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Required Reading
This week: Mamdani honors garment workers, a fake exchange with Sophie Calle, the first Black American tattoo artist, RIP Spirit Airlines, and more.
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In Memoriam
Remembering Georg Baselitz, Nicole Hollander, and Doris Fisher
This week, we honor a German Neo-Expressionist, the creator of the “Sylvia” comic strip, and an arts patron behind SFMOMA.
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A View From the Easel
“I like to play with materials that have a history of manipulation.”
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Required Reading
A day in the life of Peter Hujar, Mahmoud Khalil a year after detention, the madman theory of Trump, and more.
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Art Movements: Curators Named for El Museo's Latine Art Survey
Biennale shake-ups, a new leadership model for Manifesta, and Marina Abramović, wine whisperer?
In Memoriam
Remembering Raghu Rai, Jack Thornell, and Jarvis Rockwell
This week, we honor India’s most celebrated photojournalist, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, and a multi-media artist.
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A View From the Easel
“A certain level of distraction can help me see the work more clearly.”
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Art Movements: Meet the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s New Director
Plus: Turner Prize shortlist announced, Print Center New York's 2026 New Voices cohort, and a surprising acquisition backstory.
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Required Reading
This week, a museum as a site of motherhood, the amazing and terrible ways writers make their livings, Nara Smith as a performance artist? And more.
In Memoriam
Remembering Desmond Morris, James Hayward, and Flo Oy Wong
This week, we honor a surrealist and zoologist, a monochrome abstractionist, and a pillar of Oakland’s Chinatown.
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A View From the Easel With Celia Paul
“The main thing I love about my studio is that it is mine. No one can enter without permission.”
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Art Movements: Dozens Laid Off at Artnet and Artsy
Also, the Denver Art Museum's new associate curator of Native Arts, the Toronto Biennial of Art, and Marilyn Minter chats with Monica Lewinsky.