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fromGothamist
17 hours ago

MoMA PS1 is turning 50. Here's how it's celebrating.

Queens Museum MoMA PS1 celebrates its 50th anniversary with free admission and diverse programming, including a block party and exhibitions.
Brooklyn
fromBrooklyn Paper
2 days ago

Arts Gowanus unveils packed 2026 season, from Venice-themed gala to Pride art show * Brooklyn Paper

Arts Gowanus announces a busy 2026 lineup with various events, including the Patterns Gala and a major outdoor exhibition for Brooklyn Pride.
Podcast
fromArtforum
2 days ago

Schlock Jock: Joshua Citarella at the Whitney Biennial

Doomscroll podcast's live tapings at the Whitney reflect changing museum priorities and the evolving relationship between art and digital discourse.
#architecture
SOMA, SF
fromArchitectural Digest
3 days ago

Inside the New Museum's Long-Awaited Addition, Designed by OMA

OMA designed a glass-covered tower that integrates with an older building, featuring a complex atrium and stairway, creating a unique architectural experience.
Design
fromArchDaily
4 days ago

Unbearable Lightness of Being Installation / Saiqa Iqbal Meghna and Suvro Sovon Chowdhury

The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a lightweight architectural installation that creates adaptable gathering spaces in Dhaka's urban environment.
SOMA, SF
fromArchitectural Digest
3 days ago

Inside the New Museum's Long-Awaited Addition, Designed by OMA

OMA designed a glass-covered tower that integrates with an older building, featuring a complex atrium and stairway, creating a unique architectural experience.
Design
fromArchDaily
4 days ago

Unbearable Lightness of Being Installation / Saiqa Iqbal Meghna and Suvro Sovon Chowdhury

The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a lightweight architectural installation that creates adaptable gathering spaces in Dhaka's urban environment.
fromHi-Fructose Magazine - The New Contemporary Art Magazine
3 days ago

Kyle Cobban Draws From The Unknown - Hi-Fructose Magazine

"It's an amalgamation of the Chicago neighborhood aesthetic with a Bulls fan, quite literally. It's kind of on the nose, but that's how I juxtapose the elements of my work, with the structure of a home and then a figure who is around or in the home."
Chicago Bulls
Media industry
fromArtforum
5 days ago

Dialogues and Dreams

Artforum evolved to foster international dialogue and promote substantive commentary in response to contemporary challenges in the arts ecosystem.
Social justice
fromHarper's BAZAAR
5 days ago

The Women of the Bund Fought to Free Their Loved Ones

Visitation at Rikers Island highlights the strength and solidarity of women supporting incarcerated loved ones amidst systemic humiliation and bureaucratic obstacles.
fromThe New Yorker
6 days ago

Victoria Tentler-Krylov's "Parallel Lives"

"Most people don't stop to observe the crews' work or the infrastructure they uncover," Tentler-Krylov said. "But these unseen things keep the city going."
London
fromArchDaily
5 days ago

Fundacio Mies van der Rohe Presents "Transnational Narratives," a Documentary on Six South Asian Women Architects

The documentary, created by Dr. Igea Troiani, Dr. Mamuna Iqbal, artist and researcher Paula Roush, and filmmaker Rime Tsujino, brings visibility to the experiences of six architects of South Asian origin.
Women in technology
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fromArtforum
6 days ago

Agosto Machado, Whose Shrines Immortalized a Lost NYC Underground, Is Dead

Agosto Machado, a performance artist and activist, died on March 21, known for his shrines honoring those lost to the AIDS crisis.
Arts
fromMission Local
1 day ago

Blood, mud and a cobweb create ache of heartbreak at Asian Art Museum

Chiharu Shiota's exhibition explores themes of personal loss and connection through intricate art pieces made from blood, mud, and yarn.
NYC music
fromQueerty
2 days ago

Claybourne Elder gets personal, playful & a little creepy with a package of reimagined standards - Queerty

Claybourne Elder's debut album reimagines iconic songs, blending storytelling with humor and emotional depth for a fresh perspective on timeless classics.
Photography
fromAnOther
3 days ago

The Corporeal, Bizarre Photography of Torbjrn Rdland

Torbjørn Rødland's new exhibition features a shift towards simpler photographic styles, emphasizing suggested features and everyday observations.
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fromColossal
2 days ago

Brushstrokes Transform into Beaded Topographies in Liza Lou's Mixed-Media Paintings

Mid-20th-century artists innovated with loose brushstrokes, while Liza Lou uses beads to explore gesture and intention in her work.
NYC music
fromThe Washington Post
3 days ago

Opinion | What's that mysterious sound in Times Square? Look down.

