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Whitney Biennial 2026 Review: The Revolution Will Be Cute In darkening times, the New York institution’s flagship exhibition turns to the cute, the zany and the interesting. Is this move evasive, or even appropriate?

In darkening times, the Whitney Biennial 2026 turns to the cute, the zany and the interesting. Is this move evasive, or even appropriate? artreview.com/everything-i...

What Can We Expect at the 2026 Venice Biennale? Unpacking some of the geopolitical stakes at play this year

Unpacking some of the geopolitical stakes at play this year artreview.com/what-can-we-...

Notes from New York: Independent Study Arts education in US universities is interleaved with unhappy departures and uneasy participation. Could a model of self-paced, self-motivated independent study be the solution?

Arts education in US universities is interleaved with unhappy departures and uneasy participation. Could a model of self-paced, self-motivated study be the solution? artreview.com/notes-from-n...

Jim Carrey’s Face and the Collapse of the Real The collective reaction to the actor’s ‘new’ face is a symptom of the internet’s erosion to our ability to distinguish fact from fiction

The collective reaction to Jim Carrey’s ‘new’ face is a symptom of the internet’s erosion of our ability to distinguish fact from fiction artreview.com/jim-carrey-f...

Even Dying Is A Spectacle Now A new show packages final farewells as mass entertainment. Is death just the latest data point in our relentless attention economy?

Is death just the latest data point in our relentless attention economy? artreview.com/even-dying-i...

Zanele Muholi wins 2026 Hasselblad Award Zanele Muholi will receive a prize of SEK 2,000,000, a Hasselblad camera and a gold medal

Zanele Muholi is the laureate of this year’s Hasselblad Award artreview.com/zanele-muhol...

How to Take R. Crumb at Face Value R. Crumb’s solo exhibition at David Zwirner, London places all the predictable crudeness beside his more touching humanisms

This is R. Crumb at face value, foregrounding his caustic irony, antibourgeois sentiment and love of ‘Amazonian’ women without caveats artreview.com/r-crumb-ther...

Show, Don’t Tell: Museums and the ‘War Against Woke’ American museums are in Trump’s firing line. Do legacy institutions have a future?

American museums are in Trump’s firing line. Do legacy institutions have a future? artreview.com/museums-and-...

Phillip Lai: When Do Objects Become Sculpture? Phillip Lai’s densely wrought, weirdly fugitive objects, on view at Bristol’s Spike Island, straddle the line between art and the everyday

Phillip Lai’s weirdly wrought works, on view at Bristol’s Spike Island, straddle the line between art and the everyday artreview.com/phillip-lai-...

2026 Diriyah Biennale Review: Suspended Out of Time The third edition of the Diriyah Biennale, In Interludes and Transitions, strikes a reassuringly familiar note

The third edition of the Diriyah Biennale, In Interludes and Transitions, strikes a reassuring, familiar note artreview.com/2026-diriyah...

Clémence de La Tour du Pin’s Atmospheric Meditations Everyday detritus and specialist vocabulary help the artist reflect on material transformations

Everyday detritus and specialist vocabulary help the artist to reflect on material transformations artreview.com/clemence-de-...

Cees Nooteboom (1933–2026): The Last Universalist The late author’s work reads today like a time capsule for a fading European worldview

The work of the late author Cees Nooteboom (1933–2026) reads today like a time capsule for a fading European worldview artreview.com/cees-nootebo...

Paul Dash’s Permanent Carnival These colourful paintings of dancing figures reject hierarchy in favour of collective being

Paul Dash’s colourful paintings of dancing figures reject hierarchy in favour of collective being artreview.com/paul-dash-da...

The Interview: Tracey Emin “With or without anger, with or without sadness or depression, I have always been an artist. That’s the constant”

Tracey Emin is a romantic. This is a trait that has often been eclipsed by the mythology surrounding her name artreview.com/the-intervie...

Giancarlo Politi, founder of Flash Art, 1937–2026 Giancarlo Politi, publisher, art critic and founder of the Milan-based Flash Art magazine, has died at 89

Giancarlo Politi, publisher, art critic and founder of the Milan-based Flash Art magazine, has died artreview.com/giancarlo-po...

