Alfred Stieglitz, Fountain by R. Mutt, 1917, published in The Blind Man (No. 2), edited by Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, and Beatrice Wood, May 1917 Philadelphia Museum of Art When does something become a work of art? A canvas once it’s been painted? A block of marble once it’s been carved? For Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), …
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Marcel Duchamp with The Large Glass (1915–1923), Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1965 Mark Kauffman/Getty Images. More than any of his early modernist contemporaries, Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) has had a huge impact on art throughout the last century into our own. He pioneered a cerebral, ironic practice whose DNA is still apparent in works like Maurizio …
Josh Kline. Photo Isabel Asha Penzlien/©Josh Kline/Courtesy Lisson Gallery In 2011, Andrea Fraser wrote that “what has been good for the art world has been disastrous for the rest of the world.” Fifteen years on, Fraser’s words still ring true. But finding the words for why is not always so easy, and maybe that is …
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Exhibition view of “New Humans: Memories of the Future” at the. New Museum, New York. Hito Steyerl’s 2025 video work “Mechanical Kurds” plays in the back. Courtesy New Museum/Photo Dario Lasagni In the beginning, there was a lot of work to do. In the Mesopotamian creation myth, the Anunnaki, the Big Gods, and the Igigi, …
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Ming Wong in his studio during his residency at the National Gallery in London. ©The National Gallery In the hushed, reverent galleries of the National Gallery in London, saints usually suffer in silence. Not so in the hands of Ming Wong, who was given unparalleled access to the museum’s collection of European masterpieces during a …
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Ariana Papademetropoulos in her studio, with Snow White and No Dwarves (2026). Photo Cameron McCool; Art: ©Ariana Papademetropoulos/Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac, London · Paris · Salzburg · Milan · Seoul Ariana Papademetropoulos’s latest exhibition, titled “Glass Slipper,” is more than a fairy tale. Currently on view through April 11 at Thaddaeus Ropac’s space in Paris, the …
François-Xavier Gbré. Courtesy Nuits Balnéaires “What I try to do with my work is to fill the many gaps in history, and to tell history in different ways,” said artist François-Xavier Gbré, speaking via a video call. It was fitting that Gbré spoke these words, since so much information is still transmitted orally from older …
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Sky Hopinka, Red Metal Dust, 2026, installation view, at Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia. Courtesy the Barnes Foundation Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, an ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world. Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) has spent the last year and a half photographing the …
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Precious Okoyomon with their installation Everything wants to kill you and you should be afraid (2026), now on view in the Whitney Biennial. Photo Christopher Garcia Valle for ARTnews Earlier this month, the Whitney Biennial went on view to the usual amount of fanfare—but one work was notably missing from the show. That work, a …
Raphael, The Virgin and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist in a Landscape (Alba Madonna) (c. 1509–11) Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The Italian Renaissance artist Raphael may have been called the “prince of painters,” but his masterful drawings were his calling card, even from a young age. We …
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