News
Amy Sherald’s Trans Lady Liberty Painting Graces New Yorker Cover
The artist withdrew her exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery over concerns that the artwork would be censored.
News
Can Steve Martin Help Bring Visitors to the Frick Collection?
The art collector and Pink Panther actor prances around the museum’s freshly renovated Gilded Age mansion in a new video.
Art Review
Jillian Conrad Redefines the Limits of Drawing
Her sculptural “drawings" mark the distance between what we see and how we name it, drawing connections across time and space.
Art Review
Hande Sever Tells a Story of War and Art
The artist mines archives of conquest and imperialism in her native Turkey to produce multifaceted displays that entangle violent histories with personal narratives.
News
$200M Trump Ballroom Proposal Looks a Lot Like Versailles
Social media users couldn’t help but notice similarities between the lavish project, led by architect James McCrery, and the palace of a certain ill-fated French monarch.
Features
How Do You Remember a Home Reduced to Rubble?
Through interviews with survivors and satellite imagery, data journalist Mona Chalabi and SITU Research created models of razed houses in Gaza, Iraq, and Syria.
News
Smithsonian Removes Trump Impeachment Reference
The institution said that “a future and updated exhibit will include all impeachments,” but the timing of the alteration has raised questions.
Opinion
Homeland Security’s Genocidal Aesthetics
By posting paintings like “American Progress,” the DHS signals its white supremacist beliefs.
Opportunities
Opportunities in August 2025
Residencies, fellowships, grants, and open calls from Foundwork, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Princeton University, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.
News
Raymond Saunders, Who Made the Color Black His Own, Dies at 90
The Bay Area artist integrated chalk notation and assemblage on his idiosyncratic blackboard surfaces, plumbing the depths of lived experience and racial identity.
Community
Required Reading
This week: a new museum of Chumash history and culture, Sally Ride gets the doc she deserves, the future of fireflies, the beauty of “ugly” Instagram cakes, and much more.