One Erased Vermeer, Two Books, and No Consensus
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Rothko from Robert Mnuchin’s Estate Sells for $85.8 M., Leading Sotheby’s New York’s $433.1 M. Contemporary Art Sale
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Artist Debuts and Inspired Duos Define the Can’t-Miss Booths at Independent
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Trump Idolatry in Miami
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5 Art Novels to Read This Summer
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Trump’s Plan to Paint the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Blue Sparks Lawsuit
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Coco Fusco and Jeffrey Gibson’s Public Lectures, Free Admission at MCA Denver, and More: Industry Moves for May 13, 2026
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At Frieze New York, Business Plunks Along, Leonardo DiCaprio Alights
No one exactly loves this fair, now in its 14th…
How Dayanita Singh Got Into Venice’s Archives
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Trump Administration Sued Over Wildly Over-Budget Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Changes
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The British Museum Is Recreating the Bayeux Tapestry’s Medieval Woodland
The installation by the garden designer Andy Sturgeon takes place…
Michelle Blade Transforms Everyday California Scenes Into Luminous Reveries
In the artist’s debut solo with Night Gallery, Los Angeles,…
Art Collectors Bet on Known Quantities Amid Market Reset
Blue-chip artists and trophy lots powered the market in 2025,…
WTF Is an “A-Corp”?
Hyperallergic wins a journalism award, hilarious new protest art against…
At a Powerful Carnegie International, Solidarity Is a Means of Survival
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Two Museums Take on Performative Masculinity, Looksmaxxing, Incels, and Other Macho Buzzwords That Don’t Belong There.
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Artist Trevor Paglen Will Curate the Swiss Edition of Art Basel’s Digital Art Sector
The MacArthur “genius” artist argues that more recent art is…
A New Landmark Survey Aims to Bring Transparency to Museum Collecting Practices
The National Survey of Museum Collecting Practices will help set…
Creative Thought Is Essential: A Letter from Our Editor
The ability to learn about and enjoy art must be…
