News
Artist Alma Allen to Represent US at 2026 Venice Biennale
The artist alleged that two galleries dropped him from their rosters after he accepted the commission for the United States Pavilion.
Features
Artist Displays 2,000-Pound White House Made of Bullets
Al Farrow, who created the sculptural rendering in 2018, said the work took on a renewed significance under the Trump administration.
Art Review
We Are History’s Ghosts
An exhibition on the Lower East Side turns to collective memory and reenactment to cut through today’s political numbness.
Opinion
Art Market Reporters Are Getting It All Wrong
The worst of the current market decline is not the closure of major galleries. It is the dozens of younger galleries that have gone under in the past three and a half years.
Art Review
R. Crumb Wonders What It All Means
With his new comic book and exhibition, the artist explores his neurosis and mortality, but continues to question authority.
News
Former Met President Daniel Weiss to Lead Philadelphia Art Museum
The news comes on the heels of a lawsuit by former director Sasha Suda, who accused the institution of wrongful termination.
News
Frida Kahlo Becomes Most Expensive Woman Artist at Auction
“El sueño (La cama)” (1940), a surreal rumination on dreams, nightmares, and the afterlife, sold for $54.7M at Sotheby's.
Community
Required Reading
This week: pothole mosaics, mosque demolitions in India, Yazidi cultural reclamation, remembering Alice Wong, vocal fry, “American Gothic” drag, and much more.
Comics
How Did We Get Here?
We’re in a time where the act of imagining a better world is considered a threat to society.
Community
Art Movements: Why, Maurizio Cattelan, Why?
In this week’s art news, 15 women artists over 40 get their due, Robbie Williams tries furniture design, and more.
Features
Drunk Santas, Yoko Ono, and Other Joys of DOC NYC
From the disruptive nonsense of Santacon to Kwame Brathwaite’s “Black is Beautiful” movement, here’s what to see or stream.