Max Neuhaus created 'Times Square,' a sound sculpture that blends urban noise with art, designed to be experienced without any visible markers.
Arts
fromArtnet News
2 days ago

David Nott Brings Textured Abstraction to the Screen with LG Gallery+

David Nott's textile works blend sculpture, design, and craft, with his 'Color Riddle' series emphasizing color, shape, and texture.
fromThe New Yorker
2 weeks ago

Maira Kalman's "Amid It All"

Maira Kalman painted a vase exploding with flowers, capturing the anticipatory air the season brings. She cited Gustav Mahler's 'Das Lied von der Erde' ('The Song of the Earth') as her inspiration: 'Dark is life. Spring is here. The birds are singing.' What more do we need to know?
Berlin music
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fromHyperallergic
3 days ago

Required Reading

Calida Rawles' art explores the duality of water as both healing and destructive within the Black diaspora's history.
Photography
fromKALTBLUT Magazine
1 week ago

Analog Human Studies: 25 Years of Photography by Slava Mogutin - KALTBLUT Magazine

Slava Mogutin's exhibition showcases intimate analog photography that explores connection and vulnerability, challenging conventional documentary narratives.
#museum-expansion
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

Culture of care: surreal celebrations of Iranian tenderness in pictures

Sheida Soleimani's work reframes caring for bodies as a political act in her exhibition, Forest of Stars.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
3 days ago

15 Shows to See in New York City This April

New York's art scene thrives on experimental exhibitions in smaller venues, showcasing diverse and innovative works that challenge conventional narratives.
Arts
fromBerlin Art Link
3 days ago

Review of Group Show Anahita Sadighi Gallery | Berlin Art Link

The exhibition 'Let Us Believe in the Dawn of Spring' celebrates renewal through diverse artistic expressions coinciding with the Persian New Year.
Arts
fromwww.amny.com
3 days ago

Grimanesa Amoros and the architecture of illumination

Light is a powerful force in art, transcending culture and language, and is essential to understanding perception and truth.
fromJuxtapoz
6 days ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Last Days to See Kate Meissner's New Paintings @ Lyles & King's Project Space, NYC

"These works are an exploration of the human body's elasticity and capacity to metamorphose. Informed by my own experience of pregnancy and the birth of my first child last year, these paintings are a meditation on physiological transformation and the body's underlying animalistic and mammalian nature."
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fromHyperallergic
3 days ago

An Artist Embraces the Metaphorical Cracks of Matzah

Emily Drew Miller's art reflects the disconnection felt among Jewish people through her matzah-inspired prints.
fromColossal
3 days ago

Symbiotic Communion Flourishes in Laura Berger's Expansive Paintings

Laura Berger continues her explorations of communion in a suite of staggering paintings that place her signature minimal figures in intimate fellowship with one another and the earth.
Arts
#art
fromIrish Independent
5 days ago
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'You have to step in and experience it' - artists on the rise of AI-generated art and the 'essential' gallery visit

Miriam Fitzgerald Juskova's exhibit combines paper quilling with mathematics, showcasing intricate art that engages viewers and emphasizes the value of handmade creations.
fromArtnet News
5 days ago
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How Artist Paris Giachoustidis Balances Fragility and Beauty

The exhibition at Filser and Gräf explores the theme of balance through the works of artists Paris Giachoustidis and Toshihiko Mitsuya.
Arts
fromwww.amny.com
4 days ago

In praise of upheaval: Women, art, and the refusal of stillness | amNewYork

Art emerges from upheaval, reflecting change as an inherent female quality and rejecting imposed stillness.
Arts
fromIrish Independent
5 days ago

'You have to step in and experience it' - artists on the rise of AI-generated art and the 'essential' gallery visit

Miriam Fitzgerald Juskova's exhibit combines paper quilling with mathematics, showcasing intricate art that engages viewers and emphasizes the value of handmade creations.
fromHyperallergic
3 days ago

The Art World Is a Joke

Kamrooz Aram is everywhere this year, from Mumbai Art Week to the Whitney Biennial, and critic Aruna D'Souza is grateful. She pens a beautiful meditation on his work, reading his abstract paintings as not simply a denunciation of Western modernism nor a reassertion of Islamic visual motifs, but something else entirely - something gestural, exuberant, riotous, and incomparably his own.
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fromHyperallergic
4 days ago

