Art Criticism Period Rooms Usually Glorify the Aristocracy. With Its New Afrofuturist Room, the Met’s Approach Is Different The room, which brings together contemporary art and historic works that evoke Seneca Village, is a vision of loss, hope, and imagination. By Darla Migan, Nov 14, 2021
Art Criticism The New Museum’s Muted 2021 Triennial Reflects Culture’s Inward Turn, and Perhaps Its Exhaustion There's scarcely a digital presence in this year's show. By Ben Davis, Nov 8, 2021
Op-Ed Artists Can Help Us Imagine a New Relationship with the Earth. That’s Why We Need Their Voices at COP26 Art and science are partners in this urgent conversation. By Christopher Smith, Nov 8, 2021
Curiosities Can a Talking Rousseau Save Facebook? Why Does This Billionaire Think He’s Le Corbusier? + Other Questions I Have About This Week’s Art News Plus, the coin collecting community is upended by a "physical Bitcoin." By Ben Davis, Nov 8, 2021
Op-Ed If You Want to Support the Arts in America, Invest in the South. Here’s Why A person living in the South sees $1 of arts philanthropy for every $4 someone in the Northeast gets. That's a problem. By Susie Surkamer & Joy Young, Nov 2, 2021
Curiosities Why Did Lindsay Lohan’s Art Spark Furries’ Fury? What Is the ‘Shadowman Experience’? + More Questions I Have About the Week’s Art News Plus, what is Ted Lasso's take on the rise of African art? By Ben Davis, Nov 1, 2021
Know Your Rights Am I Entitled to a Payday If My Art Has Been Turned Into a Pretty Popular Gif? + Other Artists’-Rights Questions, Answered Plus, how can I make NFTs of work in my local museum without breaking the rules? And am I allowed to make a TV show about Jackson Pollock? By Katarina Feder, Oct 27, 2021
Curiosities What Does the Basketball World Want With Warhol’s Pee? Did Art Just Die at Giza’s Pyramids? + Other Questions I Have About the Week’s Art News Plus, is Buzzfeed's Buzzy the Robot art's next big thing? By Ben Davis, Oct 26, 2021
Curiosities Someone Paid $25 Mil for Banksy Leftovers? Is This the HAL 9000 of Museums? + Other Questions I Have About the Week’s Art News Plus, is October Mist the color to cure all your woes? By Ben Davis, Oct 19, 2021
Curiosities What’s With All the Hitler NFTs? Will Robots Put Street Artists Out of Work? + Other Questions I Have About The Week’s Art News Thoughts on some dumb NFTs, IP dilemmas in the art world and out, and a weird way to sell cashmere sweaters. By Ben Davis, Oct 13, 2021
Art Criticism Roxane Gay on How Artist Calida Rawles Shows Us a New, and More Humane, Way of Bearing Witness The writer explores the significance Rawles's painting "High Tide, Heavy Armor." By Roxane Gay, Oct 12, 2021
Art Criticism If You Don’t Think Jasper Johns Can Still Surprise You, Wait Until You Get to the End of This Review The Whitney and the Philadelphia museums' vast Johns survey is a chance to figure out why he works the way he does, and what it means now. By Ben Davis, Oct 12, 2021
Op-Ed Hans Ulrich Obrist on a Radically Utopian Museum Model That Has Yet to Be Realized—and Why It’s Worth Pursuing Obrist reflects on the legacy of the philosopher Édouard Glissant, whose unrealized ideas offer a path for the future. By Hans Ulrich Obrist, Oct 10, 2021
Curiosities Is There Anything Mr and Mrs Doodle Can’t Do? Is the Guy Who Stole $84K as Art a Hero? + Other Questions I Have About the Week’s Art News Plus, remember that time the Met turned away Brian De Palma? By Ben Davis, Oct 4, 2021
Art Criticism The 34th São Paulo Biennial Has Spread Out, Slowed Down, and Opened Itself Up—But Some Old Barriers Remain “Though It’s Dark, Still I Sing” has been rethought to respond to the pandemic and the political moment. By Tiago Gualberto, Sep 30, 2021
