Features
Arewà Basit on Her Amy Sherald Portrait and Alchemizing Trans Joy
“How people are perceiving me is not my business,” the performance artist and model told Hyperallergic. “What I can do to make the world a better place is my business.”
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Art Review
Kimsooja Offers Refuge in an Anti-Refugee World
The artist’s site-specific exhibition at Amsterdam’s oldest building draws connections between Dutch colonial history and contemporary right-wing attitudes.
News
Trump’s Tariffs Send Shockwaves Through the Art World
Galleries say they are facing unanticipated costs and jittery collectors despite longstanding exemptions for artworks.
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LA’s Holocaust Museum Walks Back “Never Again” Statement, Sparking Outcry
The museum posted and then deleted a vaguely worded statement that many interpreted as a denunciation of Israel’s attacks on Gaza.
Art Review
The Works on Water Triennial Puts Commitment Over Spectacle
The show’s third iteration drifts between deep time, environmental urgency, and immersive aesthetic gestures.
Art Review
Emily Kam Kngwarray’s Language of Country
The late Anmatyerr artist honored the nonhuman ecologies and ancestral narratives at the heart of Aboriginal life.
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Banksy Paints Mural of Judge Beating Protester After Mass Arrests in London
The artwork, which was quickly covered, surfaced days after police arrested almost 900 people at a demonstration in support of Palestinian activists.
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A New Home for the Affordable Art Fair in New York
This fall, discover affordable art at the fair’s new location in the Starrett-Lehigh building.
Book Review
Art Loves You Back When People Don’t
Stephanie Wambugu’s Lonely Crowds follows a painter whose devotion to a filmmaker keeps her from living her life, even as she gains access to the supposed upper echelons of the art world.
Art Review
What Does Anselm Kiefer Have to Do With Van Gogh?
As a show on the pair at the Royal Academy unwittingly demonstrates, not much.
Features
At the Armory Show, First-Time Artists Steal the Spotlight
For all the whispers about the art market downturn, newcomers prove the New York fair can still serve as a stage for fresh voices.
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How New Collector Habits Are Shaking Up Art Fair Season
From the tension between digital and physical experiences to the increasingly visible intersection of politics and collecting, changing trends are reshaping the ecosystem.