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Visual Arts
New York Returns 36 Looted Antiquities to Syria, Including Palmyra Relief
Manhattan investigators returned 36 antiquities worth over $5 million to Syria, including a 1,000-pound Palmyra relief, while seizing 13 more pieces from the Met.
AI-Designed Mural Draws Backlash in Banksy's Bristol
An AI-generated vinyl mural in Banksy's hometown flubs Mild Mild West and local landmarks, prompting artists to call it theft of Bristol's creative i…
After Five Years, Afghan Artist Aziz Hazara Ships Bagram's Trash to New York
Aziz Hazara spent five years navigating sanctions and shell companies to ship US military waste from Bagram Air Base to SculptureCenter, New York, on…
Adam Pendleton Is Painting the White Cube Black
Adam Pendleton's new canvas 'The Door (A Days Painting),' dated 2026, is headed to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, extending a long museum-artist…
Stephen Antonakos Turned His SoHo Home Into a Neon Fever Dream
In the 1960s, Stephen Antonakos turned his SoHo apartment into a kaleidoscopic fever dream, committing to neon as a fine-art material inside his own…
Mariko Mori's Life in 5 Artworks: A Career of Cosmic Questions
Mariko Mori has spent her career asking cosmic questions about being alive. A new profile traces that inquiry through five artworks that define her r…
Benjamin Moser Calls a Kensett Landscape Painted in 1864 a "Revelation"
Benjamin Moser names a Kensett view of Mount Chocorua, painted in 1864 amid civil war, as his "revelation" — not escapism, he argues, but a summons t…
Benton's America, Sanitized: A Retrospective at Schoelkopf
A compact retrospective at Tribeca's Schoelkopf Gallery exposes how Thomas Hart Benton sanitized slavery's legacy into a timeless agrarian ideal. Thr…
Art Problems: If I Have a Day Job, Am I a Real Artist?
A advice column dismantles the art world's informal tests of seriousness — the studio, the degree, the absence of a day job — and argues they filter…
Jordan Wolfson's Gagosian Return Shockingly Boring, Critic Says
Wolfson's first New York gallery show in a decade brings 9/11 imagery and AI-altered Koons, Mapplethorpe and Guston to Gagosian — and one critic find…
