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A View From the Easel With Celia Paul
“The main thing I love about my studio is that it is mine. No one can enter without permission.”
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Maria Britton: Second Sleep
Discarded bedsheets shape portals of reflection, obscuring the past or inviting to imagine what lies beyond in this exhibition at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston.
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LACMA Got a Makeover
Photos from the revamped LA museum, impressions from MoMA PS1's “Greater New York,” Artnet and Artsy lay off dozens of workers, and a Lebanese artist’s balm for collective wounds.
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MoMA PS1’s “Greater New York” Is Gritty, Stunning, and Gutting
The survey, which happens every five years, rejects the out-of-towner’s glossy surfaces in favor of the view from inside.
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Art Movements: Dozens Laid Off at Artnet and Artsy
Also, the Denver Art Museum's new associate curator of Native Arts, the Toronto Biennial of Art, and Marilyn Minter chats with Monica Lewinsky.
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Rawya El Chab Tends to the Wounds of Lebanon's Civil War
The latest segment of her performance series “Crossing the Water” chronicles life under military occupation after the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
Book Review
The Unnameable Artists of the Canton Trade System
In a book on Qing-era trade portraitists whose names are lost to history, Winnie Wong shows us how our restless pursuits of authenticity guide us into pitfalls of our own making.
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In Surprising Twist, ADAA Art Fair Will Now Benefit the Whitney Museum
The organization abruptly terminated its longstanding partnership with the Henry Street Settlement social services organization last year.
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Tutto Boetti 1966–1993
An exhibition of works by Alighiero Boetti at Magazzino Italian Art.
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LACMA’s New Building Invites You to Chart Your Own Path
Some visitors may feel unmoored by the museum’s open plan and free-floating associations, but others will welcome the unconventional approach.
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The Marsden Hartley Legacy Project Launches Online
The first comprehensive catalogue of artworks by acclaimed modernist painter Marsden Hartley is now freely available on the internet.
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Required Reading
This week: Tania Bruguera’s museum manifesto in stained glass, Molly Crabapple on AI’s art heist, Rachel Corrie’s mother speaks out, remembering Ashaji, right-wing knitters, and more.
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In the Studio With Rama Duwaji
Surrounded by her drawings and ceramics, we discussed her evolving art practice and new life as NYC first lady.
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“Boycott the Bezos Met Gala” Posters Emerge Across NYC
The signs protest the sponsors of this year’s event, Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchéz, and target Amazon's alleged worker exploitation and links to ICE.
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Inside a Black Panther Family Album
Kathleen and Eldridge Cleaver’s family album depicts aspirational homemaking in diaspora, capturing the tension between rest and motion as they navigated exile with their children.
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The Bennett Prize Opens Fifth Call for Entries
Women figurative realist painters can enter to win $75,000 and a traveling solo exhibition. Applications are open through September 19.
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Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Launches Digital Catalogue Raisonné
Anyone can now browse through over 2,000 works by the artist, including paintings, handwritten letters, and early sketches.
In Memoriam
Remembering Pearl Fryar, Siri Aurdal, and Frank Stack
This week, we honor a self-taught topiary artist, a mainstay of ’60s Scandinavian art, and author of what may be the first underground comic.
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Mexican Artist Alleges Plagiarism of Femicide Project
Elina Chauvet says her "Red Shoes" installation was staged in Bucharest without her knowledge or name.
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These Are the Winners of the 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship
Kenneth Tam, Alina Tenser, Sheida Soleimani, Leeza Meksin, and American Artist are among the 223 individuals receiving the annual award.
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Art Problems: Do I Need to Go to Art Fairs?
Are the fairs worth the back pain and steep ticket prices? Paddy Johnson has the answer.
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Nikyle Begay Resurrects Century-Old Diné Weavings
As an artist and shepherd, Begay facilitates their own creative process, from breeding and shearing to weaving long-undervalued twill patterns.