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Features• August 14, 2025

Love Letter Incinerators: Martin Wong’s Prison Paintings

By Zach Ngin

“We know how much of sexuality there is in all cruelties, tortures, beatings.” —Frantz Fanon “Abolition requires we change one thing: everything.” —Ruth Wilson Gilmore I…

Features, Reviews• August 1, 2025

Jack Whitten, Human Xerox Machine

By Elizabeth Wiet

Tilt your ear to a Jack Whitten painting and you might hear music. “You gotta be able to think like John Coltrane to do…

Reviews• September 11, 2024

Daddy Says: Ed Ruscha in Other Words

By Rachel Elizabeth Jones

Ed Ruscha is a great American art daddy, such that he has been called “the deadpan laureate of American art,” “the great American Pop…

Features, Reviews• April 26, 2024

A Feeling Between the Lines: The Anxious Influence of Agnes Martin’s “Writings”

By Terry Nguyen

The painter Agnes Martin contemplated language with a great deal of skepticism. Though she produced an impressive body of written work, mostly compiled and…

Features• September 8, 2023

“A Multiculti Blitzkrieg”: On the Ascendance of the Curator of Color

By Simon Wu

Yoshio Taniguchi’s 2004 expansion of the Museum of Modern Art integrated the glass buildings on either side of the museum so that when you…

Features, Reviews• August 22, 2023

We’re Alive, Pablo Is Dead

By Elisabeth Nicula

Pablo Picasso is so famous and so ubiquitous and so dead that he is easy not to think about at all. It’s as though…

Features• October 14, 2021

Stop Guarding the Art

By X. Amy Zhang

The Baltimore Museum of Art will open an exhibition guest-curated by 17 of the museum’s security officers next March. Titled Guarding the Art, art…

Artnet News, Features• March 6, 2020

With Sharper Tools: Defending the National Endowment for the Arts

By Ben Davis

The Heritage Foundation and conservative groups like it have been trying to kill the National Endowment for the Arts for decades. Last month, the Trump…