Why Everyone Hates AI Data Centers
The left-right coalition forming against AI
ROYGBIV: Julio Torres’s Color Theories and the art of curatorial comedy
OVER THE PAST DECADE, Julio Torres has perfected the art of curatorial comedy, a term I’ve just coined. This is a highly sophisticated brand of object-oriented, narrativized humor whose deadpan subtlety makes it categorically distinct from the blunt ph…
AI Slop Is Coming for Your Playlists
Is that song stuck in your head actually AI?
Nigel Dunnett obituary
Landscape designer whose naturalistic schemes transformed public spaces and community gardens From a flower-filled moat at the Tower of London to a rooftop community garden on the Old Kent Road, the work of the landscape designer, horticulturist and ed…
The Long-Sealed Vaults Beneath the Lincoln Memorial Are Finally Opening—and the Tickets Already Sold Out
The Lincoln Memorial Undercroft Museum is scheduled to open June 25.
Overlooked No More: Nancy Sheung, Whose Camera Captured Women on Their Own Terms
In 1960s Hong Kong, she used photography to portray women as bold, self-possessed and unconstrained by traditional expectations.
This ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ Miffy Toy Is Officially an Internet Celebrity
The famed Vermeer painting will visit Osaka this summer in a rare voyage abroad.
British Museum Reschedules Postponed Israel Lecture to June Following Fears of Protests
The museum claimed that a “significant proportion” of attendees wanted to “disrupt the event.”
A Book I Wish I’d Read at 22
I’m not alone in feeling regret over not having found the right book at just the right time.
Tess Jaray, Painter of Architectural Abstractions, Dies at 88
British painter, printmaker, and educator Tess Jaray, whose spare geometric abstractions investigated notions of pictorial and architectural space, died on May 24. She was eighty-eight. The first female professor at London’s Slade School of Art, Jaray …
Lawsuit alleges ‘aesthetic injury’ from Trump’s blue reflecting pool: L.A. arts and culture this weekend
A lawsuit filed this month alleges Trump’s order to paint the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool blue has caused an ‘aesthetic injury.’
Spin city: Melbourne loves records – but is it really the vinyl capital of the world?
From a vinyl-focused music exhibition to beloved record stores, ‘listening bars’ and clubs, the Victorian capital’s fondness for wax reverberates in every corner of the cityWhen the needle drops, Elias Rahbani’s 1972 album Mosaic of the Orient (Näi, Bu…
In ‘Fallen Angels,’ Kelli O’Hara and Rose Byrne Get Laughs Getting Sloshed
The Tony-nominated stars of “Fallen Angels” demonstrate how to act drunk onstage and have a hilarious hangover.
Review: ‘Girls Girls Chance Chance Music Music’ Loves a Good Riff
In Eisa Davis’s new play with live music, at the Vineyard Theater, gifted teenagers find their own rhythms at a summer music program.
Green and pleasant views, digital dreams and a White Stripe sculpts – the week in art
British landscape painting from Gainsborough to Hepworth, Wendy McMurdo’s uncanny portraits and Jack White’s debut exhibition – all in your weekly dispatchBritish Landscapes: A Sense of PlaceThe romance and mystery of Britain’s green and pleasant land,…
Photography Spotlight: Alex Bruno
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Photos of the Week: Memorial Day, Spelling Bee, Cheese Rolling
The annual Black Cowboy Festival in South Carolina, a springtime heat wave across western Europe, ballroom dancing in England, a gothic festival in Germany, and much more
Looted Colonial Artifacts in the Dutch Royal Family Collection, Exit Interview With Lonnie Bunch III, and More: Morning Links for May 29, 2026
A small number of colonial artifacts owned by the Dutch royal family may have been acquired illegally, according to a new report.
Don’t: Camille Henrot review – surreal sexual psychodrama for the digitally overwhelmed
The Perimeter, LondonTesticles have faces and a fox licks a phallus as the French artist mixes online anxiety, family life and saucy erotica in works charged with meaningCamille Henrot used to deal with the vast and unknowable. She used to ask the big …
Becoming a Perfect Wife, by Any Means Necessary
The Testaments, Hulu’s sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, is more than a little skeptical about hyper-domesticity.
The Biggest Tell That Something Was Written by AI
Look closely and you’ll see that every part of the text is not quite right.
Trump Takes His Cut
Federal stakes in public companies may enrich the government, but they are bad for America.
The True Crime Story of a Notorious Looter
How Douglas Latchford got away with it; plus, Frank Stella’s Navajo weavings.
Why these rare early Marilyn Monroe photos stayed hidden for decades
To celebrate the 100th birthday of Marilyn Monroe, five unpublished photos of the starlet from 1949 are being auctioned off.
