The artist’s bioart habitats eerily reflect human environments where sociopolitical and socioeconomic cultural conditions force the illusion of standardization as a natural state.

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02.04.2025

Rebecca Purdum’s Art Beyond Language

Purdum’s layered and scraped-away paintings may resemble aspects of the natural world but they allude to an experience beyond language.

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02.04.2025

Deadly Myanmar Earthquake Devastates Cultural Sites

Amid a rising death toll and worsening human rights crisis, the 7.7-magnitude quake took down mosques, pagodas, monasteries, and other landmarks.

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02.04.2025

New York City Shows We Love Right Now

The exhibitions below, featuring such artists as Deborah-Joyce Holman and Luis Fernando Benedit, ask viewers to spend time with art that’s slower to reveal itself.

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02.04.2025

What Can Art Expose About Us?

Exposure at Ulterior Gallery might not offer the quick answers our ever-shrinking attention spans demand, but much in this show is worth a second view.

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02.04.2025

Artists Meditate on the Rose as a Symbol

The injunction of a group show centered around the multivalent flower is to wander the field and pluck what suits you.

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01.04.2025

You’ve Heard of “The Scream,” Now Get Ready for “The Ick”

Much like the iconic piece, a suite of five “never-before-seen” works tackles big emotions.

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01.04.2025

Museum of the American Proud Boy to Open in DC

The initiative is part of President Trump’s push to restore “American greatness” at the Smithsonian.

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01.04.2025

Trump Withdraws US From Venice Biennale, “Too Diverse”

The president called for “a return to showcasing the great art of this country in a context-free void” and “definitely not in a liberal European swamp.”

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01.04.2025

“Fasc-isms” Announced as This Year’s Met Gala Theme

An accompanying exhibition at the Costume Institute aims to diversify our understanding of the movement, emphasizing that “fascists are not a monolith.”

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01.04.2025

Archeologists Unearth Fresco Predicting the Coming of “Saint Luigi”

The painting depicts a handsome figure with thickset brows and the Latin words “Mora, Negare, Deponere” (“Delay, Deny, Depose.”)

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01.04.2025

Brooklyn Museum Announces “Pay What We Wish” Admissions

The policy is the museum’s newest attempt to shift its financial burden onto its lowest-ranking staff and the public.

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01.04.2025

Netflix Releases New Reality TV Spinoff Art Is Blind

The show invites participants to fall in love with a work of art without ever seeing it.

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01.04.2025

Majority of Artists Only Read Reviews of Their Own Work, Survey Finds

Some respondents added that they will occasionally hate-read a negative review of an artist they vehemently dislike, which “just hits different.”

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31.03.2025

10 Shows to See in Los Angeles, April 2025

Madam X’s spiritual diagrams, Umar Rashid curates Robert Colescott, Carole Caroompas’s anti-hero journey, 50 years of L.A. Louver, and more.

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31.03.2025

Deborah-Joyce Holman’s Quietly Radical Black Femininity

Through abstraction and nonlinearity, Holman invests in cinematic practices that unseat “spectacle” as the prominent mode of Black representation.

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31.03.2025

The Mughal Empire’s Paradise on Earth

An exhibition showcases the sophisticated cultural language developed in the Indian subcontinent from around 1560 to 1660 across the reign of three emperors.

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29.03.2025

The World’s Biggest Print Fair Returns With Surprises

At once overwhelming and exhilarating, the IFPDA show in New York City is a trip through the gallerina looking-glass of prints from around the globe.

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29.03.2025

Pratt’s 2025 Fine Arts MFA Thesis Exhibitions, on View in the Brooklyn Navy Yard

Pratt Fine Arts is delighted to invite visitors to a two-part show curated by Dejá Belardo at Dock 72 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

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29.03.2025

Brooklyn’s First Print Fair Puts Community Over Commercialism

At Powerhouse Arts in Gowanus, independent shops, galleries, and high-profile publishers come together in shared passion for the craft and the connection it elicits.

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29.03.2025

Christophe Cherix Named MoMA’s New Director

The museum’s longtime prints and drawings curator will take over from Glenn Lowry, whose tenure was marked by controversy.

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29.03.2025

Trump Whitewashes History in New Smithsonian Executive Order

Among other disturbing and demonstrably false distortions, the mandate suggests that race is a “biological reality” — a tenet of racist pseudoscientific beliefs.

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29.03.2025

What to Look for When Selecting a Print

We asked the experts what first-time collectors should keep in mind when shopping for lithographs, screenprints, and more.

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28.03.2025

Celia Paul Paints Her Place in the World

A new monograph brings the artist’s life into focus as she returns to the same subjects again and again: the women in her family, the British Museum, and the sea.

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28.03.2025

From the River to the Bay Calls for Art as Resistance

While other Bay Area spaces have silenced Palestinian artists or remained silent themselves, a show at SOMArts Cultural Center asks visitors to take a stand.

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28.03.2025

RISD Shuts Down Students’ Pro-Palestine Art Show

The school said it would relocate the exhibition, which was on view in a public cafe, to a private building in order to “uphold safety.”

