Mindy Seu performs her lecture “A Sexual History of the Internet.” Max Lakner Editor’s note: This story is the latest edition of Link Rot, a new column by Shanti Escalante-De Mattei that explores the intersections of art, technology, and the internet. Now that I’ve captured your attention, please buy my book. Or my skin cream. Or my …
The Studio Museum in Harlem’s new galleries. Photo Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images As New York museums go, the Studio Museum in Harlem does not hold the largest collection, or even the widest-reaching one, but this has always been a feature, not a bug. First opened in 1968, the museum is focused specifically on …
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Installation view of “View Finding: Selections from the Walther Collection,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 28, 2025–May 3, 2026 Hyla Skopitz Last May the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced that photography collector Artur Walther, via his Walther Family Foundation, had made a promised gift to the museum of more than …
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Ayoung Kim. Photo Kanghyuk (snakepool)/Courtesy the artist and Gallery Hyundai Perhaps more than any other artwork made during the 2020s, Ayoung Kim’s video Delivery Dancer’s Sphere (2022) captures the dizzying, unsettled quality that characterized so much of the world under Covid-induced lockdown. But this is not a video about isolation or illness, or even a …
Eugène Delacroix Liberty Leading the People, 1830 Wikimedia Commons. There’s perhaps no more stirring an example of political art than Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863). Measuring roughly 8½ by 10½ feet, the painting was completed in 1830 to celebrate France’s July Revolution of the same year, which overthrew the Bourbon monarch, Charles …
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Naotaka Hiro. Christopher Garcia Valle/ARTnews Seven years ago, Naotaka Hiro was at the airport in Los Angeles when he received a harrowing text from his wife. “There’s someone underneath the house,” she wrote. “Someone’s coughing.” He abruptly canceled his flight to Japan and rushed home to his panicked spouse. Hiro ventured into the crawlspace beneath …
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“Creativity is about sticking with your guns and spending a lot of time at the table,” Sachs said. Mario Sorrenti Earlier this month, during Frieze Week, Tom Sachs was dishing out espressos and 86-proof mezcal from behind a bar at Thaddaeus Ropac’s London outpost on Dover Street. The American artist was launching his new show, …
Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper, c. 1495–1498 Wikimedia Commons. Second only to the Mona Lisa as Leonardo da Vinci’s most stupendous achievement, The Last Supper (1495–98) is almost as famous for its degraded state as it is for its enduring power. With details barely readable today, it’s a ghost of its original self, suspended in …
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Julia Scher, Danger Dirty Data (1991), installation view of the show “I’ll be Gentle,” Pat Hearn Gallery, New York City. © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025, courtesy of the artist and Esther Schipper Berlin/Paris/Seoul In 2016, Josh Kline debuted “Unemployment,” a series that explored mass joblessness brought on by technology and automation, and the potential end …
Portrait ofCelia Paul, 2025. © Gautier Deblonde. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro The British artist Celia Paul, known for her moody figurative paintings that often draw from her life, has had numerous solo exhibitions at galleries and museums over the past decade—none of them in New York, save for a 2015 show at Gallery …
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