Interview
Marcel Duchamp Was the Messenger of History
“The art world changed,” scholar Thierry de Duve told us on the occasion of MoMA’s new show. “Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’ is the message that brings us the news.”
New York
Art Fairs
Process Is the Point at IFPDA Print Fair
“Print is a more democratic medium,” said Temma Nanas of Leslie Sacks Gallery, one of around 80 global galleries returning to the Park Avenue Armory for the annual fair.
News
Guggenheim Museum Appoints Melissa Chiu as Next Director
After 12 years at the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum, Chiu will be joining the New York institution this coming September.
Opinion
What If Every City Provided Artists With Free Supplies?
Materials for the Arts offers free tools for teachers and artists in New York, but what if more cities funded programs like ours?
Opinion
How to Extract the Story of Appalachia
Fia Backström's Queens Museum exhibition replaces beauty and complexity with a visual and narrative language that reduces the region to a site of suffering.
Art Review
It’s Gabriele Münter’s World, We’re Just Living in It
It is her home, her landscape, her family and friends, portrayed in these images that feel miles away from her contemporaries’ modernist abstraction.
Art Review
David Novros’s Portable Murals
Instead of being an object against the wall, Novros made his intricate, multi-paneled paintings with it in mind.
Art Review
Jasper Johns Keeps Looking
He has never lost his love for art and artists, while recognizing that nothing stays in time.
News
One Last Chance to See Dürer's Monumental Print in NYC
The "Triumphal Arch," one of the largest prints ever produced, will go into storage at the New York Public Library in the fall.
News
Rare Wifredo Lam Portrait Lands in New York
The 1927 work is the first painting by a Cuban artist to enter the Hispanic Society Museum and Library’s collection.
Opinion
Unlike Josh Kline, I Choose New York
His new article taps into deep frustrations about affordability, but I throw my lot in with those making change, rather than moving out.
New York Newsletter
Kamrooz Aram Is Everywhere
Read Aruna D’Souza’s take on the Iranian artist. Plus, Duchamp is coming to MoMA, Upstate art this month, and more.