Get your comic fix with moving, witty, poignant books by Ai Weiwei, Tessa Hulls, Julia Wertz, Mattie Lubchansky, and more.

This month: Audrey Flack, Sonya Clark, Raven Chacon, Mike Olin, and more.

Members of the Israeli embassy reportedly mistook news of a new local hummus restaurant as plans for an attack by “Hamas” at the international art gathering.

A new survey suggests that exhibition catalogs and other art books are more likely to be used to protect coffee tables than actually read by anyone.

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

Joanna Beall Westermann, Mel Kendrick, Japanese zenga paintings, absolute gems from the collections of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, and more. 

This week it’s a whole lotta TikToks, as the US government wants to ban it if the company doesn’t sell it to another owner, which is pretty terrible.

The exhibition that often acts as a barometer of trends and ideas percolating in global art communities has both hits and misses.

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 month: Huma Bhabha, Paul Cadmus, Kay WalkingStick, Beatrix Potter, and more.

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

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

Cathleen Clarke’s haunting paintings of childhood, Sharon Louden’s funhouse-like aluminum artworks, Richard Mosse’s new video installation, and more.

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.

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

This month: Aki Sasamoto, Shary Boyle, Apollinaria Broche, Godzilla, and more.

The artist’s recent exhibition, Fae, is like a fantasy film that asks you to stay open to the idea of magic.

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”?

Longtime Brooklyn artists Julie Torres and Ellen Letcher, who decamped upstate in 2016 to co-direct LABspace, are reunited with New York City in their first joint exhibition.

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, 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.

This month: Kelly Sinnapah Mary, Cynthia Lahti, the Met Museum’s rehung galleries, 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, 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, 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 month: The irreverent feminist art of Marta Minujín, Molly Crabapple channels Toulouse-Lautrec, Sonya Kelliber-Combs’s cryptic visual lexicon, and much 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.

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 month: Frank Stella, Jaqueline Cedar, Manet vs. Degas, nudes from the Arab world, and more.

Aurora Mardiganian survived the Armenian Genocide and found freedom in the United States before realizing that the entertainment system she trusted with her story prioritized profit over her pain.

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”?

The Iranian artist creates work that moves beyond cliché to create a new visual language about existing freely in the world.

This week, Tamara Lanier's continuing quest for justice, the Airbnb guest from hell, Canada's Nazi problem, ancient LA, the cover of Salman Rushdie's new book, and 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 month: Henry Taylor, Barkley L. Hendricks, Carlos Villa and Leo Valledor, Cecilia Paredes, 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.

This week, influencers get paid to feed you crap, Naomi Klein’s “doppelganger,” the best Burning Man takedown, and why are we all calling each other “girl”?

This month: Ruth Asawa, Michael Rakowitz, Math Bass, contemporary Native art, and more.

Some things never change, like the over-botoxed art collector and the $25 cold sandwich.

This week, metallic spheres from another solar system, the problem with compulsive gift-giving, shots of a rare blue moon, and much more.

Hadi Moussally’s short film "Sultana’s Reign" is a lovely portrait of queerness, Middle Easternness, and Palestinianness … a beautiful multitude.

This week, the world's rarest giraffe, museum gluttony for ads, Grimes on Musk, Instagram colonialism, and more.

This week, a new generation of “lesbian bars,” inequality in music streaming, Mexican-Punjabi communities in California, and who’s the artist behind the Strathmore sketchbook cover?