Violet Grohl steps out of her famous father’s shadow with a haunted, alt-rock debut
At 20, Violet Grohl steps beyond her father Dave’s rock legacy with debut album “Be Sweet to Me,” a haunted, alt-rock debut steeped in ’80s and ’90s experimental grit.
With ‘American on Purpose,’ Craig Ferguson wanted to celebrate America’s unusualness and humanity
The former late-night host’s new CNN series takes him on a road trip across the country, where he encounters only-in-America monster trucks, lowriders and haggis tacos.
‘Hacks’ Was Always a Love Story
In its finale, this comedy about comedy circled back to the romance of creative partnership and the saving power of laughs.
NYC Pride Events 2026: Where to Celebrate
Get ready for drag shows, marches, musicals, parades and a “Heated Rivalry” parody.
This Dancer Is Helping to Expand What a Ballet Body Can Be
Olivia Book of Ballet West is one of the first professional ballet dancers to have a limb difference.
‘I found a place’: how Backrooms captures the horror of sinister architecture
Buzzy new thriller Backrooms takes us on an unknowable journey through liminal spaces, the latest film to turn a building into a horror villainWhen architect turned furniture store owner Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor) finds a portal to a mysterious realm of …
The Newest James Bond Game, 007 First Light, Is a Mix of Hitman and Uncharted
There are high-tech gadgets and delightful moments in 007 First Light. But too often it becomes an action hero’s linear journey.
Time and Material Feel Alive in the Hammer’s “Several Eternities in a Day” Exhibition
On view through August 23, the show features 22 artists, many of them Indigenous and Latinx.
What We Miss When We Flatten Georgia O’Keeffe Into a Feminist Icon
A new documentary oscillates between circumventing narrative traps and walking right into them.
Zohra Opoku, a ‘Woven Storyteller,’ Is Shapeshifting Her Way into Africa’s Biggest Museums
Her current survey is being held at Zeitz MOCAA, a South African museum whose director was formerly Koyo Kouoh.
Trump Might Already Be a Lame Duck
Victories for his candidates in GOP primaries could serve to hasten the president’s political decline.
Young MC and Morris Day Pull Out of Freedom 250 Concerts
Young MC, Martina McBride and Morris Day were among those who said they would not perform at the series on the National Mall.
Tenderness and Rage: how groups affected by HIV found power, comfort and joy in Aids activism
London exhibition explores how care and protest improved rights and dignity of those living with diseaseFrom photos of a mass “die-in” by Aids activists in Trafalgar Square, London, in the 1990s to plushie breasts, lips and vulvas hand-stitched by HIV-…
Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder Discuss ‘Hacks’ Series Finale and Their Offscreen Relationship
In an interview, Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder discuss the series finale, their offscreen relationship and why comedy is just like sex.
Curating in the Cross Hairs: Is This the Smithsonian Chief’s Last Show?
Lonnie G. Bunch III, the Smithsonian secretary under pressure from the White House, organized an exhibit exploring America’s founding ideals.
Gracie Abrams sets four-night Kia Forum homecoming for Look at My Life tour
Gracie Abrams is hitting arenas worldwide with her 64-date Look at My Life tour, including four homecoming nights in December at Inglewood’s Kia Forum.
The Brazenness of DOJ’s Reported Investigation of E. Jean Carroll
The latest move shows that Trump has no issue with politicized justice—he just wants it on his side.
ABC files applications ‘under protest’ for early renewal of TV station licenses
ABC has submitted the eight license renewal applications for its TV stations that was ordered two years early by the Federal Communications Commission.
The Looter Who Built Your Favorite Museum
A new book maps the network that allowed Douglas Latchford to violently rip Khmer statues from their homes and funnel them into Western institutions.
Art Movements: Wolfgang Tillmans Wins Europe’s Richest Art Prize
The first public exhibition of Jack White’s artwork, Cheryl Finley gets the David C. Driskell Prize, and more news to know.
Required Reading
This week: a record-breaking World Cup mural in Mexico City, the Gen Z of 19th-century France, van Gogh and AI, and more.
David Humphrey Is Allergic to Style
The artist challenges the status quo of postmodernism, not by knocking it over but by slyly subverting it.
Figurative Expressionist Painter Jay Milder Dies at 92
He carved out a space for himself in the downtown art scene as a bold artist and gallerist who championed contemporaries such as Claes Oldenburg and Jim Dine.
A Look Into Frank Stella’s Mesmerizing Collection of Diné Textiles
The late artist’s trove of Navajo weavings is on public display for the first time at Arader Galleries in NYC ahead of a sale.
A ‘Promising Democracy’ That Can’t Stop Fighting Itself
In 1950, The Atlantic had a warning for Colombia. Now, ahead of its election, that same warning is relevant once more.
The U.S. Is Winging This Ebola Outbreak
By responding to this outbreak independently, the U.S. is showing the limits of that approach.