This week, Eid in Gaza, Arizona’s draconian anti-abortion law, a TikTok critic’s honest review of the eclipse, trolling Eric Adams, postmodern Bob Ross, and more.

“I arrive at the studio in the morning and play a perreo song by Karol G, Ivy Queen, or Tokischa; I dance; that is my meditation.”

This week, women of color in architecture, shady government comic books, a beloved cherry blossom tree’s last bloom, and much more.

“At times I just sit and have a tea and go into my thoughts for a while; I don’t allow myself to do this at home or anywhere else.”

Dwindling visitor numbers signaled “an urgent need for measured controversy, neither too inflammatory nor too trite,” the museum said.

This week, a Birkin bag lawsuit, Central Park’s sidewalks, political neutrality in history classrooms, the Broad’s costly expansion, and much more.

“My studio space doubles as a place of meditation, allowing me to enter a state of flow where ideas move freely and barriers dissolve.”

This week, the boundless creativity of Audrey Flack, filmmakers memorialize the Haitian Revolution, medieval women’s embroidery, talking dogs, and more.

This week, studios in Chicago, California, DC, and New Hampshire.

This week, aging and women’s self-portraiture, the fictional language of Dune, an Air Canada AI nightmare, Terracotta army dancers, and much more.

This week, artist studios in Colorado, Indiana, California, and the Hudson Valley.

Meret Oppenheim’s poetry, Pao Houa Her’s first monograph, the journals of Charles Burchfield, subway art around New York City, and more.

This week, archiving Palestinian seeds, Criterion and cinematic taste, pianos get a tech upgrade, cotton candy art, and much more.

This week, artist studios in Connecticut, Mexico, Los Angeles, and Wisconsin.

This week, tooth fairy troubles, viral “funny” trauma stories, Byzantine art, Frida Kahlo and indigeneity, and more.

This week, artist studios in Portugal, Brooklyn, California, and Virginia.

This week, the problem with Goodreads, crackdowns on pro-Palestine activism, reflections from a MoMA stabbing victim, Just Dance makeup, and much more.

This week, artist studios in Vancouver, Santa Fe, California, and Pennsylvania.

This week, reimagined bolo ties, art-world oligarchy, the Cubbyhole incident, your guide to gay bathhouses in Japan, and why no one needs more than $20 million.

This week, artist studios in Brooklyn, Chicago, California, and Virginia.

Samia Halaby, the collaborative history of photography, ancient cave paintings, shapeshifting flocks of birds, and more for your art reading list.

This week, soup and art museums, one owl’s escape from Central Park Zoo, the false promise of AI, when film critics hang out, and what is “faerie smut”?

This week, artist studios in Miami, Vermont, Connecticut, and Los Angeles.

This week, the artist who embroidered with her hair, India’s newest monument to Hindu nationalism, frozen bubbles in a Canadian lake, and much more. 

This week, artist studios in Colombia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Virginia.

This week, Rothko and Mozart, Black history archives, the evolution of Monopoly, the world’s greatest stereo, and why are so many NYC restaurants closing?

This week, Brooklyn’s new anti-war mural, a former Winnipeg Art Gallery director’s Nazi ties, Naomi Klein on the BDS movement, a child art critic takes on The Met, and more.

From an artist’s moving children’s book to an index of Indigenous North American type, add these art titles to your 2024 reading list.

This week, a futuristic bookstore, social media and art amid Russia’s war on Ukraine, ancient Greek napkins made of dough, Claudine Gay’s resignation, and more.

This week, artist studios in Quebec, California, Brooklyn, and Manhattan.

This week, a Palestinian poet tells his story, West African henna, the art of board game design, the rise of the “girl” in 2023, charcuterie board personalities, and more.

This week, a virtual tour of the Vermeer retrospective, an AI-written novel wins a prize, filling your fish tank with local water, a tribute to poet Refaat Alareer, and more.

This week, homeschooling’s seedy underbelly, penguins taking “microsleeps,” the history of hats, and why are TikTokers quitting vaping?

This week, artist studios in Buenos Aires, Ohio, Calabasas, and Ojai, California.

This week, a giant sand maze in Miami, how to free yourself from big tech, Eric Adams’s bad luck streak, the fringe benefits of near-sightedness, and more.

Sonya Clark’s latest catalogue, the case for decolonizing drag, Coco Fusco speaks truth to power, a memoir of Brooklyn’s underground performance scene, and more.

This week, Israel destroys Gaza’s main library; a queer, climate-conscious song from Yo-Yo Ma; a giant pottery wheel, Spotify Wrapped, and more.

This week, the movement to “decolonize” chocolate, Lorraine Hansberry’s little-known lesbian fiction, corporate accents, and much more.

This week, the oldest plant-based red paint, the stories of queer Palestinians in Gaza, why women’s clothes don’t have pockets, and more.

This week, artist studios in Montana, New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.

The original “not like the other girls” of art fairs has an ambiance of genuine curiosity and sincere connection.

This week, unopened 18th-century love letters, an unsung female archaeologist, Indigenous artists on the meaning of home, cookie-cutter holiday rom-coms, and more.

Christina Sharpe’s Ordinary Notes, Nan Goldin’s new catalogue, a visual biography of Marina Abramovic, and more.

This week, why Toni Morrison left publishing, the Artforum open letter debacle, Halloween costumes only New Yorkers will understand, and more.

This week, Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’s enduring legacy, the “doyenne of Black horror,” the ultimate Jeff Koons Halloween costume, and why do cats meow?

This week, censorship of Palestinian journalists, early 2000s fashion’s healing powers, the uncertain future of Barcelona’s beaches, and why is there a sport called “conkers”?

This week, artist studios in Bushwick, California, South Brooklyn, and the interstate highway system.

This week, museums and mental health, Google aims for our wallets, the marketing psychology of floor designs, Crayola color theory, and much more.

The story of a Gee’s Bend quilt, McKenzie Wark’s new memoir, Native photography, motherhood in light of Agnes Martin, and more.

This week, satellite images capture lines of cars carrying Armenians fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh, an Ethiopian painting looted by the British Museum, digitizing Urdu script, and much more.