News
Independent Art Fair Partners With Sotheby's, Raising Larger Market Questions
It’s the first such collaboration between an auction house and a fair, two distinct models for selling art.
New York
Art Review
The Works on Water Triennial Puts Commitment Over Spectacle
The show’s third iteration drifts between deep time, environmental urgency, and immersive aesthetic gestures.
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Announcement
A New Home for the Affordable Art Fair in New York
This fall, discover affordable art at the fair’s new location in the Starrett-Lehigh building.
Feature
At the Armory Show, First-Time Artists Steal the Spotlight
For all the whispers about the art market downturn, newcomers prove the New York fair can still serve as a stage for fresh voices.
Feature
How New Collector Habits Are Shaking Up Art Fair Season
From the tension between digital and physical experiences to the increasingly visible intersection of politics and collecting, changing trends are reshaping the ecosystem.
Feature
Art on Paper Leaps Off the Page
This year, “paper” means giant clipboards, Moleskine notebook sketches, and even embroidered cash — works that make traditional drawing look, well, two-dimensional.
Film Review
Examining the Legacy of Fascist Cinema’s Grand Dame
A new documentary about Leni Riefenstahl shows that aesthetics and politics are inextricably linked, and that no image is innocent when wielded by the state.
News
Elizabeth Foundation Makes Offer on Iconic Chelsea Artist Building
The Foundation wants to transform the complex into a residency program, a plan it says will keep longtime tenants in their studios amid concerns over the sale.
Guide
Four New York City Shows to See Right Now
Rejin Ley’s paper sculptures at a historic museum, Christian Marclay’s concept of doors as transformative spaces, Marian Spore Bush’s 1930s prophecies of WWII, and more.
Feature
How Art Deco Changed American Cinema
On the centennial of the movement, Film Forum is hosting a months-long retrospective of screenings.
News
Man Caught Smuggling Hundreds of Egyptian Antiquities Through JFK Airport
The 52-year-old Brooklyn resident allegedly falsified provenance documents to conceal the artifacts' illicit origins.
Art Review
Marian Spore Bush Was Nobody’s “Visionary Artist”
When “rediscovered” women artists are lumped together, we might ask: Who acts as the discoverer, who tells the story, and how do they tell it?