In Memoriam
Remembering Bruno Bischofberger, Manuela Hoelterhoff, and Steven Durland
This week, we honor a Swiss collector, a discerning art critic, and a champion of performance art.
Latest
Sponsored
Announcement
Art Busan Is Building a More Sustainable Art Market
Held from May 21 to 24, this year’s edition brings together over 110 galleries from 18 countries and proposes a more balanced and resilient collecting ecosystem.
Opinion
IDF Soldiers Hide From Our Gaze
Official portraits show Israeli soldiers turning their backs on the camera, ostensibly to protect them from prosecution for war crimes. The gesture is a tacit admission of guilt.
Daily Newsletter
How Dayanita Singh Got Into Venice’s Archives
Also, why would a Romano-Egyptian take Homer into the afterlife?
Newsletter
Fair Week in NYC!
Our guide to this week’s many fairs, what to see Upstate, and master printmakers and virtuosos.
Feature
Archaeologists Discover Mummy Buried With Lines From Homer’s Iliad
Found in Egypt, the papyrus confirms that Homer was everywhere in the ancient Mediterranean.
Feature
How Dayanita Singh Organized a Major Show in Venice
Unmoored from the anchors of deep pockets that often hinder imagination, the artist brought her images of archival documents to an unusual venue in the Italian city.
Feature
Maia Chao Performs the Museum
She approaches the museum less as a neutral space than as a structure that quietly trains behavior and participation.
News
Rare Early Basquiat Works Return to Brooklyn After HBCU Tour
“Our Friend, Jean,” an intimate collection from the precipice of the artist’s career explosion, is going on view at The Bishop Gallery starting this weekend.
News
Hundreds Lambast Trump’s $7.5M Plan to Whitewash Eisenhower Building
"Don't even think about it," wrote one of over 2,000 concerned citizens, architects, and preservationists who warned of permanent damage to the structure.
Community
Beer With a Painter: Keith Mayerson
“I wanted to rip the mask off the signifier and just deal with the signified,” said the cartoonist-turned-painter who depicts a cosmology of American identity and activism.
Sponsored
Announcement
Maine College of Art & Design Presents the 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition
This exhibition showcases the culmination of the graduate candidates' work in the Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art program at MECA&D.
Weekly Newsletter
May You Live in Less Interesting Times
Resignations at the Venice Biennale, the fall of the art school, Édouard Glissant’s art collection, Tania Bruguera on political art, and much more.
Daily Newsletter
Venice Biennale Jury Resigns
The exhibition’s international jury quits, Banksy strikes again, and a conversation with artist-activist Tania Bruguera.
Daily Newsletter
Trump Puts His Face on the Passport
Plus, John Yau on Édouard Glissant’s collection, Sotheby’s holds a benefit auction for the Yale MFA program, and more.
Daily Newsletter
The US Pavilion Wants Your Money
An unusual funding call for Alma Allen’s Venice exhibition, a sculpture at LACMA creates controversy, and join Hyperallergic’s event with Jeremy Frey.
New York Newsletter
Miniature Model and Giant Buddha
This week: a miniature model at MCNY, a giant Buddha on the High Line, Greater New York, and more.
Daily Newsletter
The Death of the Art School
The crumbling of art education, Kim Gordon’s rock ' n ' roll art, Lee ShinJa’s fabric abstractions, and Pussy Riot’s new protest exhibition.
Daily Newsletter
Giant Buddha Lands in New York
A nude performance, a photography fair turns to craft, and a review of Alice Tippit's erotics
Weekly Newsletter
Venice, Here We Come
A guide to the 2026 Venice Biennale, Joan Semmel still killing it at 93, Hungary's post-Orbán art world, and much more.
Daily Newsletter
Gearing Up for Venice
Get our guide to the 2026 Venice Biennale.
Daily Newsletter
Can Art Feel?
The thorny relationship between art and personhood, Hans Holbein painted the human like no one else, the National Gallery of Art receives $116M, and horses, horses, horses.
Daily Newsletter
Roses and Thorns of Greater New York
An artist on saying no to the US Biennale pavilion, Dumbo Open Studios turns 10, and the Rijksmuseum takes on Ovid's magnum opus.
New York Newsletter
Joan Semmel & Rama Duwaji
MoMA PS1 opens its once-every-half-decade “Greater New York” survey. Plus, we interview the great Joan Semmel and NYC First Lady Rama Duwaji.