Opinion Articles | Artnet News https://news.artnet.com The world’s most-read and best trusted art publication Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:07:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.13 https://news.artnet.com/app/themes/artnet-news/assets/img/favicon.ico Opinion Articles | Artnet News https://news.artnet.com 32 32 Painting Has Entered Its Performance Era https://news.artnet.com/art-world/painting-performance-era-art-reveals-2763962 Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:06:25 +0000 https://news.artnet.com/?p=2763962 Painting has joined the attention economy and surrendered the studio to the algorithm.

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]]> Are We Too Reverent of Marcel Duchamp? https://news.artnet.com/art-world/marcel-duchamp-moma-review-2762880 Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:43:04 +0000 https://news.artnet.com/?p=2762880 MoMA's giant exhibition looks for a new reason to return to the 20th century's most-cited artist.

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]]> At 250, America Must Reframe Its Founding Icons https://news.artnet.com/art-world/op-ed-america-founding-icons-2759432 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:01:09 +0000 https://news.artnet.com/?p=2759432 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.

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]]> At the Met, Raphael’s Beauty Has a Dark Side https://news.artnet.com/art-world/raphael-sublime-poetry-review-2759051 Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:12:20 +0000 https://news.artnet.com/?p=2759051 Considering the meanings of “Raphael: Sublime Poetry” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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]]> ‘Reality Decay’ Is at the Root of All the Bad News https://news.artnet.com/art-world/reality-decay-2757167 Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:24:48 +0000 https://news.artnet.com/?p=2757167 Society is breaking along multiple lines due to a single cultural pathology.

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]]> ‘New Humans’ and the Strange End of Contemporary Art as We Know It https://news.artnet.com/art-world/new-humans-new-museum-2755615 Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:34:47 +0000 https://news.artnet.com/?p=2755615 The New Museum reopens with a show that's a disguised manifesto for a post-contemporary museum.

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]]> The Tensions Seething Beneath the Surface of the 2026 Whitney Biennial https://news.artnet.com/art-world/whitney-biennial-2026-trends-2754215 Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:12:44 +0000 https://news.artnet.com/?p=2754215 After a second visit, here are eight more thoughts on the big art show.

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]]> The 2026 Whitney Biennial Just Wants You to Feel Something https://news.artnet.com/art-world/whitney-biennial-2026-review-2750311 Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:33:14 +0000 https://news.artnet.com/?p=2750311 The era of the vibe-ennial.

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]]> Prized Basquiat Sold (Sort of) for a Fortune, Even as Many Artists Remain Stuck in a Hole: Kenny Schachter Reports https://news.artnet.com/art-world/basquiat-the-hole-kenny-schachter-2750517 Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:08:50 +0000 https://news.artnet.com/?p=2750517 And A.I. will make all the precarity worse.

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]]> What Will Define Art in 2026? Key Themes From the Big U.S. Shows https://news.artnet.com/art-world/2026-art-trends-2747369 Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:59:25 +0000 https://news.artnet.com/?p=2747369 Looking at the Whitney Biennial, the Carnegie International, and Greater New York.

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