Kamrooz Aram Breaks Down the Grid

Kamrooz Aram's art challenges the binary of Western modernism and non-Western decoration by loosening the grid's constraints.
Arts
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
4 days ago

'The sharp perception only a woman can bring to observing other women': Dorothy Bohm's photographs go on show at Lee Miller's former home

Dorothy Bohm's exhibition 'About Women' showcases seven decades of her female-focused photography, highlighting her legacy as an influential woman photographer.
Arts
fromGothamist
5 days ago

A one-man psychedelic art empire thrives in Brooklyn

Alex Aliume's Brooklyn studio attracts thousands of visitors with his unique glow-in-the-dark art and immersive experiences.
Arts
fromThe New Yorker
5 days ago

The New Museum Returns, but Humans Are Left Behind

The exhibition explores humanity's struggle against technology through diverse multimedia installations and thought-provoking artworks.
Arts
fromArtnet News
5 days ago

Rare Rauschenberg Experimental Dance Revived at Brooklyn Roller Rink

The Trisha Brown Dance Company is reviving Robert Rauschenberg's 1963 dance 'Pelican' for the first time in 60 years at a Brooklyn event.
Arts
fromJuxtapoz
1 week ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Molly Bounds "The Light That Loses, The Night That Wins" @ Mrs Gallery, Maspeth, NY

Molly Bounds' exhibition explores the themes of light, solitude, and psychological tension through transformative moments in her paintings.
Arts
fromArtforum
5 days ago

Can the Biennial Serve a City, or Just "Big Art"?

Regional juried exhibitions have evolved, with new triennials emerging to address local artmaking and economic growth, but face challenges in meeting diverse expectations.
fromKALTBLUT Magazine
2 months ago

Video Premiere: Molly Mogul - Run - KALTBLUT Magazine

Today marks a defining moment for the rising star, singer-songwriter, and performance artist Molly Mogul as she unveils her new single "Run," offering a tantalising taste of her forthcoming debut album set to drop this spring. This track serves as an invitation into a vibrant new chapter for the German artist, featuring an entrancing blend of pop, experimental soundscapes, and movement-based storytelling.
Music
Arts
fromVogue
5 days ago

In Tribeca, a Pillar of Cape Town's Artistic Community Finds New Ground

Southern Guild opens a new gallery in Tribeca, New York, after learning from its previous Los Angeles location, emphasizing fresh energy and confidence.
Arts
fromColossal
6 days ago

Semiprecious Stones Coat Kathleen Ryan's Oversized Sculptures of Rotting Food

Mold inspires Kathleen Ryan's sculptures, using materials to reflect decay and hidden beauty in oversized food representations.
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

"This Is How It Happens," by Molly Aitken

You are leaving work, your suit still damp from the morning's downpour, the skin on your palms peeling. You are clutching two supermarket bags, tins of cream soup and tuna knocking against one another. The rain is hard and your anorak is cheap. You are on your way to Stockbridge, to your parents' house, which only your father inhabits now that your mother is gone.
Books
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fromJuxtapoz
1 week ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Nat Meade's "Franklin" @ HESSE FLATOW, NYC

Nat Meade's exhibition 'Franklin' explores life's struggles and triumphs through figurative works reflecting personal experiences and themes of vulnerability and renewal.
fromHyperallergic
6 days ago

Mondays at Pratt Institute: Weekly Openings of Work by Graduating Artists

Pratt Shows is an annual series of public exhibitions and presentations by the Institute's graduating class, representing years of research, exploration, and creative inquiry.
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fromsfist.com
6 days ago

New Dogpatch Gallery to Open This Spring Honoring Ruth Asawa's Work and Legacy

A new gallery dedicated to Ruth Asawa's work opens this spring, celebrating her 100th birthday and her contributions to art and education.
#censorship
Arts
fromColossal
6 days ago

Xiaoze Xie Preserves a Growing Collection of Banned Books in Porcelain

Censorship and book bans are increasing globally, raising concerns about access to information and free expression.
Arts
fromColossal
6 days ago

Xiaoze Xie Preserves a Growing Collection of Banned Books in Porcelain

Censorship and book bans are increasing globally, raising concerns about access to information and free expression.
Arts
fromObserver
1 week ago

Robert Wiesenberger On Thinking Relationally and Brooklyn's Art World Ambitions

Robert Wiesenberger joins the Brooklyn Museum as Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, aiming to enhance its collection and address contemporary issues.
#new-museum
fromArtforum
1 week ago
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What's Old Is New Again: Surrealists and Robots at the Newer New Museum

The New Museum's grand reopening featured a thematic exhibition exploring utopian and dystopian societies, showcasing historical works alongside contemporary art.
fromHyperallergic
1 week ago
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The Biggest Week of the Spring?

