Affirmation is available everywhere. Why ruin aesthetics?

Selections from ‘War and Constraint,’ at the Fondation Fiminco

The painter reflects on sunken ships, his family’s Jewish history and those goddamn hearts

The passing of Ilya Kabakov, 1933-2023, reminds us how the movement he pioneered under totalitarian rule paved the way for post-Soviet Russian art

Cookie Mueller’s stories and a new documentary from Laura Poitras recreate the fashionable degeneracy of 1980s New York

The history of a remarkable artwork celebrating the creation of the State of Israel, born in Hawaii and Berlin, and recovered from the basement of a youth services center in Connecticut

Italian historian Carlo Vecce set out to debunk rumors of da Vinci’s foreign origins, but a newly discovered document changed his mind

An interview with author and artist Maira Kalman

An aging art critic educates Gen Z on Jimi Hendrix, the pleasures of Adderall, and the mystery of Gerald Laing, the forgotten pioneer of pop art

Lessons from a half-century in the art world

I bid goodbye to my boxes

Tablet brings back an early profile of the great Soviet dissident artist who has died at age 90

Was Frida Kahlo Jewish, and does it matter? A blockbuster show at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum brings the Mexican artist’s contradictions to life.

ArtSugar offers affordable art online, with 5 percent of proceeds donated to a charity of the buyer’s choosing

A dispatch from David Levinthal’s doll-house diorama factory, where the photographer plays with the line between real and pretend