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SIXTY YEARS AGO, in Artforum’s very first issue, our founding editor, Philip Leider, threw down the gauntlet for art’s autonomy. “Art and artists will flourish when an admiring public buys paintings because they love them; if the myth that buying art is a good investment (in the Wall Street sense) is perpetuated, the result can only be disaster for both.” I took his words—from a blistering review of two 1961 publications on art and money—as an early expression of the magazine’s ethos, which made speculation a constitutive exclusion. The keyword for me here was not myth or disaste...

Anthropologist Stephen D. Houston has been tapped as the lecturer of the 72nd edition of the academic event.

THE WHITE-SUITED BLACK SUBJECTS are rendered with varying degrees of realism: There is the chalky brown man at left, who possesses all the charm of a department store mannequin; the androgynous youth at right, with unfurled scarf and ghostly tinted glasses; and, of course, the woman at the center of the work, whose adjacent nude double seems to both teasingly recede into and forcefully protrude beyond the group. Barkley L. Hendricks executed this large-scale canvas, What’s Going On, in 1974, and it is perhaps the most striking of what the artist calls his “limited palette” works, with it...

At the round earths imagin’d corners, blowYour trumpets, Angells, and arise, ariseFrom death, you numberlesse infinitiesOf soules, and to your scattred bodies goe,All whom the flood did, and fire shall o’erthrow,All whom warre, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies,Despaire, law, chance, hath slaine, and you whose eyes,Shall behold God, and never tast deaths woe.But let them sleepe, Lord, and mee mourne a space,For, if above all these, my sinnes abound’Tis late to aske abundance of thy grace,When wee are there; here on this lowly ground,Teach mee how to repent; for that’s as goodAs if thou’h...

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WALTER DARBY BANNARD: SEE FIRST. NAME LATER. (PAINTINGS 1972-1976) OPENS AT BERRY CAMPBELL NEW YORK, NEW YORK, May 25, 2022– Berry Campbell is ...