Hrag Vartanian

It's a glorious New Year's Day in New York, and today Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in as mayor of our fair city. This moment marks new beginnings — grounded in the past and prepared for a world we can imagine and build anew.

Dozens of mega-collectors are reputed to be attending the super-secretive fair slated to take place in the US Virgin Islands.

The institution renamed itself in honor of a readymade whoopee cushion by Marcel Duchamp discovered in its archives.

Margaret Curtis's deconstruction of American myth, quotidian objects by Marsden Hartley, and Wendy Red Star's bead-inspired installation are among our picks.

The survey, which happens every five years, rejects the out-of-towner's glossy surfaces in favor of the view from inside.

Plus, the works we're on the fence about in the massive MoMA PS1 survey. A survey of New York is an impossible premise.

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye captures quietude, Seydou Keïta documents a revolution, Renée Green compiles an autoethnography, and much more.

The Venice Biennale's international art exhibition is an unexpected symphony that asks us to ponder what may otherwise be overlooked.

Unmoored from the anchors of deep pockets that often hinder imagination, the artist brought her images of archival documents to an unusual venue in the Italian city.

A professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago asked her students to imagine a way to help someone they might encounter. Leadership found that beyond the pale.