Feature

The Tiny Brooklyn Project Space Resisting the Gallery Machine

The non-commercial Greenpoint-based space Subtitled NYC models the tentative ways we make do in everyday life.

Community

A View From the Easel

“I use my entire body when painting, so I need to align it with my mind beforehand.”

Daily Newsletter

The Problem With Art Awards

Lucian Freud's paintings of "lostness," the real purpose of art awards, a new center for Native American art, and a lot of chair stuff.

News

Laura Phipps Tapped to Lead Gochman Collection of Indigenous Art

The former Whitney curator will steer the NYC organization as it builds a permanent exhibition space in the Hudson River Valley.

Opinion

Awards Season and the Management of Cultural Power

What is being offered as recognition often operates as a way of organizing power, determining not only what is seen, but who is positioned to benefit from that visibility.

Art Review

Lucian Freud Mastered the Art of Lostness

As a National Portrait Gallery exhibition proves, he was especially good at depicting people painfully adrift from themselves.

News

Text Messages Reveal How University of North Texas Leaders Axed an Anti-ICE Show

The school’s president and provost discussed removing artworks “of concern” before shuttering Victor Quiñonez’s exhibition, alarming free speech advocates.

In Memoriam

Remembering Pedro Friedeberg, Thaddeus Mosley, and Liliana Angulo Cortés

This week, we honor the inventor of the Hand Chair, a beloved Pittsburgh sculptor, and the director of the Museo Nacional de Colombia.

Art Review

Mid-Century Modernism Goes Rogue in “Chair-ish”

Artists Alex Chitty and Norman Teague give each other the permission needed to do something as heretical as saw an Eames chair into pieces.

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Announcement

Merging Craft Practices and New Media at the Museum of Craft and Design

Through themes of encoding, looping, and sampling, “Video Craft” brings the craft roots of emerging film technologies into focus. Now on view in San Francisco.

Daily Newsletter

Art Basel Qatar's Complicity

Art Basel's complicity in Qatar's persecution of queer people, the US and Israel bomb another Iranian historic palace, protest against the Venice Biennale, Beer With a Painter, and more.

New York Newsletter

The Whitney Biennial Is Here

Our first impressions, Chinatown storefront art, and things to do on a glorious spring day.