The Art

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30 NYC Monuments of Black Americans You Should Know

30 NYC Monuments of Black Americans You Should Know

From Harriet Tubman to Duke Ellington, the city boasts a wealth of public art honoring...

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For Glenn Ligon, Language Is Material

For Glenn Ligon, Language Is Material

An exhibition of Ligon’s well-known works at the Brant Foundation shows how language...

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San Francisco Art Book Fair Returns With More Programming Than Ever

San Francisco Art Book Fair Returns With More Programming...

Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation, SFABF25 spans two city blocks...

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Visitor Tears Hole in 17th-Century Painting at Uffizi Galleries

Visitor Tears Hole in 17th-Century Painting at Uffizi Galleries

A man damaged the portrait of Fernando de’ Medici while posing for a picture in...

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Venice Climate Activists Have a Blunt Message for Jeff Bezos

Venice Climate Activists Have a Blunt Message for Jeff...

A massive banner unfurled by Greenpeace takes aim at the Amazon billionaire’s lavish...

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New York’s Elizabeth Street Garden Saved From Demolition

New York’s Elizabeth Street Garden Saved From Demolition

After fighting for years against a proposal to flatten the garden to build affordable...

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Love Pulses Through Elle Pérez’s Photography

Love Pulses Through Elle Pérez’s Photography

Pérez’s impulse as a photographer is to hold a feeling still — which is, really,...

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A Massive Diane Arbus Exhibition Does So Little

A Massive Diane Arbus Exhibition Does So Little

Questionable curatorial choices seem intended to prevent critical discussion in...

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Chloë Bass Eschews the Clichés of Mixed-Race Art

Chloë Bass Eschews the Clichés of Mixed-Race Art

The artist’s Twice Seen explores visibility and perception, challenging us to refuse...

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Four New York City Art Shows to See Right Now

Four New York City Art Shows to See Right Now

From Glenn Ligon’s critique of society’s ills to Diane Arbus’s complicity in them,...

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Anna Wintour to Remain Met Gala Chair

Anna Wintour to Remain Met Gala Chair

The news of her resignation as editor-in-chief of US Vogue has raised questions...

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Tourist Denied US Entry After ICE Found JD Vance Meme on His Phone

Tourist Denied US Entry After ICE Found JD Vance Meme on...

Mads Mikkelsen from Norway told Hyperallergic that he was mistreated by border agents...

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Lisa Yuskavage’s Genre-Defying Works on Paper Presented at the Morgan Library & Museum

Lisa Yuskavage’s Genre-Defying Works on Paper Presented...

The first comprehensive museum presentation of the artist’s drawings features over...

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Funding for MFA Students: The $90,000 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

Funding for MFA Students: The $90,000 Paul & Daisy Soros...

Immigrants and the children of immigrants pursuing MFAs and other graduate degrees...

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Museum Visitors Sit on and Crush “Van Gogh Chair”

Museum Visitors Sit on and Crush “Van Gogh Chair”

The responsible individuals are shown fleeing the scene in what the Palazzo Maffei’s...

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20 Must-See Art Shows in New York City This Summer

20 Must-See Art Shows in New York City This Summer

Our list of long-running museum and noncommercial exhibitions includes John Singer...