Does Pierre Huyghe Have a Problem With Women? Liminals, which uses AI to virtually undress women, is not only icky – it feels worryingly like a demonstration piece

At a moment when AI is increasingly used to virtually undress women, the French artist’s dehumanised female avatars feel particularly icky artreview.com/pierre-huygh...

What Can We Expect at the 2026 Venice Biennale? Unpacking some of the geopolitical stakes at play this year

What are some of the geopolitical stakes at play this year? artreview.com/what-can-we-...

ArtReview Podcast | Episode 2: Sarah Morris For episode two of the new ArtReview Podcast, artist Sarah Morris speaks to ArtReview associate editor Jenny Wu.

Artist Sarah Morris speaks to ArtReview associate editor Jenny Wu about the spectacle, getting into the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and the revealing power of the joke artreview.com/artreview-po...

The 9 Exhibitions to See in March 2026 Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to around the world this month, from New York to Hong Kong

Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to around the world this month, from New York to Hong Kong artreview.com/the-9-exhibi...

Even Dying Is A Spectacle Now A new show packages final farewells into mass entertainment. Is death just the latest data point in our relentless attention economy?

saw something weird so wrote about it ! @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/even-dying-i...

Even Dying Is A Spectacle Now A new show packages final farewells into mass entertainment. Is death just the latest data point in our relentless attention economy?

A new Netflix show packages final farewells into mass entertainment. Is death just the latest data point in our relentless attention economy? artreview.com/even-dying-i...

Does Pierre Huyghe Have a Problem With Women? Liminals, which uses AI to virtually undress women, is not only icky – it feels worryingly like a demonstration piece

At a moment when AI is increasingly used to virtually undress women, the French artist Pierre Huyghe’s dehumanised female avatars feel particularly icky artreview.com/pierre-huygh...

Winner of inaugural Mori Art Award Grand Prize announced Katayama Mari will receive ¥10 million and an exhibition of her work

Winner of inaugural Mori Art Award Grand Prize announced: artreview.com/winner-of-in...

What Can We Expect at the 2026 Venice Biennale? Unpacking some of the geopolitical stakes at play this year

In which I look ahead to this year’s venice biennale, and some of the political stakes at play, for @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/what-can-we-...

What Can We Expect at the 2026 Venice Biennale? Unpacking some of the geopolitical stakes at play this year

What can we expect at the 2026 Venice Biennale? Unpacking some of the geopolitical stakes at play this year artreview.com/what-can-we-...

Director of MACBA steps down early The decision comes after Elvira Dyangani Ose was told that her role as artistic director of the Abu Dhabi Public Art Biennial was incompatible with her position as MACBA's director

Elvira Dyangani Ose will step down as director of MACBA in Barcelona in early April, several months before the end of her five-year contract artreview.com/director-of-...

New president announced for the Louvre following resignation of Laurence des Cars Christophe Leribault will take over as president of the French institution

This morning, French president Emmanuel Macron appointed Christophe Leribault as president of Paris’s Louvre museum artreview.com/new-presiden...

Review: ‘The Wax Child’ by Olga Ravn Ravn’s latest novel proposes that a deep, haunting unknowability is essential to us as human beings

🥁 🥁 Olga Ravn's The Wax Child translated by Martin Atiken has been nominated for the International Booker Prize! Here's my review for @artreview.bsky.social

artreview.com/review-the-w...

Artists announced for the 61st Venice Biennale Titled In Minor Keys, the international exhibition will feature 105 artists and collectives and 6 artist-led organisations.

Today, members of the curatorial team of the late Koyo Kouoh, curator of the 61st Venice Biennale, shared the list of participating artists for the 2026 edition.

View the full list of 105 artists and collectives, as well as six artist-led organisations, here: artreview.com/artists-anno...

The Interview: Tracey Emin “With or without anger, with or without sadness or depression, I have always been an artist. That’s the constant”

“With or without anger, with or without sadness or depression, I have always been an artist. That’s the constant”, Tracey Emin tells Fi Churchman artreview.com/the-intervie...