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Visual art, exhibitions, installations, and the artists shaping contemporary culture.
Duchamp at MoMA 2026: The Retrospective That Arrives Exactly on Time
When MoMA opens Marcel Duchamp's first major North American retrospective in over fifty years on April 12, you could be forgiven for...
Helen Frankenthaler at Basel: Correcting a 60-Year Injustice
In 1952, a 23-year-old painter named Helen Frankenthaler laid an unprimed canvas on the floor of her New York studio, thinned her oil paint...
MoMA's Duchamp Retrospective Asks the Only Question That Still Matters
Marcel Duchamp put a urinal in a gallery in 1917 and the art world has been arguing about it ever since. A century later, the Museum of...
The Banksy Exhibition Problem: Who Is Profiting From an Artist Who Refuses to Profit?
There is a Banksy exhibition in your city right now. Or there will be soon. It will have a slick website, a gift shop, an entry fee of...
A Nation of Artists: Philadelphia Mounts the Most Ambitious American Art Survey in Memory
Over one thousand works. Two major institutions. Three centuries of American art. The exhibition opening April 12 across the Philadelphia...
We Buy Souls: RABI Towing's Genius Assault on Everything You Think Art Is
How one LA artist turned telephone poles, voicemails, and the concept of the human soul into the most provocative art project in years....
The Chelsea Exodus: Why New York's Galleries Are Leaving Their Most Famous Neighborhood
For two decades, Chelsea was synonymous with contemporary art in New York. The neighborhood between 10th and 11th Avenues, from 18th to...
Museums Are Showing AI Art Now and Nobody Knows How to Feel About It
The first AI-generated works entered major museum collections quietly. No press conferences, no manifestos, no lines drawn in the sand....
Art Basel 2025: The Year the Art Market Found Its Footing
Four cities. Four fairs. Over five hundred galleries. Hundreds of thousands of visitors. Billions of dollars in transactions. Art Basel's...
Art Basel Miami Beach 2025: An 18 Million Dollar Warhol and the Dawn of Zero 10
The twenty-third edition of Art Basel Miami Beach was its largest ever. 283 galleries from 43 countries filled the convention center in...
Art Basel Paris 2025: 206 Galleries Under the Grand Palais Glass
Art Basel's Paris edition brought 206 galleries from 41 countries into the Grand Palais in late October, including 63 based in France and...
Art Basel Basel 2025: 88,000 Visitors, Millions in Sales, One Katharina Grosse Takeover
The mothership edition of Art Basel returned to Switzerland in June with 289 galleries from 42 countries and 88,000 visitors across six...