12 Art Books to Read This Fall

Sep 19, 2025

Autumn, in all its crisp color, has long been a muse for artists and poets — and for good reason. The shorter days and early darkness often cast a spell, encouraging us to spend more time indoors and chip away at our to-be-read piles. These 12 new and forthcoming art...

Fire Tears Through Iconic Artist Building in Brooklyn 

Sep 19, 2025

One of Brooklyn’s most iconic artist studio buildings is in a precarious state after a five-alarm fire ravaged the 155-year-old warehouse in Red Hook late Wednesday night into Thursday morning. Smoke filled the third floor of 481 Van Brunt Street at 11:35pm on...

Pussy Riot Members Sentenced to Russian Prison in Absentia

Sep 19, 2025

A Moscow court has sentenced five members of the exiled feminist art collective Pussy Riot to prison in absentia on charges relating to anti-war protest and performances critical of Vladimir Putin’s regime. The jail terms delivered by Judge Evgeniya Nikolaeva of...

A Neo-Impressionism Show for the One Percent

Sep 19, 2025

LONDON — What does socialism look like when earnestly perpetuated by extraordinarily wealthy benefactors sorely lacking in self-awareness? One answer might be found in Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists at the National Gallery. This can...

For Lygia Clark, Art Was a Means of Survival

Sep 19, 2025

BERLIN — Lygia Clark’s current retrospective at the Neue Nationalgalerie makes a compelling argument that art, therapy, and politics are far more intimately related than they are often discussed as being. Clark was a pivotal member of the Neo-concretists, a group of...

A View From the Easel

Sep 19, 2025

Welcome to the 303rd installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists bring their beloved pets into the studio and make work inspired by the environments they inhabit, both natural and built. Want to take...

Required Reading

Sep 19, 2025

‣ Ahead of the Studio Museum in Harlem’s reopening this November, Salamishah Tillet asked artists, curators, and educators about the institution’s immense impact on their careers and lives in Harper’s Bazaar: Rashida Bumbray (independent...