Art Review
Chloë Bass Eschews the Clichés of Mixed-Race Art
The artist’s Twice Seen explores visibility and perception, challenging us to refuse to turn one another into novelties.
Latest
Art Review
A Massive Diane Arbus Exhibition Does So Little
Questionable curatorial choices seem intended to prevent critical discussion in a major survey at Manhattan’s Park Avenue Armory.
Art Review
Love Pulses Through Elle Pérez’s Photography
Pérez’s impulse as a photographer is to hold a feeling still — which is, really, a means of honoring the living, witnessing them.
News
New York’s Elizabeth Street Garden Saved From Demolition
After fighting for years against a proposal to flatten the garden to build affordable housing, advocates welcome a new deal with the city that spares the beloved green space.
News
Venice Climate Activists Have a Blunt Message for Jeff Bezos
A massive banner unfurled by Greenpeace takes aim at the Amazon billionaire’s lavish wedding plans in the historic city.
News
Visitor Tears Hole in 17th-Century Painting at Uffizi Galleries
A man damaged the portrait of Fernando de’ Medici while posing for a picture in the latest instance of a museum selfie gone wrong.
Sponsored
Announcement
San Francisco Art Book Fair Returns With More Programming Than Ever
Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation, SFABF25 spans two city blocks and welcomes more than 150 exhibitors from around the world this July.
Art Review
The All-Over Art of Hamid Zénati
A new retrospective of Hamid Zénati is also an important record of an interconnected North African modernism.
Art Review
The Intense Intimacy of Caravaggio
He seems to speak to us directly and clearly, given his love of striking light and shadow. We experience him personally.
Features
When NYC’s Piers Were a Sanctuary for Gay Gathering
In the 1960s, amid the shipping industry's decline, the empty piers became a site for cruising and creativity for gay men in particular.
Opinion
Curtis Yarvin’s Venice Biennale Proposal Proves the Far-Right Can’t Do Art
Not content to help disintegrate democracy here at home, the cheugy shit-poster is seeking to create a new low cultural watermark in a city known for its rising tides.
News
Ringling Museum Will Stay Under Florida State University, for Now
Florida lawmakers dropped Republican Governor Ron DeSantis's highly contested proposal to transfer control of the institution to the New College of Florida.