The New Museum reopened with mixed reviews, alongside various art fairs and Asia Art Week events in New York.
Arts
fromArtforum
1 week ago

What's Old Is New Again: Surrealists and Robots at the Newer New Museum

The New Museum's grand reopening featured a thematic exhibition exploring utopian and dystopian societies, showcasing historical works alongside contemporary art.
Arts
fromwww.amny.com
1 week ago

A fever dream in Chelsea: The Outsider Art Fair | amNewYork

The Outsider Art Fair 2026 showcases art that exists outside traditional narratives, emphasizing raw expression and instinctive creation.
#public-art
Arts
fromTime Out New York
1 week ago

A dreamy sunset art exhibit lands at Rock Center

A new public art installation at Rockefeller Center features glowing sunsets and interactive elements, encouraging visitors to pause and reflect.
Photography
fromItsnicethat
2 months ago

Doing the "bare maximum" with limited resources: Tina Tona on fostering creativity through collage

Tina Tona creates colourful photo-collages from found ephemera and cut-up magazines exploring diasporic Black expression, pop culture, and her dual heritage.
fromHyperallergic
2 weeks ago

New Ways of Seeing at the Outsider Art Fair

The Outsider Art Fair has enriched New York City's art world since its inception in 1993, presenting eclectic and idiosyncratic artists who challenge traditional fine art hierarchies.
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fromJuxtapoz
2 weeks ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Alicia McCarthy Opens New Solo Show @ V1 Gallery, Copenhagen

Alicia McCarthy's art combines vibrant colors and spontaneous gestures, creating interconnected compositions that reflect community and urban life.
#museum-architecture
Arts
fromCurbed
2 weeks ago

An Even Newer New Museum

The New Museum in New York reopens after renovation with OMA's expansion that respectfully preserves Sanaa's original unconventional design while adding new gallery space through a connected adjacent structure.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 weeks ago

Required Reading

Artists depict motherhood and childbirth through raw, unsentimental imagery that challenges conventional artistic and cultural representations of birth and maternal experience.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 weeks ago

The New New Museum

The New Museum reopens this week with an inaugural exhibition exploring humanity during technological change, alongside exhibitions on saris, Gainsborough, Carol Bove, and experimental art in Brooklyn.
fromBOOOOOOOM!
2 weeks ago

"Always Were" by Artist Opal Mae Ong

Ong's work contains a deep reverence for the otherworldly, combining the remnants of ancestral knowledge with speculative visions to form a kind of personal myth-making. The title of their latest series, "Always Were", is intentionally fragmentary suggesting a temporal and grammatical ambiguity that points to the liminal nature of Ong's figures and the time and place they inhabit.
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fromForbes
3 weeks ago

The Art Fair Zohran Mamdani Would Love: NYC's Affordable Art Fair

New York's Affordable Art Fair democratizes art ownership by making art accessible and affordable to everyone, challenging the wealthy gatekeeping that has historically dominated the art world.
fromHyperallergic
3 weeks ago

Art Problems: How Do I Get Gallery Representation?

Dealers like artists with established sales records because it lowers their already considerable financial exposure. Renting a gallery space in Tribeca costs anywhere between $8,000-30,000 a month on top of staff, marketing, and daily operations. With that kind of overhead, very few business owners can afford to take on the financial risk of untested artists.
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fromArtnet News
3 weeks ago

Blink and You'll Miss It! 3 New York Shows With Painfully Short Runs | Artnet News

Gallery exhibition runs have lengthened from weeks to five or six weeks due to increased competition and high mounting costs, though a countermovement of brief, limited-time shows is emerging.
fromHyperallergic
3 weeks ago

Embracing Friction in the Art World

On Franklin Street in Brooklyn's Greenpoint neighborhood, one non-commercial gallery fosters 'a small, stubbornly human space for friction.' Friction—the ubiquitous buzzword that captures the simultaneous delight and discomfort of doing things the slow way—is at the heart of artists Pap Souleye Fall and Char Jeré's current show at Subtitled NYC. It also reflects the overall spirit of this little exhibition space and of a burgeoning movement to reject our culture of optimization in favor of a bumpier, more intimate, less alienating experience.
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fromHyperallergic
3 weeks ago

Required Reading

Women's strikes, graffiti activism, and museum repatriation efforts represent diverse forms of contemporary protest and cultural reckoning across multiple global contexts.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
3 weeks ago

