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In Artforum’s Summer 2024 issue: @bisabutler remembers Faith Ringgold, @CamhiLeslie on “Lempicka,” @Lucy2Scribbles on museums and the public sphere, Saj Issa and Jordan Nassar present their recent works about Palestine, Jenny Wu on Hélène Fauquet, + more.

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Waters, an ardent champion of his hometown, bequeathed 375 artworks and objects from his collection to the museum, receivable upon his death, with the stipulation that the museum name its east lobby bathrooms after him.

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JOHN WATERS NAMED TO BOARD OF BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART

The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) yesterday announced five new board trustees, only one of whom will have a bathroom named after him at the institution. Cultural icon and Baltimore…

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“The possessive investment in whiteness can’t be rectified by learning ‘how to be more antiracist.’ It requires a radical divestment in the project of whiteness and a redistribution of wealth and resources. It requires abolition.” —Saidiya Hartman

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Musician-artist Björk talks with author-scientist Robin Wall Kimmerer about how language connects us to the natural world and what it means to live in relationship to the land in the latest episode of Artists on Writers | Writers on Artists.

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BJöRK AND ROBIN WALL KIMMERER

The musician-artist and author-scientist discuss how to live in right relationship to the land

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To ring in the new year, we have unlocked our paywall for the next 48 hours. All online content—including the new Jan/Feb issue and our entire archive (spanning nearly six decades)—is currently free for readers. Simply visit .

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Lawrence Weiner, a central figure of Conceptualism who profoundly altered the landscape of American art, has died at 79. “It was not ironic,” he said of his work. “It was not against anything except the entire culture. That’s what art is.”

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LAWRENCE WEINER (1942–2021)

Lawrence Weiner, a towering figure in the Conceptual art movement arising in the 1960s and who profoundly altered the landscape of American art, died December 2 at the age of…

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Breaking: Nan Goldin arrested outside @NYGovCuomo ’s office during protest demanding the creation of promised overdose prevention centers

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“Thirty-three years after she died in a fall from Carl Andre’s balcony, Ana Mendieta’s ghostly silhouettes are powerful, painful reminders of her untimely erasure.” Catherine Wood's 2018 Top Ten

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“Grounding movement—and the mediation of memory—fully in the authorial body, Mitchell discovers her true subject.” Molly Warnock on the art of Joan Mitchell:

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The exhibition poses some general questions. What is painting for? What are the conditions under which it can function as a socially, politically, or culturally formative force—in the past and in the present? Ewa Lajer-Burcharth on Delacroix @metmuseum

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Brice Marden, who drew from Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism in pathbreaking explorations of gesture, line, and color that put him in a category of one, has died at 84.

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BRICE MARDEN (1938–2023)

Brice Marden, who drew from Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism in pathbreaking explorations of gesture, line, and color that put him in a category of one, died August 9 at his…

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“Hopper’s realism is located on the brink of arealism, but it never slips into conventional Surrealism, which would threaten to sabotage the enigmatic by visualizing it.” New York–based artist Thomas Eggerer on “Edward Hopper’s New York” @whitneymuseum .

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Thomas Eggerer on Edward Hopper

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We’re remembering Michael Snow, who died yesterday at 94. In her influential 1971 essay “Toward Snow,” Annette Michelson argued that the artist “opened a new era in the evolution of cinematic style,” expanding viewers’ perception of time and space.

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December is live: Kerry James Marshall, Helen Molesworth, @JohannaFateman , John Waters, Barbara Kruger & more reflect on 2018. @ESchambelan , @TobiHaslett & Emil Ferris on the Year in Monsters. @yoloethics on Sarah Lucas. @GrittyNHL takes the cover

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On Robert Rauschenberg's birthday, here's one of his Artforum covers (Summer 1974) featuring Monogram, 1959.

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Cover Feature | Carroll Dunham on Kerry James Marshall's "Mastry" @mcachicago @metmuseum @MOCAlosangeles

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"Right now so many people who never had a voice are able to connect and build networks."

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Tomorrow night, MoMA will screen Tourmaline’s “Salacia,” about Mary Jones, a Black trans sex worker and outlaw who lived in SoHo in the 1830s. In 2018, Alex Fiahlo spoke to @tourmaliiine & @sashawortzel about their speculative portrait of Marsha P. Johnson

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Ellsworth Kelly in retrospect: @MuseumModernArt chief curator Ann Temkin on Kelly's vision

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The program will cover two thousand arts and culture workers for a span of three years.

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IRELAND TO LAUNCH UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME PROGRAM FOR ARTISTS

Catherine Martin, Ireland’s minister of tourism, culture, arts, Gaeltacht, sport and media, on January 6 initiated an online consultation aimed at soliciting opinions regarding the creation of a...

