For nearly a century and a half, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the beaux arts behemoth on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, has been rather a dowdy operation, a standard-bearer for everything ...

The New Republic. Matt Ford / November 27, 2018. The Art of the Spectacle Tear gassing migrant children took only a moment. But it was the work of years. Mario Tama/Getty Images.

A 144-page volume that deserves the cliché appellation of slim, How to Be an Artist exists at the intersection of a tiny corpus of art-criticism books and the booming genre of self-help-meets ...

Founded in 1914, The New Republic is a media organization dedicated to addressing today’s most critical issues. Skip Navigation. The New ... Books & The Arts. June 13, 2025 ...

The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The current iteration of MoMA is beautiful, but logistics matter more than aesthetics (a Modernist tenet!). The vast lobby is stunning but designed to recede ...

Jay Gates, the narrator of Hari Kunzru’s latest novel, Blue Ruin, borrows the title of Balzac’s story for his degree show at a London art school in the 1990s heyday of the infamous Young ...

As have many art workers across the nation, including those at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the New Museum, the Frye Art Museum, and—as part of a group of workers at my first job in the ...

The Inspiring Hacktivist Ethos of an Indian Art Studio CAMP, a Mumbai-based collaborative, makes use of cellphone videos, CCTV, and pirate radio, turning tech to subversive ends.

The critic in question was the New Republic’s Otis Ferguson, who, like Stanley Kauffmann after him, was one of the great film essayists of his era. Both men were noted for their innovative ...