News
Man Dies in Whitney Museum Fall
The 34-year-old was found on the sidewalk outside the museum after "falling from an elevated position," according to police.
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Art Review
The Berlin Biennale's Complicit Silence
It fails to directly address the German state’s repression of pro-Palestine expression, even as many of its works model “safer” forms of resistance.
Art Review
Twenty Years of Life in Chinatown
Thomas Holton photographed the Lam family for two decades, drawing attention not only to where but also how they live.
News
Met Museum Trustee Among Victims of Midtown Manhattan Shooting
Wesley LePatner, who was elected to The Met’s board this year, was fatally shot by a gunman in Blackstone’s Park Avenue headquarters.
Art Review
A Paean to the Bygone “Borscht Belt”
Marisa J. Futernick creates fictions inspired by the Catskills, a vacation destination for midcentury Jewish families.
Features
BlackStar Festival Returns With 92 Films From Around the World
A documentary filmed in Gaza, the story of a teenager afraid of getting "cancelled," and a biography of Black writer and activist Toni Cade Bambara are among this year’s highlights.
Art Review
Refik Anadol’s Soulless AI Tribute to Leo Messi
By channeling a language as viscerally human as football, Anadol exposed both the calculated hostility of artificial intelligence and the frigidity of the fine art world.
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Amy Sherald Cancels Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship of Trans Artwork
The artist said the National Portrait Gallery was considering removing the painting after Trump issued anti-trans mandates for federally funded museums.
Book Review
The Friendship That Transformed Frida Kahlo
The cover of a new book draws you in for Kahlo, but you will stay for Mary Reynolds, the innovative bookbinder and partner of Marcel Duchamp.
Features
Chance Encounters at Upstate Art Weekend
From September gallery in Kinderhook to Ligenza Moore Gallery in Cold Spring, I set off on an ambitious road trip to 10 art spaces participating in this year’s event.
Features
Bidding Adieu to Art Deco’s Democratic Dream
A century later, the decline of the movement represents the death of the grand designs it traded in.
Art Review
Saya Woolfalk Toys With Future Worlds
The hybridized energy of Woolfalk's art is infectious; it permeates everything we see, while prodding us to question what we imagine the future might look like.