Book Review
Before Wonder Woman, There Was Fantomah
Fletcher Hanks, a cantankerous cartoonist who was active only from 1939 to ’41, left behind a complex legacy and bizarre body of work. A new book offers clues about his enigmatic life.
Art Review
Who Was Marie Antoinette Beneath All That Silk and Spectacle?
History has never really known her as a person, and that isn’t about to change here.
Opinion
The Algorithmic Presidency
Just as 20th-century fascists deployed radio and film, today’s ideological descendants use memes, social media, and above all, artificial intelligence.
News
Nearly Intact Roman Shipwreck Rests Just Six Feet Beneath Mallorca’s Waters
Discovered in 2019, the 1,700-year-old merchant ship reveals details about early Christian trade.
Announcement
Reinvent Your Practice With UMBC’s Intermedia + Digital Arts MFA Program
Funding for tuition, healthcare, stipends, and summer research awards are available. Apply by February 1, 2026, to be considered for financial support.
Art Review
Made in L.A.’s Anti-Curation Doesn’t Work
The curators’ self described “no-methodology methodology” results in a scattered exhibition that feels bland and curatorially unimaginative.
Art Review
Coco Fusco Turns Back the Ethnographic Gaze
In her first US retrospective, she becomes museum specimen, interrogator, colonial queen, and more to expose the systems that produce them.
Features
Madison Ave Gets New Luxury Store: Sotheby’s
The auction house’s new headquarters in the iconic Brutalist building includes private showrooms, jewelry sales, and of course, Maurizio Cattelan’s solid gold toilet.
News
The Week in Art Crime and Mischief
Googly eyes on a sculpture, updates in the Louvre heist, a teenager arrested for damaging exhibits at the Met. Art crime made the news this month.
Guide
10 Exhibitions to See in Upstate New York This November
Corinne May Botz’s feast for the psyche, Larissa Tokmakova’s futuristic wrestling matches, Jody Isaacson’s ode to Artemis, and so much more.
News
Detroit Institute of Arts Workers Push to Unionize
“The people at the 'bottom' are also very important and all deserve to be getting a living wage,” said one of the workers.