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Picks | Simon Wu on Salmon Toor at @whitneymuseum , New York

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Belkis Ayón’s first survey in Germany, titled “We’re Here Already,” explores the late artist’s obsession with the myths of Abakuá, an all-male secret society brought to Cuba by enslaved people from Nigeria and Cameroon.

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“If anything firm can be said about Fratino’s practice,” writes @durgapolashi , “it’s how the artist’s soldering gaze fuses soft power with decelerated, beautiful immediacy.” Durga Chew-Bose on the art of Louis Fratino:

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“Hale County This Morning, This Evening” is currently free to stream at @FilmLinc (), which will host a Q&A with @ramellross on 6/24. @NickPinkerton reviewed the film in 2018:

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“That's what capitalism is—price tags on things that shouldn’t have price tags. Why are we putting a price tag on people, why are we putting a price tag on healthcare, on the land itself?” Hannah Black interviews NY State Senate candidate @JabariBrisport

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“I was drawn to the portrayal of diasporic queerness in Toor’s paintings. It feels vivid and full of possibility.” Simon Wu on Salman Toor at the @whitneymuseum :

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“If you really want to see what DRAWING can be—how image, method, and materiality fuse at the molecular level—Charles Wilbert White Jr. makes it crystal clear in some of the finest artworks ever created.” Kerry James Marshall's 2018 Top Ten

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In 2010, Tim Griffin dedicated his final issue as Artforum's editor to “The Museum Revisited,” gauging “just how tenuous our assumptions about art have become.” This week, the entirety of Griffin's feature—nearly thirty essays—is unlocked in the archive:

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“I was interested in the aurora as a representation of what it feels like to fetishize a screen—when you touch a screen and the color starts separating and swirls around like colorful wood grain.” Caitlin Cherry on digital abstraction and Black femininity:

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Painter Françoise Gilot, whose 1964 memoir detailing her tumultuous, decade-long relationship with Pablo Picasso became an international bestseller, has died at age 101.

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Painter Françoise Gilot, whose 1964 memoir detailing her tumultuous, decade-long relationship with Pablo Picasso became an international bestseller, died June 6 in New York at the age of 101. Having...

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Diary | "How do we update archival work for the internet age, and how do we ethically archive work created on the web, particularly when the author might not be easily identifiable?" Maggie Foucault on @rhizome 's Ethics and Archiving the Web conference

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John Waters picks his ten favorite films of the year: #afbestof2016

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On occasion of @MuseumModernArt ’s “Judd” retrospective, we’ve placed several key texts from our archive in front of our paywall, and will highlight some here across the duration of the show. First up, Ann Temkin’s 2004 feature on Judd and preservation:

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Here is a developing list of online resources for organizers and participants in the ongoing work of prison abolition and a future without police, incarceration, or deportation:

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“The first thing I did when I got out of bed after having been sick with the virus for a week was to ask myself: Under what conditions and in which way would life be worth living? The second thing I did was to write a love letter.”—Paul B. Preciado

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French conceptualist Christian Boltanski—a giant of the art world who for over six decades made work about history, memory, absence, and the unknowable mystery of death—died today in Paris at the age of seventy-six.

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CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI (1944–2021)

Renowned French conceptual artist Christian Boltanski died in his hometown of Paris today at the age of seventy-six. Marian Goodman Gallery, which has represented the artist since 1987, announced the…

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News | Classicist Receives Death Threats from Alt-Right over Art Historical Essay

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A link to Glenn O'Brien's decades of writing for Artforum, including his regular column on advertising in the '80s:

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Marlon Riggs has been pigeonholed as a historical figure, inextricably tied in both style and substance to the early 1990s. Yet his filmography retains all its power—and indeed gains new significance—when viewed today, writes @edhalter .

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what / she asked / did words / do / when we use/d them and they / in turn / used us / what did they / demand as / sacrifice / what did the/y seve/r what / did t/hey j/oin / Keguro Macharia ( @keguro_ ) on Ntozake Shange (1948–2018)

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December 2020 is live: John Waters, @perfumegenius , Jo Baer, Yvette Mutumba, @HONEYDIJON , Paul B. Preciado, @nanpansky , Hal Foster & dozens more reflect on a year like no other. Cover by @meldcole .

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“I read that the earliest heart graphic appeared in a Paleolithic cave painting of a mammoth, in the form of a reddish smudge on the mammoth’s shoulder.” Dodie Bellamy on Valentine’s Day

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David Zwirner has announced a partnership with two-year-old literary magazine The Drift that will see the gallery become the lead funder of the triannual publication.

