Art Review
Jeff Koons’s Reflective Sculptures Mirror the One Percent
When I picture where Koons’s sculptures belong, I think about Trump’s plan for a 90,000-square-foot ballroom, and the art collectors who funded it.
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A Somali-American Artist Speaks Out
Minnesota art orgs take a stand against ICE, Senate rescues arts funding, and what exactly is the "2016 trend"?
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Congress Funds Institute of American Indian Arts
The Senate confirmed appropriations for the college and several other embattled cultural institutions following Trump's threats to defund them.
Community
Art Movements: New Leaders Everywhere
Plus, Amy Sherald signs with the Creative Artists Agency and the Whitney Museum’s head-scratching “cosmic look” at its 2026 Biennial artists.
Community
Required Reading
Rose B. Simpson at SFMOMA, historical writers with day jobs, anti-surveillance clothing, the nostalgia of 2016, a day in the life of an art conservator, and more.
Art Review
Nicola L.’s Soft Power
The late artist’s playful “functional sculptures” nod to second-wave feminism, but make a broader statement about resistance through collaboration.
Opinion
On Being a Somali Artist in Minnesota
Violence has a way of turning familiar places into guarded ground. And yet, I ask not what has been taken, but what we will continue to build from what remains.
Community
A View From the Easel
“I use palo santo in my space before working to honor my ancestors.”
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Request for Proposals: Operator for the Harlem African Burial Ground Cultural Education Center
Learn about this opportunity to develop a cultural education center at the historic East Harlem site during informational sessions in January and February.
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Minnesota Art Spaces to Close in Solidarity With Anti-ICE Strike
The Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Art are among the hundreds of businesses shuttering on January 23 in protest of the ICE killing of Renee Macklin Good.
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How to Get Into the Whitney Biennial
Queens Museum leader quits, Gabrielle Goliath sues, vintage gay porn as political art, and more.
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Gabrielle Goliath to Seek Legal Action After Axed Venice Biennale Pavilion
The artist alleges that South Africa’s minister of culture acted unconstitutionally in canceling her commission, which included references to Gaza.