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KENTURAH DAVIS Lauren Halsey (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) Emerging onto the Met's rooftop, I'm greeted by sphinxes with faces carved in the likeness of the artist's loved ones. [...]

On April 25, Carrie Mae Weems was honored at the 12th edition of the Brooklyn Museum's annual Artists Ball. But Weems, who has explored subjects like race, gender, identity, politics, [...]

This should have been a busy holiday period for the Chinese artist Ai Wei-wei. His exhibition at London's Lisson Gallery was due to open last month and others were planned [...]

TO TAKE STOCK OF THE PAST YEAR, ARTFORUM ASKED AN INTERNATIONAL GROUP OF ARTISTS TO SELECT A SINGLE EXHIBITION OR EVENT THAT MOST MEMORABLY CAUGHT THEIR ATTENTION IN 2022. TIONA [...]

Sasha Geffen SASHA GEFFEN IS A WRITER LIVING IN DENVER AND THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK GUTTER UP THE DARK: HOW POP MUSIC BROKE THE BINARY (UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS, [...]

One of the first assignments Phil Leider gave me as an Artforum staff writer was the February 1966 Donald Judd show at Leo Castelli's Seventy-Seventh Street gallery (a walk down [...]

DURING THE FIRST DECADE of Artforum, two comments appeared in its pages that have long troubled me. They occur in well-known interviews, the first with Tony Smith, published in December [...]

In 1959, in a short essay called 'The Great Game to Come,' a little-known Dutch visual artist named Constant Nieuwenhuys described a new Utopian city--one that he was soon to [...]

Krista Kim's dream home didn't exist, so she built it herself--in the metaverse. In 2020, cooped up with her two kids in a Toronto condo during the Covid lockdown, the [...]

DARREN BADER 'The Medici: Portraits and Politics 1512-1570' (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) My first trip to the Met in at least seventeen months provided placid, people-free galleries, tears [...]

Narcissister is a Brooklyn-based artist and performer. Masked and merkin-ed, she works at the intersection of dance, art, and activism in a range of media including live performance, film, video, [...]

Ai Weiwei Leaving Beijing was not just a political choice--I was a climate refugee Fog, sandstorm and smog: these were three words I learned during my decades living in Beijing. [...]

Byline: Adam Iscoe Playing Anchorman Most people don't trust the news anymore, but everyone still seems to want a piece of it. Hedge funds are scooping up TV stations. Billionaires [...]

NASH GLYNN IS NUDE. Her body is pink and toned, perched in contrapposto at the edge of a classic American landscape. She's a colossus. There's green at her feet--definitely grass, [...]

AS OF THIS WRITING, we are waiting to see whether Election Day 2020 will mark an end to the hallucinatory nightmare of Donald Trump's presidency; whether it will constitute a [...]

Bees shimmy into apple blossoms, their wings making music with the petals. Ants crawl on peonies, so their petals, now tightly wrapped, may shortly bloom. Basil left uneaten, basil gone [...]

IN EARLY JUNE, as heat turned up around the uprisings in defense of Black lives, I saw an Instagram story by the wildly talented artist and musician DonChristian Jones. He [...]

Patrisse Cullors Activist, Cofounder of Black Lives Matter, Artist, Educator, Author What does originality mean to you? It's hard to hear that question and not hear 'individuality.' I don't believe [...]

THIS IS THE END. Again. The Enlightenment, the American experiment, the postwar order-depending who you ask, any or all of these momentous constructs, and so many more, have collapsed in [...]

PART OF THIS MEME, like a lot of memes I make, comes from conversations I was having in my head that were echoing conversations I was having or seeing happen [...]

AS A CHILD, THIS PHOTOGRAPHER GOT A CLOSE-UP LOOK AT THE NATURAL WORLD HE'S BEEN ENTHRALLED EVER SINCE GROWING UP ON the shores of I ake Huron in the Canadian [...]

Rick Silva is an artist and professor who was born in Brazil and is currently based in Eugene, Oregon. His videos, websites, and installations explore virtuality, futurology, and speculative ecologies. [...]

Renee Gladman is a writer and artist preoccupied with crossings, thresholds, and geographies as they play out at the intersections of poetry, prose, drawing, and architecture. She is the author [...]

EACH DECEMBER, Artforum invites a group of distinguished critics, curators, and artists from around the world to consider the year in art. Ten contributors count down their top ten highlights [...]