A View From the Easel

Artist Lusmerlin Lantigua uses meditative practices like dancing and singing to align body and mind before painting, viewing the studio as a flexible space where nature observation directly influences creative work.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
3 weeks ago

Beer With a Painter: Hilary Harkness

Artist Hilary Harkness creates densely detailed paintings on small surfaces that blend historical narratives with fantastical reimaginings, exploring human contradictions through hyperrealist maximalism.
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Raw Material: The Art and Life of Susan Kleckner

Raw Material: The Art and Life of Susan Kleckner, on view at Haverford College's Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery through April 5, 2026, is the first comprehensive retrospective of the pioneering feminist artist, filmmaker, photographer, and performance artist. Bringing together nearly 100 works, many never before publicly exhibited, the exhibition seeks to reposition Kleckner as a foundational figure in feminist, queer, and activist art histories.
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fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Required Reading

Artists explore themes of Black resistance, marronage, and ecological history through natural materials and portraiture while navigating creative practice alongside full-time work.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

"By Design" Treats Women Like Objects

A woman transforms into a chair in a surrealist comedy that exposes how consumer culture conflates femininity with material desire and envy.
Arts
fromHypebeast
1 month ago

Anish Kapoor Presents New 'Mirror Works' in NYC

Anish Kapoor's polished stainless-steel mirror sculptures distort space and perception, using reflective surfaces, voids, and color to create immersive, disorienting spatial experiences.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Art Movements: Marilyn Minter Wins Again

Marilyn Minter won the 2026 Anderson Ranch International Artist Award amid a wave of museum appointments, gallery signings, and leadership changes.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Required Reading

Lunar New Year festivities and California's new Historic South L.A. Cultural District underscore renewed recognition of local arts, community celebration, and plans for a monument.
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

The Sticky Politics of Wall Texts

In 2024, I made a vow to never base my art criticism on wall labels. My decision came after reading reactions to that year's Whitney Biennial. "If every label in 'Even Better Than the Real Thing,' the 81st installment of the Whitney Biennial, were peeled off the walls and tossed into the Hudson, what would happen?" asked Jackson Arn in the New Yorker. (He went on to suggest that the overall show would have been much better.)
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fromDesign Milk
2 months ago

Vivian Chiu on Joyce Lin, Sylvie Rosenthal, Meg Callahan + More

Vivian Chiu combines precise woodworking and sculptural techniques to create optical forms through iterative deconstruction, reconstruction, and research-informed marquetry.
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Beloved Curator Kathleen Goncharov Dies at 73

Kathleen Goncharov, a longtime curator who served as the United States Commissioner for the 50th Venice Biennale, has died at the age of 73. The news of her passing was announced by a group of friends and her partner, poet and artist Charles Doria. She died of natural causes in her Boca Raton home on New Year's Eve. Goncharov is remembered as a doting friend, a champion of artists, and a gifted and intuitive curator.
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fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

The Things That Really Matter

Artists and communities mobilize memorials, protests, and cultural expression to resist state violence, political aggression, cultural censorship, and labor suppression.
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

These Are the Artists in MoMA PS1's Greater New York Show

Taking over the museum's transformed school building starting April 16, the cross-borough survey will celebrate MoMA PS1's 50th anniversary with a bevy of site-specific installations, new commissions, and rarely seen work by 53 artists and collectives living and working across New York City. A complete list of participants is included at the end of this article. This year, Greater New York will coincide with the Whitney Biennial for the first time in the show's history.
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fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

A View From the Easel

I work outside, carving and shaping the stone. Outside my house, I have a table, an extension cord, and tools. It's very cold and I have to wear all my winter clothes. When it's too cold, I do the filing and finishing work inside after I shape it outside. I listen to all kinds of music. I listen to Eminem all the time; his albums are all my favorites. For drawings, I work at Kinngait Studios or at home on my kitchen table.
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fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Required Reading

Artists use playful, empathetic imagery to challenge ageist and gendered stereotypes and to restore community and resilience amid destruction.
fromColossal
2 months ago

Stephanie Temma Hier Juxtaposes Uncanny Ceramic Sculptures with Embedded Paintings

The Brooklyn-based artist is formally trained as a painter and self-taught as a ceramicist, and she fuses the two modes of working into a complementary practice. Hier begins by sculpting a wide range of forms, and after several rounds of firing with both handmade and commercially available glazes, she adds a painting. The pairings arise intuitively, sometimes through free association, trial and error, or by homing in on a color.
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