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Carol Bove’s Metal Textiles
Was the artist's Guggenheim survey a success? What's so "weird" about this year's Whitney Biennial? And other questions.
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Art Review
An Overfilled Guggenheim Retrospective Dulls Carol Bove’s Brilliance
A smaller survey would have allowed for something more meaningful than just showing what Bove has been doing for the past decades.
Community
Art Movements: Anicka Yi Picks Up the Pace
The artist is now represented by Pace, along with three other galleries. Plus, NYC has a new culture commissioner, closures at art schools, and more industry news.
Community
Required Reading
This week: Iranian heritage sites, a Native artist’s anti-ICE beadwork, France’s Braille Museum, mapping Black-owned bookstores, the business behind America’s sauna frenzy, and more.
Art Review
The Polycrisis Sublime of the Whitney Biennial
It felt like the world as I experience it: no clear path, but enough moments of beauty to convince me to put one foot in front of the other.
News
Guggenheim Union Rallies at Carol Bove Reception
“We're out here rallying to put pressure on the museum to come back to the bargaining table with a bit more movability on their positions,” said one of the workers.
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Olafur Eliasson: A symphony of disappearing sounds for the Great Salt Lake
As the lake’s ecological crisis worsens, the artist’s new site-specific installation in Salt Lake City renders audible what is increasingly at risk of vanishing.
Community
A View From the Easel
“I work as an attorney during the day and let loose at night in my studio.”
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Announcement
Interdimensional Timelines: Hartford Art School Exhibits Liz Nielsen’s Photograms
As she concludes her term as the university’s Distinguished Chair in Photography, Nielsen’s “light paintings” are on view this spring in West Hartford, Connecticut.
Daily Newsletter
How to Heal Your Creative Hangover
Long-lost Rembrandt goes on view, 3D scans of The Met's treasures, spring shows outside NYC, and how to cure the emotional crash after artistic bursts.
Guide
15 Art Excursions Outside NYC This Spring
The avant-garde environments of Piero Manzoni, the abstract visions of Agnes Martin, Rina Banerjee’s diaphanous monuments, and so much else to see.
News
Explore The Met’s Collection in 3D From Your Couch
The museum offers scans of items including a painting by Claude Monet, Neolithic sculptures, and Greek terracotta vases.
News
Long-Lost Rembrandt Goes on Display at the Rijksmuseum
Previously misattributed to a pupil of the Dutch Master, the painting was hidden from public view in a private collection for over six decades.
In Memoriam
Remembering Iris Cantor, Ulysses Jenkins, and Rena Bransten
This week, we honor an arts patron, a video artist, and a San Francisco gallerist.
Features
Cordy Ryman’s Playful Remix of Minimalism
The son of legendary painters, Ryman has developed his own visual language, transforming aspects of his parents’ work, and Minimalism, into something recognizably his.
News
Suffering From “Creative Hangover”? You’re Not Alone
A new study finds that artists experience negative emotions the morning after their most productive days.
Features
First Impressions From the 2026 Whitney Biennial
Here’s what we liked, what we didn’t like, and what we’re still working through.
Art Review
Magdalena Abakanowicz Sculpted the Collective Body
Her organic sculptures convey a quiet power, the faceless anonymity of multitudes transformed into a collective oneness.
Features
Can Diya Vij Make NYC More Affordable for Artists?
Arts leaders speak about the tough challenges the new culture commissioner will face in the job.
News
Plan to Close DePaul Art Museum Faces Community Backlash
Over 2,000 faculty and students have called on the Chicago school to reverse its decision, which came after budgetary concerns and layoffs in December.
Art Review
Everyday Traces of NYC’s SWANA Diaspora
An exhibition at NYPL offers a window into life within this paradox where invisibility and visibility are two sides of the same coin.
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Announcement
Call for Applications: 2026 Craft Archive Fellowship
The Center for Craft will award up to four $5,000 fellowships to support research on underrepresented craft histories, culminating in an article on Hyperallergic.