Human Marks: Tattooing in Contemporary Art

Sep 6, 2025

Human Marks: Tattooing in Contemporary Art will make its debut at Joseloff Gallery on September 11, followed by a full-day symposium on September 12.  The exhibition brings together fifteen global contemporary artists who also tattoo to explore how the booming field...

Smithsonian Secretary Responds to Trump’s Museum Crackdown

Sep 5, 2025

Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch sent a letter to the Trump administration responding to a list of demands the White House presented last month as it attempts to assert control over the institution. Bunch’s direct response to the White House comes more than...

Curator Targeted by Trump Tapped to Lead Milwaukee Art Museum 

Sep 5, 2025

Historian and curator Kim Sajet, who recently left her longtime post as director at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) after President Donald Trump claimed he had fired her, will be the next director of the Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM), the institution announced...

A Chicago Artist-Run Gallery’s Last Hurrah Before Forced Closure

Sep 5, 2025

CHICAGO — On a recent Saturday night, I sat in a tiny storefront with a dozen or so others. Three dancers moved with glacial slowness not 10 feet in front of us, illuminated by the streetlights outside. Eerie sounds buzzed throughout the space. “Nether,” by Zachary...

There’s Not Enough of Liverpool in the City’s Biennial

Sep 5, 2025

LIVERPOOL — Bedrock offers a multilayered theme for the 2025 Liverpool Biennial, the United Kingdom’s largest free contemporary art festival. Curator Marie-Anne McQuay notes in a catalog essay that it explores three overlapping strands: The city’s underlying sandstone...

Rosalyn Drexler, Pop Artist and Polymath, Dies at 98

Sep 5, 2025

Polymathic artist Rosalyn Drexler — Pop Art icon, Emmy-winning screenwriter, and one-time wrestler — passed away at her home in New York yesterday, September 3, at age 98. Her death was confirmed by Garth Greenan Gallery, which represented her for a decade. ...