Opinion Painting Has Entered Its Performance Era Painting has joined the attention economy and surrendered the studio to the algorithm. By Kate Brown, Apr 14, 2026
Art Criticism Are We Too Reverent of Marcel Duchamp? MoMA's giant exhibition looks for a new reason to return to the 20th century's most-cited artist. By Ben Davis, Apr 8, 2026
Opinion At 250, America Must Reframe Its Founding Icons Amid mounting debates over power, dissent, and national identity, a familiar image of Washington is recast to reflect the unresolved tensions at the heart of American democracy. By Karl Kusserow, Apr 5, 2026
Art Criticism At the Met, Raphael’s Beauty Has a Dark Side Considering the meanings of “Raphael: Sublime Poetry” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. By Ben Davis, Mar 30, 2026
Opinion ‘Reality Decay’ Is at the Root of All the Bad News Society is breaking along multiple lines due to a single cultural pathology. By Ben Davis, Mar 23, 2026
Art Criticism ‘New Humans’ and the Strange End of Contemporary Art as We Know It The New Museum reopens with a show that's a disguised manifesto for a post-contemporary museum. By Ben Davis, Mar 19, 2026
Art Criticism The Tensions Seething Beneath the Surface of the 2026 Whitney Biennial After a second visit, here are eight more thoughts on the big art show. By Ben Davis, Mar 17, 2026
Art Criticism The 2026 Whitney Biennial Just Wants You to Feel Something The era of the vibe-ennial. By Ben Davis, Mar 4, 2026
Opinion Prized Basquiat Sold (Sort of) for a Fortune, Even as Many Artists Remain Stuck in a Hole: Kenny Schachter Reports And A.I. will make all the precarity worse. By Kenny Schachter, Mar 4, 2026
Opinion What Will Define Art in 2026? Key Themes From the Big U.S. Shows Looking at the Whitney Biennial, the Carnegie International, and Greater New York. By Ben Davis, Feb 25, 2026
Opinion Prediction Markets Are Eating Culture. My Bet Is that Art Is Next There are signs it's already happening. By Kate Brown, Feb 20, 2026
Opinion Pierre Huyghe’s Newest Work Leans on the Tired Male Gaze The French art star's newest quantum- and A.I.-infused universe is disturbingly conventional. By Eve Rogers, Feb 19, 2026
Opinion How Wifredo Lam Made Surrealism More Surreal Than the Surrealists A close look at 'The Jungle' and the Exquisite Corpse. By Ben Davis, Feb 17, 2026
Opinion Want a Masterclass in How Not to Work With Artists? Ask Google Judy Chicago shares her misadventures with an ambitious public art commission from the tech giant. By Judy Chicago, Feb 8, 2026
Opinion The World Has Too Much Art. What Will Happen to It? The number of galleries and fairs has exploded in recent decades. Now a reckoning has come. By Adam Lindemann, Feb 5, 2026
