Features
Two Artists Capture Australia’s Ecology in a Bird
In presenting the distinct ecological identity of Australia, Peter Sharp and Michelle Cawthorn are landscape artists who don’t show you the landscape.
Featured
Features
Looking for Subculture? It’s at LA’s Art Book Fair
The diverse array of printed matter on view points to the role of small publishers in archiving and restoring lesser-told histories, preventing them from being forgotten.
Art Review
David Hammons Gets at the Why? of It
His elegantly simple exhibition — just darkness and flashlights — prompts a rethinking of what we consider worthy art.
Opinion
The Fabricated Crisis of Art Criticism
The genre is more alive than ever, so why are many eager to pronounce it dead?
Opinion
Manufacturing "Black Fatigue" in the Art World
Behind the declining demand for Black portraiture, and the backlash against Thomas J Price’s Times Square sculpture, lurks a strategic campaign of erasure.
Books
Hitler’s Three-Hour Architectural Tour of Paris
His first and last trip to the city in 1940 was not for military purposes — he left that to his generals — but for his one true love: art.
News
Koyo Kouoh, Curator Tapped for 61st Venice Biennale, Dies at 57
The museum director would have been the first African woman to oversee the Biennale.
Features
A Late Feminist Sculptor Who Plumbed the History of Human Migration
Mary Ann Unger's massive biomorphic artworks, now on view in New York City, are shockingly prescient and powerful now more than ever.
News
Frieze New York Is Back to Its Old Ways
The blue-chip art market inflates with anger and slams its fist if you keep pestering it with the nuisance of the outside world.
Opinion
Who’s Afraid of Successful Black Artists?
This spring, New York's museums feature four Black artists in major solo exhibitions. Some in the media are not happy about it.
Podcast
How Workers in Ancient Egypt and Rome Organized Strikes
Historian Sarah E. Bond joins Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian to discuss the 3000-year-old legacy of workers rebelling against unjust wages and working conditions.
Opinion
The “Pope Trump” Meme Is More Dangerous Than You Think
With humor and AI, the meme appeals to the growing constituency of devout MAGA Catholics.