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Maurizio Cattelan’s Sunday at Gagosian isn’t funny. Cattelan has made it clear that he doesn’t consider himself a “joker,” only to then confront those who came to the opening with the phrase “Beware of yourself” rendered in a twisted graphic font reminiscent of Jared Leto’s forehead tattoo or Heath Ledger’s handwriting in their performances as the famed Batman villain.

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Ronald Davis talks about his art and how he started out in the 1960s, his friendship with Judy Chicago, playing chess with David Hockney and having a Scotch with Clement Greenberg

IT TOOK MARCEL DUCHAMP exactly one year, from Sonate (Sonata) in August 1911 to Mariée (Bride) in August 1912, to make his way through Cubism. He had been a rather…

Preservationists have just weeks to salvage tiles from Isaiah Zagar’s legendary artwork in Old City.

Like many, I am historically affected by the atrocities we are witnessing; not as a Jew but as a human being

Walter De Maria (1935–2013) almost never gave interviews. In a rare one from 1972, he mentioned that he had conceived twenty-four three-dimensional

From hit novels by late bloomers to artists turned chess masters, our critics select culture that revels in reinvention

This week, the editors revisit Max Kozloff’s “Men and Machines” from Artforum’s February 1969 issue. The critic’s reflections on art and technology are best read alongside our summer issue, which contains writings on artificial intelligence by hannah baer, Mario Carpo, and Zoë Hitzig.“Comforting solipsisms do not forestall fear that our onetime extensions, the machines, are becoming our present competitors.” Written more than fifty years ago, Kozloff’s words ring with alarming ...

Marcel Duchamp, in full Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp, (born July 28, 1887, Blainville, France—died October 2, 1968, Neuilly), French artist who broke down the boundaries between works of art and everyday objects. After the sensation caused by Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (1912), he painted few other pictures. His irreverence for conventional aesthetic standards led him to devise his famous ready-mades and heralded an artistic revolution. Duchamp was friendly with the Dadaists, and in the...