Sep 26, 2025
In many parts of rural America, the population keeps shrinking. Low birth rates, aging residents, and evolving or shuttering industries pair with a trend of younger people migrating to metro areas for jobs and more diverse cultural amenities. As of 2022, the U.S....
Sep 26, 2025
When surveillance and censorship abound in the name of security, the arts tend to serve as the proverbial “canary in the coal mine,” signaling the suffocating effects of repression as it takes hold. The latest data, then, should be cause for alarm: 70% of the world’s...
Sep 26, 2025
London’s National Gallery, home of Western masterpieces from the 13th to early 20th centuries, will build a new wing to accommodate an “expanded collection” with an infusion of £375 million (~$500 million) in private donations. The project marks the most...
Sep 26, 2025
Albert C. Barnes, c. 1920–25 (image via the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress, no known restrictions on publication) The quality and quantity of art at Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation dazzle. West African masks, Diné jewelry, and decorative...
Sep 26, 2025
‣ Florence has long been regarded as the birthplace of the Renaissance, but what influence did earlier Byzantine and Eastern European art have on the movement? Martin Gayford explains for the Spectator: Like quite a few art-historical questions, it goes back to...
Sep 26, 2025
Welcome to the 304th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists relish their studio as a safe haven and allow the work to dictate its own evolution. Want to take part? Check out our submission...
Sep 26, 2025
Pratt Manhattan Gallery’s latest exhibition, In Our Time: Eleven Artists + W.E.B. Du Bois, is a group show that brings together a diverse roster of leading contemporary artists, from Derrick Adams to Carrie Mae Weems to Theaster Gates. The art on view responds to the...
Sep 26, 2025
Under the helm of museum director Blanca de la Torre, the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (IVAM) introduces a new phase this autumn with two new exhibitions highlighting international artists. With this change in direction, the museum aims to recover its founding...
Sep 26, 2025
Just outside Brussels, an ancient woodland known as the Sonian Forest spans almost 11,000 acres and includes some of the world’s most impressive beech groves. For photographer Frédéric Demeuse, who grew up in Belgium’s capital, it’s a familiar yet...
Sep 25, 2025
© Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation Amélie Ravalec’s new book explores the under-reported movement that emerged from the atomic ashes to transform Japan’s creative culture. In the rubble of post-war Japan, the first nation in history to be scarred by nuclear...