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28.03.2025

A View From the Easel

“My studio has tile flooring, which is forgiving when it comes to messes.”

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28.03.2025

Palestinian Artist Dorgham Qreiqea Killed in Israeli Airstrike

The muralist and oil painter, one of hundreds killed in Israel’s renewed attacks, is also remembered for his devotion to helping the children of Gaza.

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28.03.2025

Shape Your Future in the Art World With Sotheby’s Institute of Art’s Online Certificate

Earn your certification in Art Business with a flexible, self-paced online program.

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28.03.2025

Required Reading

This week: The forgotten Bloomsbury artist, Margo Jefferson’s incisive criticism, Elon Musk’s daughter speaks out, the benefits of thinking about aliens, mental health coffees, and more.

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28.03.2025

Klimt Portrait of West African Prince Resurfaces at Art Fair

The painting, hidden away in a private collection for decades, captures a dark side of European colonial history.

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27.03.2025

A Glimpse of Eternity at the Carnegie Museum’s Hall of Architecture

The assembling of these plaster casts of masterpieces more than a century ago must be understood as a work of art in its own right, a bizarre and beautiful triumph.

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27.03.2025

Colorado Legislature Bows to Trump’s Demands to Remove “Distorted” Portrait

The president said the painting, which had hung in the state’s capitol since 2019, was “truly the worst.”

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27.03.2025

Archaeologists Reconstruct the Scents of Ancient Mummification

A new study underscores the ubiquity of pleasant smells attached to commonly displayed objects, like sarcophagi and wrappings used in mummified remains.

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27.03.2025

Australian University Scraps Show Featuring Work of Lebanese-Born Artist

Khaled Sabsabi was dropped from representing the Australian pavilion at the Venice Biennale last month on the basis of allegations about his work.

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27.03.2025

Artists Look to Sufism for Echoes of the Divine

From qawwali nights in Brooklyn to diasporic sculptors, contemporary artists are expanding and remixing Sufi traditions while honoring their roots.

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27.03.2025

A Brazilian Artist’s Intergalactic Wool Paintings

In “A Head Full of Planets,” Madalena Santos Reinbolt’s art celebrates her own identity and homeland, despite her marginalized status as a Black woman from rural Brazil.

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27.03.2025

NYU Steinhardt Opens 2025 MFA Thesis Exhibitions

Taking place at 80WSE Gallery in New York’s Greenwich Village, the shows are on view starting April 2.

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Dozens of Museum Agency Workers Put on Leave Amid Trump Overhaul

LA Artist Joe Goode, Who Put His Own Spin on Pop Art, Dies at 87

Luis Fernando Benedit Exposed the Politics of World-Making

Rebecca Purdum’s Art Beyond Language

Deadly Myanmar Earthquake Devastates Cultural Sites

New York City Shows We Love Right Now

What Can Art Expose About Us?

Artists Meditate on the Rose as a Symbol

You’ve Heard of “The Scream,” Now Get Ready for “The Ick”

Museum of the American Proud Boy to Open in DC

Trump Withdraws US From Venice Biennale, “Too Diverse”

“Fasc-isms” Announced as This Year’s Met Gala Theme

Archeologists Unearth Fresco Predicting the Coming of “Saint Luigi”

Brooklyn Museum Announces “Pay What We Wish” Admissions

Netflix Releases New Reality TV Spinoff Art Is Blind

Majority of Artists Only Read Reviews of Their Own Work, Survey Finds

10 Shows to See in Los Angeles, April 2025

Deborah-Joyce Holman’s Quietly Radical Black Femininity

The Mughal Empire’s Paradise on Earth

The World’s Biggest Print Fair Returns With Surprises

Pratt’s 2025 Fine Arts MFA Thesis Exhibitions, on View in the Brooklyn Navy Yard

Brooklyn’s First Print Fair Puts Community Over Commercialism

Christophe Cherix Named MoMA’s New Director

Trump Whitewashes History in New Smithsonian Executive Order

What to Look for When Selecting a Print

Celia Paul Paints Her Place in the World

From the River to the Bay Calls for Art as Resistance

RISD Shuts Down Students’ Pro-Palestine Art Show

A View From the Easel

Palestinian Artist Dorgham Qreiqea Killed in Israeli Airstrike

Shape Your Future in the Art World With Sotheby’s Institute of Art’s Online Certificate

Required Reading

Klimt Portrait of West African Prince Resurfaces at Art Fair

A Glimpse of Eternity at the Carnegie Museum’s Hall of Architecture

Colorado Legislature Bows to Trump’s Demands to Remove “Distorted” Portrait

Archaeologists Reconstruct the Scents of Ancient Mummification

Australian University Scraps Show Featuring Work of Lebanese-Born Artist

Artists Look to Sufism for Echoes of the Divine

A Brazilian Artist’s Intergalactic Wool Paintings

NYU Steinhardt Opens 2025 MFA Thesis Exhibitions

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