School Nixes Exhibition Criticized by Turning Point USA

Oct 17, 2025

A long-running art exhibition of political artwork at East Tennessee State University (ETSU) was not invited to return to the school this year after a wave of right-wing backlash, including from a Tennessee chapter of Turning Point USA. The Fletcher Exhibit of Social...

The Whitney’s Surrealism Show Is a Mindfuck

Oct 17, 2025

“This is not a show of ‘Surrealism’ proper, with a capital ‘S,’” Whitney Museum Director Scott Rothkopf said during the press preview for Sixties Surreal. “It’s a show about the surreal ways of picturing a world that had itself become surreal.” As Rothkopf flicked...

Artists Nationwide Unite Against the Trump Administration

Oct 17, 2025

In early August, a small group of artists and friends gathered in a Brooklyn studio with a shared question in mind: In the wake of the Trump administration’s tightening grip on the arts, what could and should be their role? Out of a series of weekly meetings and...

Altman Siegel Gallery to Close Next Month 

Oct 17, 2025

After nearly 17 years in business, San Francisco gallery Altman Siegel will wind down operations next month. Founder Claudia Altman-Siegel specifically cited the current art market as the reason for the gallery’s closure in an announcement released yesterday,...

Ancient Rock Art Rewrites the Arabian Desert’s History

Oct 17, 2025

A trove of life-sized animal rock engravings recently discovered in the Northern Arabian Desert may indicate that the notoriously arid region was populated around 12,000 years ago, contrary to previous beliefs that the area was once uninhabitable. Published in the...