Columns
Hard Truths: Should an Artist Surrender to the System to Avoid Being an “Outsider”?
A creative soul wants to seem legit, and an assistant wonders about her union-busting boss.
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Fall 2024: New Talent
Amanda Ba Details Her Painting on Art in America’s Latest Cover
The artist's work features a breed of dog called the American Bully.
“Mary Cassatt at Work” Honors the Labor of Attention and Love
The expatriate Impressionist's subject was never mas simple as mothers and children; she herself never had kids.
“Space Makers” Charts the Influence of Native Art on American Abstraction
Indian Space Painting is the focus of a multivalent survey of Native American art and the modernism it inspired.
Reviews
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BookSvetlana Alpers’s New Book Asks: Is Art History?
A new anthology collects essays from decades of a storied career. -
BookSarah Lewis’s New Book Shows How Photography Taught Americans to “See” Race
Lewis is the founder of Vision & Justice and the author of The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America. -
WoodbridgeIn A Climate Where All Palestinian Art Is “Controversial,” a Connecticut Museum Carves Space for Palestinian Dreams
The Palestine Museum US hosts tough-minded work that deals with love, anger, jealousy, fear, survival, loss, and a desire for what can come. -
BookThe First English-Language Monet Biography Portrays an Artist Capturing Nature Eclipsed by the Industrial Revolution’s Smoggy Haze
The book also concerns the nature of genius and the indiscretions it permits. -
Santa FeTeresita Fernández Shows Previously Unexhibited Works by Robert Smithson—and Finds Reasons to Argue with Him
"Teresita Fernández / Robert Smithson" is a two-person exhibition punctuated by both admiration and argument. -
New YorkFrank Walter Escaped Racism and Violence by Looking to the Stars
A range of other artists have begun looking at Walter's art, from KAWS to Peter Doig.
Videos
Interviews
Video: Arlene Shechet Brings Color and Humor to Her Monumental Sculptures
The artist discusses her new show of large-scale, boldly-colored sculptures, now on view at Storm King Art Center.
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Issues & Commentary
AI-Generated Images Are Spreading Paranoia and Misinformation. Can Art Historians Help?
Provenance research—rather than connoisseurship—is our best tool for authentication.
Newswire
RobbReport
Late Photographer Melvin Sokolsky’s Beverly Hills Home Hits the Market for $7 Million
WWD
Gillian Anderson Favors ‘Intellectual Dressing’ With Pockets on Emilia Wickstead Dress for ‘The Substance’ Premiere
BGR
Thunderbolts star says the asterisk in the title is ‘very cool’
Sportico
Shohei Ohtani Worth Every Cent as He Reaches 50/50 Mark
SPY