In the early hours of June 28, 1969, the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York’s Greenwich Village. What came next would change the course of history. Read More
On MoMA’s collection rehang, CAPTC, Mary Beth Edelson, Vikky Alexander, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Graham Anderson, Jason Loebs, Raymond Pettibon, A. K. Burns, and more Read More
Over the past two years, the commercial art world in New York has undergone profound changes, with numerous galleries relocating and others closing. Tonight, word came of undoubtedly the biggest shift yet, with dealer Andrea Rosen, a 27-year stalwart of … Read More
Bentonville, Arkansas’s Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announced today that it has acquired Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s “Untitled” (L.A.), 1991, which sold last week at Christie’s postwar and contemporary evening sale for $7,669,000, a record for the late artist.The piece involves an ideal … Read More
Museums are fond of publishing tomes that celebrate their illustrious histories. These days, galleries are getting in on the game. But New York dealer Andrea Rosen’s decision to publish, this month, a boxed set of 26 books celebrating her gallery’s … Read More
Scholars and artists are trying to reclaim Kahlo’s art from the cult of personality that has surrounded her since her death. A new exhibition at the MCA in Chicago aims to put the emphasis back on her painting by placing it in the context of work being made today Read More
The Artist Wasn’t Present: On MoMA’s Fumbled First Showing of Black American Art
From the Poor Image to Poetic Cinema: A Ranking of 20 Hito Steyerl Videos 
From the Archives: A Look at Chicago’s Budding Art Scene, in 1955, by Museum Pioneer Peter Selz