The writerdiscuss her theatrical debut, shares a museum's wild misuse of her ideas, and teases her next book.

Her work, on view at the Studio Museum, feels both familiar and transcendent.

As Donald Trump remakes America 250 into a pageant of authoritarian nationalism, museums mount tepid replies.

His fame as the inventor of the readymade has often eclipsed his aesthetic beginnings

Her legacy is both fascinating and unsettling.

The Ecuadorian artist evokes the ages-old legacy of ceramics in the Americas.

These books enlist art as a portal to another world: the culture wars of the 1980s, modernist Parisian salons, or the Weimar Republic.

A writer returns home to a city with weirdness to share.

This was the steepest downside of the
20th-century newspaper critic: While the writer’s career received the kind of support that enabled a real relationship with an artistic community, that community was limited to one perspective.

A new documentary oscillates between circumventing narrative traps and walking right into them.

Her appetite for risk led her to perform hoisted 128 feet up in the air by a crane.

Her self-portraits transition from photography to canvas.

A new wave of systems art translates abstract infrastructure into sensible scales.

Pérez asks: what does Gen Z want?

Authors take on the lives of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.

See a survey of essential openings and other kinds of offerings in the art world.

She resists the “en-slick-ification” of painting by literally showing its seams.

Kahlo and Rivera are reunited on the day of the dead.

Two new books ask what Johannes Vermeer means today—and come up with different answers.

New works find resonance in an underappreciated Surrealist.

“Minor Keys” is the first biennial that’s made me find a dark corner to cry in.

The Polish artist's new series follows on from another currently featuring in the New Museum's "New Humans" show.

Henrike Naumann's German Pavilion is a star of the show.

The artist, who died in February, is remembered by the deputy director of SculptureCenter.

The artist has made mesmeric films for cinema, television, and exhibitions for more than 40 years.

The book confronts everything from UFOs to psyops with surprising lucidity.

Chang turned pennies into cubes and mastered Game Boy Tetris.

Happy park-reading (or porch-reading) season to those who celebrate!

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The author, Julia Langbein, calls medieval art the “teenager of art history.”