News
School of Visual Arts Faculty “Blindsided” by Course Cuts Amid $22M Deficit
The SVA faculty union called on leadership at the New York institution to work with its community to address the impact of budget reductions.
New York
Feature
Shu Lea Cheang Gives Trans Artists the Wings to Fly
The filmmaker invites visitors to move and reposition the screens in her four-channel video at Leslie-Lohman, an ever-evolving mosaic of trans performances and dreamscapes.
News
NYC Culture Commissioner Diya Vij Appoints Bryan Joseph Lee as Deputy
The cultural strategist and producer will work alongside the curator and commissioner at the Department of Cultural Affairs.
Profile
Dean Millien’s Aluminum-Foil Animal World
A highlight of “Greater New York” at MoMA PS1, the artist’s remarkable sculptures made from the humble household material continue a practice he began as a child in Brooklyn.
Art Review
RISD MFA Students Paint Through the Heartbreak
Each painting is like an island awash with yearning, sending out a lighthouse signal into a fractured world.
News
A Picasso Vanished in 1961. The Guggenheim Now Wants It Back
The museum is suing the current owners of "Femme dans un fauteuil" (1918), which resurfaced decades after it was stolen from the University of Pittsburgh.
Film
“American Doctor” Is an Indictment of US Leadership and Media
The new documentary follows three humanitarian physicians as they grapple with the horrors of the US-funded genocide in Gaza.
News
15 Artists Named 2026 Joan Mitchell Fellows
Each recipient will receive $60,000 in unrestricted funding distributed over five years, in the spirit of the namesake abstract painter’s commitment to “aid and assist” artists.
News
2,300-Year-Old Fragment of Homer’s “Odyssey” Now on View at The Met
The papyrus fragment contains three lines from Book 20 of the epic that don’t appear in the modern text.
Art Review
The Lost Pearls of New York City
Alan Michelson's public art installation “The Oyster” on Governors Island conjures up the overlooked history of Indigenous shell middens.
News
Forthcoming New Museum Show Is a Love Letter to the Bowery
"The Bowery: Devil’s Mile,” opening September 24, traces 400 years of the iconic strip known as a destination for fun, however raucous or refined.
Feature
The Day I Pleated With Iris van Herpen
A show at the Brooklyn Museum invites guests to work alongside the Dutch fashion designer in her recreated atelier.