Daily Newsletter
A Plea to Museum Leaders
Why museums should voluntarily recognize unions, the art dealer guilty of cyberbullying Brigitte Macron, impressions from Guatemala’s Paiz Art Biennial, and more.
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Opinion
Museum Leaders, Recognize Your Unions Now
Art institutions in the United States continue to force elections and exclude workers from eligibility to join unions, running counter to their own purported values and goals.
In Memoriam
Remembering Lucia Di Luciano, Rosa von Praunheim, and Kathleen Goncharov
This week, we honor an Italian painter, a filmmaker who chronicled queer life, and a beloved museum curator.
Art Review
International Rendezvous at Guatemala’s Paiz Art Biennial
This year’s biennial, The World Tree, was intended to highlight the “archetypal myth central to many ancient cosmogonies.”
News
Seeing Art Is Good for Your Nervous System, Study Finds
The new research posits museums and galleries as “accessible, non-clinical spaces for preventive health promotion,” per the study’s authors.
Art Review
Anselm Kiefer’s Rustbelt Romanticism
In Becoming the Sea, nostalgia for the Rhine River of Kiefer’s childhood flows into homages to the Mississippi as a symbol of both industry and creative freedom.
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French Gallerist Found Guilty of Cyberbullying Brigitte Macron
Bertrand Scholler was among 10 brought to court for promoting a conspiracy theory that the first lady was assigned male at birth.
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Daily Newsletter
Who's the Best British Romanticist of Them All?
Tate Britain's British landscape face-off, influencers apply for artist visas, remembering Kathleen Goncharov, and Ayoung Kim's digital stargazing.
Art Review
Ayoung Kim Is Stargazing in a Digital World
Her exhibition at MoMA PS1 synthesizes live-action footage, video game engines, and generative AI to create an interlocking series of speculative narratives
News
Beloved Curator Kathleen Goncharov Dies at 73
Her decorated 40-year career included serving as a US Commissioner for the 50th Venice Biennale.
Daily Newsletter
Banksy’s Heartbreaking Christmas Mural
Also: Messy Egyptian gods at The Met, the moral weight of nativity scenes, and the British Museum’s latest “decolonizing” stunt.
Daily Newsletter
A Letter to Mamdani
An appeal to the mayor-elect from an art worker, a controversial nativity scene in Belgium, and were medieval Psalms elitist?
Weekly Newsletter
Best Art in Worst of Times
Our favorite art shows and films of 2025, figure models fight for their rights, Joan Semmel's body paintings, the rise of Crusadercore, and much more.
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The World's Best Art in 2025
Also: A majority of artists struggle with debt, LACMA workers vote overwhelmingly for a union, and a word about the hilarity of evil.
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The Plight of Art Models
Also: the troubling trend of "Crusadercore," pet monkeys in Ancient Rome, and what's really going on in those Vanity Fair photos of Trump's top advisors?
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The Year in Art Films
Also: Is it ever too late to become an artist, and how do Philadelphians feel about their new Calder Gardens?
New York Newsletter
The Mayor Is Present
Marina Abramović is Zohran’s muse, the Whitney Biennial announces its exhibitors, the High Line replaces a giant pigeon with a huge Buddha, and more.
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Whitney Biennial Artists Revealed
Also: The rise of anti-monarchical art, a First Amendment rally in New York City, a Brutalist icon in Dallas, and more.
Books Newsletter
All I Want for Christmas Is More Art Books
But who has the shelf space?
Daily Newsletter
Life According to Sylvia Snowden and Joan Semmel
Also: a graffiti artist's protest against ICE deportations, TIME Magazine's miserable "Person of the Year" cover, and the enduring relevance of W. E. B. Du Bois.
Weekly Newsletter
If I Had a Picasso
The best art and books of 2025, cuts at the New School, and the return of a beloved Hyperallergic column.
Daily Newsletter
The Year in Memes
Also, a $117 Picasso, Coreen Simpson's monograph, and Jeff Wall's disorienting photography.