musefully

about 4 hours ago

Breaking Point

OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS, I have started dancing again. With a club kid for an inner child, I never really meant to stop. I moved to an unfamiliar city; I had a baby; the pandemic hit. I turned forty and assumed some chapters of my life had closed; I watched a genocide unfold on […]

Artforum

about 4 hours ago

Human Resources

On Severance

Artforum

about 4 hours ago

Bittersweet Symphony

On Song of the Earth

Artforum

about 4 hours ago

Rant and Rave

On Ralph Lemon

Artforum

about 4 hours ago

Trouble Dutch

On Keeping It Real Art Critics

Artforum

about 4 hours ago

Cecilia Alemani

AS THE DONALD R. MULLEN, JR. Director and Chief Curator of New York’s High Line Art since 2011, Cecilia Alemani has played an instrumental role in the elevation of public art and the transformation of West Chelsea. In addition to organizing public group shows and commissioning major projects from artists such as Phyllida Barlow, Carol […]

Artforum

about 4 hours ago

Resistance and Redemption

On spectacle and use value in the art of Gabriel Orozco

Artforum

about 4 hours ago

Contact Prints

On the art of Carmen Winant

Artforum

about 4 hours ago

Body Electric

On the art of Liliane Lijn

Artforum

about 4 hours ago

Our House

On Esther Mahlangu and Ndebele Art

Artforum

about 4 hours ago

Making Do

On the return of Adhocism

Artforum

about 4 hours ago

Polarvortex

On Mi You’s Art in a Multipolar World

Colossal

about 13 hours ago

Dr. Ella Hawkins Reimagines Ancient Artifacts and Prized Objects as Edible Replicas

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NYT Art & Design

about 17 hours ago

A Young Rockefeller Vanished in 1961. The Met’s New Wing Celebrates His Memory

Mary Rockefeller Morgan, daughter of Nelson and Michael’s twin, was determined to honor her family of collectors, and Indigenous art.

NYT Art & Design

about 23 hours ago

Japanese Islands’ 10th Tadao Ando Museum Caps a Billionaire’s Quest

Benesse Art Site Naoshima, a sprawling art constellation on three islands, adds a 10th museum by the star architect Tadao Ando that caps the cultural quest of Soichiro Fukutake.

NYT Art & Design

about 23 hours ago

Four Generations of Quilts Come Out of the Family ‘Treasure Chest’

The work of the African American quilters Laverne Brackens and Sherry Byrd, who continue the thread of the family tradition, will be on view at the Berkeley Art Museum.

NYT Art & Design

1 day ago

When the Met Renovated, It Listened to Villagers 9,000 Miles Away

The Ceremonial House Ceiling, a map of mythical knowledge, had hung a particular way over the Rockefeller Wing for decades. Then the Kwoma people of Papua New Guinea had their say.

Hyperallergic

1 day ago

Trump Says He Fired National Portrait Gallery Director Over DEI Support

Kim Sajet had been in the role since 2013, when she was appointed by President Obama to lead the Smithsonian institution.

NYT Art & Design

1 day ago

Trump Says He Fired Kim Sajet, National Portrait Gallery Director

Kim Sajet, the director of the Smithsonian museum for more than 12 years, has tried to bring in more contemporary artists.

ARTnews

1 day ago

Trump Fires National Portrait Gallery Director for Being a ‘Strong Supporter of DEI’

The museum had previously exhibited a portrait of Trump with a caption noting that he had been impeached twice.

Hyperallergic

1 day ago

Joiri Minaya Upends the Allure of Exoticization

The artist’s performance reflects the evolution of its garden site from starkly colonial origins to a different type of cultural cross-pollination.

Artforum

1 day ago

Frieze Seoul Names Participants in 2025 Fair

The organizers of Frieze Seoul have revealed the 120 galleries slated to participate in the fair’s 2025 edition, to kick off with a preview day on September 3 before opening to the general public September 4–6. As it did last year, Frieze Seoul will run concurrently with Kiaf Seoul, which centers Korean art. Both events […]

NYT Art & Design

1 day ago

The Met’s Renovated Rockefeller Wing Will Have Your Eyes Spinning

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Michael C. Rockefeller collection from Africa, the Ancient Americas and Oceania reopens with a pantheon of historic art stars.

ARTnews

1 day ago

Lorde’s ‘Man of the Year’ Pays Homage to an Iconic New York Land Artwork

The singer crawls and leaps through an installation that looks like Walter De Maria's New York Earth Room.