Obituaries
Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Artist Who Confronted Injustice, Dies at 46
She stood up for human rights in both her paintings and her advocacy, criticizing Israel’s violence against Palestinians and the rise of fascism in the US.
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Gagosian to Debut New Gallery With Duchamp’s “Readymades”
The exhibition will run concurrently with the artist's first United States retrospective in over 50 years at the Museum of Modern Art.
Opinion
Trump Plays Christ and Gets the Wound Wrong
The president’s latest attempt to fashion himself as an American messiah is costing him some of his most loyal Catholic supporters.
News
Chicana Painter Criselda Vasquez Says ICE Detained Her Father
Vasquez was inspired by her Mexican immigrant parents to paint her celebrated 2017 portrait “The New American Gothic.”
Art Review
Steve DiBenedetto’s Cosmic Sense of the Absurd
He conceives of a painting as a search for a functional structure, a talisman that can aid viewers amid our collective sense of traumatic crisis.
Member Event
Jeremy Frey: The Generational Impact of a New Artistic Path
Join us on April 29 for a conversation with artist and recent MacArthur Fellowship winner Jeremy Frey and Hyperallergic Editor-at-Large Hrag Vartanian.
Book Review
Ai Weiwei and the Art of Keeping Your Mouth Shut
“On Censorship” offers timely reflections from the dissident artist, whose entire life and career have been marked by state persecution.
Daily Newsletter
What Is a "Post-Duchamp" Art World?
Art fair dispatches from Chicago to São Paulo, Thierry de Duve on Duchamp at MoMA, and Ela Troyano remembers Agosto Machado.
Weekly Newsletter
Trump's Clash of Civilizations
Dalí’s “Nuclear Mysticism,” Jasper Johns's objects of love, a new Guggenheim director, and free art supplies for all.
Art Fairs
The Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair Has Taken Off Its Training Wheels
Shaking off any initial caution from last year’s beta test, it has charged forward and made itself a space to showcase the radical history and present of printmaking.
Interview
Marcel Duchamp Was the Messenger of History
“The art world changed,” scholar Thierry de Duve told us on the occasion of MoMA’s new show. “Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’ is the message that brings us the news.”
Art Fairs
Process Is the Point at IFPDA Print Fair
“Print is a more democratic medium,” said Temma Nanas of Leslie Sacks Gallery, one of around 80 global galleries returning to the Park Avenue Armory for the annual fair.
Daily Newsletter
51% of Men Say Mona Lisa "Should Smile More"
Also, JD Vance's incel monument, the Louvre's new security upgrade, and a secretive art fair in the US Virgin Islands ...
New York Newsletter
Frida, Diego, and Raphael
Blockbuster exhibitions at The Met and MoMA, the Brooklyn Museum announces African art gallery, and things to do during a beautiful spring week.
Daily Newsletter
Fastest Art Heist in History?
Thieves walk off with three masterpieces in under three minutes, photos from No Kings, new galleries for the Brooklyn Museum's Africa collection, and more.
Film Newsletter
A Drama of Two Masters
How to survive the age of AI, and a new film tries its best to dramatize the rivalry between two British landscape painters.
Daily Newsletter
Talking Raphael
One-on-one with the curator of a historic Raphael exhibition at The Met, Robert Therrien's oversized furniture, artists against nuclear weapons, and how to save yourself from AI.
Weekly Newsletter
Whitney Biennial, Can You Hear Us?
Fascism is upon us, but a major US art show seems none the wiser. Also, how to make a protest sign, remembering Pat Steir, and more.
Daily Newsletter
Remembering Pat Steir
MoMA’s show on Frida and Diego misses the mark, the New School plans major layoffs, and John Yau stumbles upon two artistic beacons at Alexander Berggruen.
Daily Newsletter
Tracey Emin’s Therapy Art
The founder of Art in Odd Places talks about the co-opting of social practice art. Plus, Tracey Emin’s cult of the self, Frank O’Hara’s international world, and more.
Daily Newsletter
What Makes a Good Protest Sign?
Tip on how to create a powerful No Kings sign, art to see in Chicago this spring, DHS uses a Japanese artist’s painting to promote its racist agenda, the baby Jesus painting that went viral.
New York Newsletter
The Biggest Week of the Spring?
We weigh in on the new New Museum, plus a guide to spring’s art fairs, Asia Art Week, and a new take on the Whitney Biennial.
Daily Newsletter
Columbus Statue at the White House
Trump installs a toppled Columbus statue outside the White House, a Paul Klee exhibition in New York opens without its centerpiece, and photos from Morandi’s studio in Bologna.
Books Newsletter
White Girls and the Global South
Happy spring! If you've been stuck in a reading slump like me, look no further.