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DAVID ZWIRNER ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH LITERARY MAGAZINE THE DRIFT

David Zwirner today announced a partnership with two-year-old literary magazine The Drift that will see the blue-chip gallery become the lead funder of the triannual publication. Zwirner’s involvem...

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Agnès Varda (1928–2019) on her life and work in a 2017 video interview with Artforum:

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Our April issue is live, and free to all On the cover: John Baldessari, remembered Moyra Davey by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie Aubrey Beardsley by David Rimanelli Cocteau by J. Hoberman Willi Smith by @theprophetpizza Top 10 by @dronecoma +much more+

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These four artists are creating important work that evinces how imprisoned artists use their material constraints, spatial captivity, and “penal time” to deal with the isolation and brutality of incarceration:

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The debate that followed the postponement of “Philip Guston Now” only reinforced Guston’s status as an artist whose work cuts to the heart of issues that continue to animate the art world. In our current issue, five contributors consider Guston's oeuvre:

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Sneak peek of the gatefold cover for our Art + Identity Summer issue, featuring a special project by @BarbaraKruger

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Unlocked this week: The editors celebrate the life and work of the late Brice Marden by revisiting his conversation with Chris Ofili, published in Artforum’s October 2006 issue.

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Florian Hecker remembers Peter Rehberg (1968–2021), “a continually generous well of stories, experiences, and information, [who] accompanied many on their sound-making path right from the start.”

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PETER REHBERG (1968–2021)

Florian Hecker remembers Peter Rehberg

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News | Brooklyn Museum Acquires Ninety-Six Works by Female Artists

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Leonora Carrington's tarot deck enriches our knowledge of the coded symbolism of her work, calling our attention away from her notoriety as a Bretonian femme-enfant and toward the intellectual and spiritual passions of her artistic maturity. — @chloewyma

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Sneak peek of our January cover, featuring Kerry James Marshall, Untitled (detail), 2008. Subscribe and get 70% off:

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Beginning November 15, the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) will require arts institutions to reveal salaries attendant to positions advertised on the AAM job board.

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AAM WILL REQUIRE MUSEUMS TO DISCLOSE SALARIES IN JOB ADS

The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) will require arts institutions to reveal salaries attendant to positions advertised on the AAM job board. The mandate goes into effect November 15, two…

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Tate fused theory, history, and streetwise poetics to form his own inimitable argot, assessing Black art and music not within the framework of the white culture that appropriated and consumed it but in relation to the Black culture that spawned it.

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GREG TATE (C. 1958–2021)

Cultural critic Greg Tate, whose incandescent and incisive writing, particularly on topics surrounding Black American culture, influenced a generation, died today of undisclosed causes at the age of...

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Unlocked this week: Kate Linker’s 1979 essay on Charles Simonds’s emblematic architecture. Linker sheds light on the peculiar timelessness of Simonds’s sculptures, whose material explorations of past and future seek to ground us securely in the present.

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Review | @TinaRiversRyan on Pipilotti Rist @newmuseum , NY closing today

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“It is difficult to understand how, more than forty years after the critical revolution initiated by Edward Said’s ‘Orientalism,’ this artistic tradition can be regarded with such a striking lack of critical skepticism,” writes @nasserrabbat .

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One of the first Chinese artists to establish a career in the United States, Liu explored the delicate relationship between memory and history in haunting, incandescent portraits whose style was once characterized as a kind of “weeping realism.”

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HUNG LIU (1948–2021)

Hung Liu, the pathbreaking Chinese-born American painter who foregrounded the working class, immigrants, and women in haunting, incandescent portraits that mingle Chinese and Western traditions, died...

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In our May/June issue: Paul B. Preciado @yokoono @EileenMyles Andrea Zittel Luc Tuymans Meriem Bennani Jasper Johns Tishan Hsu Ridykeulous @stschrader1 Brian Eno/Peter Saville @carlcraignet & Hal Foster on Donald Judd +so much more, all free to read+

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John Waters, Charlie Fox, Richard Hawkins, Gary Panter, @wkndpartyupdate , and @SarahSquirm pay tribute to Paul Reubens

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Best of 2016 | @dadjaye 's picks for the best art of the year #afbestof2016

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We’re remembering pioneer media scholar Gene Youngblood, who died yesterday at 78. His 1970 book Expanded Cinema “functions as history and augury at once,” writes @thomasbeard . “But the boundary to be broken for Youngblood was, ultimately, metaphysical.”

