Bringing New Life to Empty Subway Shops

A dino store, dance parties, radio and visual art are set up underground, building community in free space from the M.T.A.

Mount Rushmore Is Not My Monument

For a century, our connection to the Black Hills has been disrupted by this eyesore and those who flock to a place that we see as our relative, our grandfather and grandmother.

Maurizio Cattelan’s Gold Toilet Can Soon Be Yours

“America” (2016) will lead Sotheby's “The Now and Contemporary” evening sale on November 18.

The Darkness of Greuze’s Doe-Eyed Children

Where an exhibition’s focus on childhood becomes outright problematic is the show’s bizarre conclusion, which considers spoiled innocence.

100 Assignments From Nayland Blake

While ­these assignments ­will not turn someone ­else into me, they ­will provide the practitioner with a path to the deviations within themselves.

Meet the Aesthetica ArtPrize Shortlist: Rayvenn D’Clark

Rayvenn Shaleigha D’Clarke’s practice stems from a single observation: that “monuments and public sculptures are never of women of colour.” The artist’s work challenges historical… The post Meet the...

Abstracted Visions:Photographers to Know

Spotlighting five contemporary creatives, previously featured in Aesthetica, who are using microscopes, mirrors, paper and more to reimagine photography. The post Abstracted Visions:<br>Photographers...

Joy Gregory:A Major Retrospective

“You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.” It’s an adage that dates back to 1666, and today, is used in households across the world… The post Joy Gregory:<br>A Major Retrospective appeared first...

MPB: The Next Shot Creative Legacies

Today we're announcing the four filmmakers who are part of MPB: The Next Shot, a project which sees creatives share the stories behind their cameras. The post MPB: The Next Shot <br> Creative...

Material Matters

GIVEN PRESIDENT TRUMP’S recent attempts to undermine the work of archives and libraries, never in my lifetime has the work of archivists, librarians, library scientists, and “data hoarders” seemed more urgent. The same might be said of the work of those conservators who have much to teach us about preparing the present for the future. […]

Robert Wilson (1941–2025)

I REMEMBER BOB IN SCENES.  In the 1970s I went to a lot of very long Bob Wilson performances, among them the legendary Deafman Glance (1970) and A Letter for Queen Victoria (1974). They lasted for hours; some were all night. I often watched from the top of the nosebleed balcony—sometimes wrapp­ed in a sleeping […]

Recursive Narratives

On Geeta Kapur’s Speech Acts

Spinning Yarns

On the 2025 Bukhara Biennial and soft power in Uzbekistan

Flipping Coins

On Mitchell F. Chan’s “Zantar” games

X Zhu-Nowell

X ZHU-NOWELL was appointed executive director and chief curator of Shanghai’s Rockbund Art Museum (RAM) in January 2025, after serving as its artistic director since 2023. From 2014 to 2021, they were an assistant curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, where they commissioned “Wu Tsang: Anthem,” 2021, and contributed to exhibitions […]

Rosemarie Trockel

Electronic Refractions

On Tom Lloyd and the Studio Museum in Harlem

Fugitive Processes: The Materiality of Photography

IN THE FOLLOWING PAGES, Artforum turns its sights on photography’s material futures. Depending on whom you ask, photography is either thriving or at an existential crossroads. “The possibility of producing new C-type prints has ended,” Thomas Struth declared to us in his Berlin studio this year. Last October, Düsseldorf’s Grieger—the genre-defining lab where Struth’s “Museum […]

The Future of Photography: A Roundtable

Moderated By Pablo Larios PABLO LARIOS: Thomas, when I stopped by your studio this past spring, I saw the new, highly tactile pieces you were making. You were working directly on copper plates, preparing layers of paint and sanding their surfaces by hand before printing on them. Was this a new direction for you? THOMAS […]

Thomas Demand

Melonen, 2025I was reminded of Henri Matisse’s The Moroccans, 1915–16, after I stumbled upon a picture of fake fruits used to smuggle drugs. That source image exemplifies the concept of a fake used as evidence in a public photograph. I imagined artistically untrained workers trying to make truckloads of these handmade melonesque balls. At the […]

Dionne Lee

ENCOMPASSING VARIOUS MEDIA, including photography, collage, and video, my practice explores themes of power, survival, and personal history in relation to the American landscape. As I work with images, my acts of extracting, transforming, and reconfiguring them are aimed at developing new ways of seeing and of searching for meaning within abstraction. In the series […]

Investigators Believe Oakland Museum of California Heist Was ‘Crime of Opportunity, Not a Targeted Theft’

More than 1,000 objects were stolen from the museum’s collection earlier this month.

Alison Knowles, the First Woman of Fluxus, Dies at 92

“People don’t touch art,” she once said. “That’s one of the problems.”

Princeton’s New Museum Feels Intimate Despite Its Overwhelming Size

After an almost six-year hiatus, the new 146,000-square-foot complex opens its doors to the public.