and union organizer sweeps the NYC primary, and what makes an antiquities looter loot?
Queer Elders
Don’t Ask Lari Pittman What His Work Is “About”
The Colombian-American painter discusses his new body of work, the complexity of queerness, and the reprieve of the analog.
In Memoriam
Remembering Frayda Feldman, James Wagner, and Melodee Strong
This week, we honor an Andy Warhol print expert, a tireless art collector, and a beloved Minneapolis muralist.
Interview
Inside the Mind of an Antiquities Looter
"The Man Who Stole the Gods" author Matthew Campbell discusses Western collectors' rapacious hunger for ancient Cambodian art and the sheer violence it took to satiate it.