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Print | John Waters picks his favorite films of 2015

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. @tourmaliiine on pleasure, freedom dreaming, and her new solo show @chapterNY through January 24:

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J. Hoberman on Kenneth Anger: a self-proclaimed magus, a never-closeted queer, a shameless scandalmonger, a sometime Satanist, a difficult person, and, as P. Adams Sitney put it, the “conscious artificer of his own myth.” And the King of Pop.

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KENNETH ANGER (1927–2023)

J. Hoberman on Kenneth Anger (1927–2023)

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The call is clear: Museums must change. In “The Museum Now,” Thomas Crow, Alex Kitnick, Huey Copeland, @MsAllisonGlenn , @Lynne_bias , Hanan Toukan, Adila Laïdi-Hanieh, Tim Griffin, Ralph Lemon, and Sarah Michelson consider how institutions might evolve.

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New York Times co-chief art critic Roberta Smith is retiring after thirteen years in the role, thirty-two years since being hired as a full-time staffer, and thirty-eight years after she began writing for the newspaper, in 1986.

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TOP ART CRITIC ROBERTA SMITH RETIRES FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES

New York Times co-chief art critic Roberta Smith is retiring after thirteen years in the role, thirty-two years since being hired as a full-time staffer, and thirty-eight years after she began...

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“If you stay long enough, you might become aware of your peripheral vision and the difficulty of ever seeing the big picture, the entire picture, the picture of a world in which war is a constant.” Amy Taubin reviews Christian Marclay’s 48 War Movies

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“Many of these pieces convey a sense of being immersed—even lost—in data,” writes Claire Bishop. “For fabulation to have critical currency, it matters which histories are being retrieved and why.”

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INFORMATION OVERLOAD

Claire Bishop on the superabundance of research-based art

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September is here: Gary Indiana on @wkndpartyupdate ; remembering Lutz Bacher; Zehra Jumabhoy on Zarina; the Whitney Biennial & Venice Biennale reviewed; @MelissEAnderson on Lily Tomlin; Institute of Queer Ecology’s Top 10; 40 fall previews +more

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News | Philosopher Julia Kristeva Accused of Being a Secret Agent for Bulgaria

PHILOSOPHER JULIA KRISTEVA ACCUSED OF BEING A SECRET AGENT FOR BULGARIA

Martin Dimitrov of Balkan Insight reports that psychoanalyst and philosopher Julia Kristeva, who was born in Bulgaria, was allegedly an agent for the country’s security body that was active during…

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Fernando Botero, whose whimsical, ballooning figures gained him worldwide acclaim and elevated the global profile of Latin American art, has died at 91.

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FERNANDO BOTERO (1932–2023)

Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero, whose whimsical, ballooning figures gained him worldwide acclaim and elevated the global profile of Latin American art, died in Monaco on September 15...

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In the January issue: Harry Cooper, Rosalind E. Krauss, Alex Kitnick, and @DarbyEnglish on Jasper Johns; @mlobelart on Romare Bearden; @dammirati on three New York exhibitions; @subprimer on Hannah Wilke; @diaz_devan on Drake Carr; + so much more.

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News | Art Critic Jerry Saltz Wins 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism

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JERRY SALTZ WINS 2018 PULITZER PRIZE FOR CRITICISM

Jerry Saltz, who has served as the senior art critic for New York magazine since 2006, has been named the 2018 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism “for a…

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“Just as Warhol mined the medium of silk screen for its inherent flaws, he intuitively understood the computer with a similar sense of sloppily aloof mastery.” @cory_arcangel on Warhol’s Amiga experiments, from the Summer 2014 issue:

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THE WARHOL FILES: ANDY WARHOL’S LONG-LOST COMPUTER GRAPHICS

I HAVE A MAJOR BEEF with the application of physical terms to new media. I was reminded of this recently while reading a headline on the computer-news website CNET: “Facebook…

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Picks | Hayoung Chung on Gina Beavers at Various Small Fires, Seoul:

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News | Decrying Censorship of Aichi Triennale, Artists Demand Removal of their Works

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ARTISTS DECRY CENSORSHIP OF AICHI TRIENNALE, DEMAND REMOVAL OF THEIR WORKS

Tania Bruguera, Javier Téllez, and Pia Camil are among the artists who have signed an open letter condemning the closure of “After Freedom of Expression?,” a special exhibition that was…

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December is live: John Waters, Nicole Eisenman, @johannafateman , @djrupture & 66 more reflect on 2019. + @nanpansky on Roy Cohn, @seeglazek on @jeremyoharris , & David Velasco pens a letter to his friends. On the cover: Nan Goldin

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"As usual, Warhol was ahead of the curve, monetizing social relations a decade or three before anyone was talking neoliberalism." Domenick Ammirati on the Warhol Opening @whitneymuseum and the midterm elections

