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.
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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.
Art Fairs
Who Do Chicago’s Art Fairs Serve?
Expo Chicago and its orbit of shows reveal both the joys and pain points of the city’s current creative environment.
Feature
Remembering Agosto Machado, Keeper of Queer Histories
The late performer and archivist spent decades as the quiet holder of our secrets, always behind the scenes, always a connector.
Art Fairs
The Paradoxical Delights of South America’s Biggest Art Fair
The 22nd edition of SP-Arte in São Paulo stands at a global nexus, yet feels decidedly regional.
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Announcement
In Kyoung Chun: Make Room
Transparent houses, suspended structures, and intimate paintings serve as metaphors for belonging in this exhibition at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston.
Community
A View From the Easel
“I consider my art to be visual music.”
Daily Newsletter
Guggenheim Museum Gets a New Director
Plus, David Novros’s portable muralism, why more cities should offer free art supplies, and an Appalachian collective’s response to a Queens Museum show.
Community
Art Movements: Meet The Met's New Photography Curator
Oluremi C. Onabanjo’s new role, grants for Queens artists and orgs, the “pinkest pink” turns 10, and more art industry news.
News
Guggenheim Museum Appoints Melissa Chiu as Next Director
After 12 years at the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum, Chiu will be joining the New York institution this coming September.
Opinion
What If Every City Provided Artists With Free Supplies?
Materials for the Arts offers free tools for teachers and artists in New York, but what if more cities funded programs like ours?
Opinion
How to Extract the Story of Appalachia
Fia Backström's Queens Museum exhibition replaces beauty and complexity with a visual and narrative language that reduces the region to a site of suffering.
Art Review
It’s Gabriele Münter’s World, We’re Just Living in It
It is her home, her landscape, her family and friends, portrayed in these images that feel miles away from her contemporaries’ modernist abstraction.
Art Review
David Novros’s Portable Murals
Instead of being an object against the wall, Novros made his intricate, multi-paneled paintings with it in mind.
Community
Required Reading
This week: Compton’s forthcoming art center, a Lebanese artist’s workshops for displaced children, dog sledding in Yukon, the NGA goes viral on TikTok, stop-motion versus AI, and more.
Art Review
Jasper Johns Keeps Looking
He has never lost his love for art and artists, while recognizing that nothing stays in time.
News
One Last Chance to See Dürer's Monumental Print in NYC
The "Triumphal Arch," one of the largest prints ever produced, will go into storage at the New York Public Library in the fall.
News
Dice Are 6,000 Years Older Than Previously Believed, Study Says
New research identifies more than 600 objects discovered in the United States as two-sided dice crafted by Native Americans.
In Memoriam
Remembering Nathan Farb, Thomas Zipp, and Christine Ruiz-Picasso
This week, we honor an intrepid photographer, a punk German artist, and the founder of the Museo Picasso Málaga.
News
Rare Wifredo Lam Portrait Lands in New York
The 1927 work is the first painting by a Cuban artist to enter the Hispanic Society Museum and Library’s collection.
Feature
Saad Khan Archives the Detritus of Censored Culture
Since 2019, the New York-based archivist has cultivated a digital and physical menagerie of censored mass media spanning South Asia to the Maghreb known as Khajistan.