Rachel Harrison’s book Hold Still, Henry! (2025) is published by Rookie Books. Rookie Books Rachel Harrison’s recent show “The Friedmann Equations,” at New York’s Greene Naftali gallery, was a highlight of 2025. To try to break it down briefly, it was classic Harrison: brainy, oblique, and funny. The show’s title alluded to mathematical formulas relating …
Artist Briony Godivala shows off her QR code tattoo for “The Inked Link.” Courtesy Briony Godivala In 1974, Marina Abramovic placed an assortment of items on a table. A rose, a gun, a knife, a feather, a pot of honey, a whip, and so on. Objects that could bring pleasure or pain. The audience was …
Colin Bliss and Greta Scheing at “home” in Providence Place Mall. Michael Townsend/mTuckman Media Secret Mall Apartment, the 2024 documentary film recounting the story of several artists who secretly lived inside a Providence mall for four years, released on Netflix Friday. Originally released in theaters in last March, becoming one of the year’s hit documentaries, …
Gustav Klimt, Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, 1914–1916 Christie’s. On the night of November 21, 2025, the hammer came down after 20 minutes of heated bidding on Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer (1914–16), the marquee lot at Sotheby’s New York auction house that evening. Expectations were high, considering that the painting was one of only …
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MacKenzie Thomas performs her four-hour show “I Said What I Said.” Courtesy of MacKenzie Thomas I saw a work this past week that I did not know how to critique. The premise of the performance was simple: MacKenzie Thomas, an internet personality with half a million followers across TikTok and Instagram, would read aloud everything …
Sandra Mujinga at the Park Avenue Armory, where she unveiled a new performance this past November. Photo Christopher Garcia Valle/ARTnews About a decade ago, when Sandra Mujinga visited Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, she relished her time people watching, as travelers are wont to do. But Mujinga was not exactly …
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Granda Moses (Anna Mary Robertson) at work on one of her paintings at age 95, Eagle Bridge, New York, September 1955 Getty Images. “Her primitive paintings captured the spirit and preserved the scene of a vanishing countryside.” So reads the epitaph of American artist Grandma Moses (aka Anna Mary Robertson Moses), whose lifetime remarkably stretched …
Lee Friedlander, New York State, 1965. ©Lee Friedlander/Fraenkel Gallery, Courtesy Eakins Press Foundation “Whether or not you’ve celebrated Christmas at any point over the past seventy years—roughly the period covered by these photographs—you have no doubt encountered some of the things Lee Friedlander shows us here.” So begins the afterward to Lee Friedlander: Christmas, a …
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Editor’s note: This story is an edition of Link Rot, a bi-weekly column by Shanti Escalante-De Mattei that explores the intersections of art, technology, and the internet. It’s the end of the year. You know what that means: a list. For this end-of-year edition of LinkRot, I asked artists, curators, gallerists, critics, and technologists to pick the …
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Erythemis simplicicollis dragonfly wing tip. ©Michael Benson Nanocosmos: Journeys in Electron Space is an otherworldly collection of images from a mysterious realm of the extremely small scale. With help from powerful scanning electron microscope (SEM) technologies that he started working with at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), artist Michael Benson went on a years-long …
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