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“Somehow, the sun never sets in this painting, but also, no matter how long I stare at the horizon, the sun never rises to shed light on the dark slots of the eyeholes and windows.” Chris Ofili on Philip Guston’s “City Limits,” 1969:

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“For more than two decades, Ethiopian-born Mehretu has entwined the histories of art, architecture, and anthropology with pressing contemporary themes such as migration, capitalism, climate change, revolution, and technology.” Naima J. Keith’s Top 10

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News | “Do the Right Thing”: Artists Urge New Museum to Allow Staff to Unionize

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“DO THE RIGHT THING”: ARTISTS URGE NEW MUSEUM TO ALLOW STAFF TO UNIONIZE

More than fifty artists, curators, and educators have signed an open letter in solidarity with the employees of the New Museum in New York who have faced pushback from the…

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“I would recommend everyone see this movie and no one ever make another one like it again.” Carlo McCormick reviews “Make Me Famous,” about art and ambition in the 1980s East Village

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A never-was painter takes Manhattan

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Cortez was known for launching the career of Jean-Michel Basquiat, whom he included in “New York/New Wave,” a rollicking 1981 group show that polarized critics and enchanted the public.

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DIEGO CORTEZ (1946–2021)

Diego Cortez, the filmmaker and curator known for launching the career of Jean-Michel Basquiat, whom he met on a dance floor, has died. Patti Astor, cofounder of New York’s Fun…

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“The artist’s soldering gaze fuses soft power with decelerated, beautiful immediacy. To be enjoyed longingly. To be enjoyed guardedly.” Durga Chew-Bose on the art of Louis Fratino:

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John Singer Sargent’s “Gassed” (1918–19) effectively condenses two experiences that viewers of the day had recently endured, and were to some extent still enduring: war and pandemic.

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Ukraine’s culture minister issued a demand for UNESCO to revoke Russia’s membership after invading Russian forces on Sunday burned the Ivankiv Historical and Local History Museum, which housed dozens of works by Ukrainian folk artist Maria Prymachenko.

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INVASION OF UKRAINE CONTINUES TO SEND RIPPLES ACROSS ART WORLD

As the Russian assault on Ukraine continues, with devastating rocket attacks and a forty-mile long Russian military convoy headed toward Kyiv, its effects are being felt everywhere throughout the...

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Unlocked this week: Dan Cameron’s 1994 essay on the art of Doris Salcedo. In her work, Cameron writes, violence “is transformed into a study, even a parable, of how our own memories bear the trace of losses whose depths we have not begun to fathom.”

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ABSENCE MAKES THE ART: DORIS SALCEDO

DORIS SALCEDO IS ONE OF the several younger artists today who are redirecting sculpture, moving away from more formally oriented approaches toward social and emotional gestures and meanings. Salcedo...

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News | Hundreds of Art Workers Urge Boycott of Zabludowicz Art Trust in Solidarity with Palestine

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HUNDREDS OF ART WORKERS URGE BOYCOTT OF ZABLUDOWICZ ART TRUST IN SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE

A group of artists, activists, curators, writers, and gallerists operating under the name BDZ, or Boycott/Divest Zabludowicz, on Friday published a statement condemning Israel’s recent attacks on Al...

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"It’s embarrassing to admit that I’ve had fantasies of David’s return. But I suspect that I’m not alone." Cynthia Carr on David Wojnarowicz

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Their wins are historic, marking the first time a Black woman has received the prize since the Biennale’s founding 127 years ago.

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SIMONE LEIGH AND SONIA BOYCE WIN VENICE BIENNALE’S TOP HONOR

American sculptor Simone Leigh and British artist Sonia Boyce today were named the recipients of the Golden Lion at the Fifty-Ninth Venice Biennale, with Leigh taking the award for Best…

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News | Alejandro Jodorowsky Speaks Out After El Museo del Barrio Calls Off Retrospective

ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY SPEAKS OUT AFTER EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO CALLS OFF RETROSPECTIVE

Earlier this week, El Museo del Barrio in New York canceled a major retrospective dedicated to the Chilean-born artist Alejandro Jodorowsky after reassessing a controversial interview he gave in...

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“Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration,” has won the NBCC Award for Criticism. @NicoleFleetwoo2 discussed her incisive guide to the multitudinous practices, aesthetics, and conditions of art made by those in captivity in our September issue:

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News | Annette Michelson (1922–2018)

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The Instagenic image of Carrington “surrounded by cats, crystals and talismans” risks smoothing over less assimilable edges of her witchcraft (which purportedly involved exorcisms & blood magic) and her Mephistophelian sense of humor, writes @chloewyma

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