Art
The Art World
Ben Shahn, the Lefty Artist Who Was Left Behind
Shahn was an American phenomenon, but a new retrospective suggests that we’ve come to prize his politics over his accomplishments.
By Zachary Fine
Infinite Scroll
How Cory Arcangel Recovered a Late Artist’s Digital Legacy
Michel Majerus died in a plane crash, but the contents of his laptop are providing a window into his process two decades later. Arcangel says, “It’s like he just stepped out of the room.”
By Kyle Chayka
Photo Booth
Pictures from Where the Senses Encounter the World
Cig Harvey’s “Emerald Drifters” is a rallying cry to exist in our bodies.
By Ocean Vuong
Infinite Scroll
The Limits of A.I.-Generated Miyazaki
The launch of GPT-4o inspired a rash of A.I.-generated Studio Ghibli-style images. They may bode worse for audiences than for artists.
By Kyle Chayka
Video Dept.
The Art of the New Yorker Cover
Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker’s art editor, presents a seminar on how the magazine’s famous covers are crafted each week, joined by the cover artists Sarula Bao and Adrian Tomine.
By The New Yorker
Cover Story
Victoria Tentler-Krylov’s “New Heights”
Sunlight flickering on the hustle and bustle of the streets.
By Françoise Mouly
Photo Booth
Renée Cox’s Visions of the Future
In a body of work that spans fine art and fashion photography, Cox has repurposed familiar imagery—the Pietà, “The Last Supper”—to broaden the scope of how we envision our deities and our histories.
By Gioncarlo Valentine
Cover Story
Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet’s “Shadow Story”
The artist attempts to preserve the most perfect time of year.
By Françoise Mouly
Books
The Anguish of Looking at a Monet
More than beauty, more than color, the artist reveals the doubts that bind us.
By Jackson Arn
Postscript
The Indestructible Art of Frank Stella
The artist, who has died at eighty-seven, rattled standards of modernist abstraction rather as Bob Dylan did those of folk music.
By Peter Schjeldahl
Essay
The Haiti That Still Dreams
The country is being defined by disaster. What would it mean to tell a new story?
By Edwidge Danticat
Cover Story
Pascal Campion’s “Into the Light”
The artist depicts stepping out of the subway into the overwhelming glow of the city.
By Françoise Mouly
Culture Desk
New York City Travel Posters Through the Decades
Images from a century past showcase colorful dreams of a magnetic metropolis.
By Nicholas D. Lowry
The Theatre
The Art of the Robocall
“Lennox Mutual,” a one-on-one immersive theatrical experience, raises questions about performance, A.I., and corporate culture.
By Kristen Roupenian
Cover Story
Barry Blitt’s “Slappenheimer”
The artist revisits the infamous Oscars slap to riff on the tensions of this year’s ceremony.
By Françoise Mouly
Cartoons
Leaving Bellevue Behind
I remember being told that I was not allowed to leave the hospital until I admitted that what I did was “wrong.”
By Navied Mahdavian
Cover Story
Victoria Tentler-Krylov’s “All Clear”
The artist captures New York’s smallest pedestrians as they make their way through the big city.
By Françoise Mouly
Page-Turner
Diary of an Abomination
In an illustrated depiction of a young girl’s self-discovery, monstrosity is only skin-deep.
By Emil Ferris
Persons of Interest
The Arts Center at Ground Zero Is Finally Here. Can Bill Rauch Make It Work?
Rauch has been called the “nicest man in show business.” Now he’s trying to bring the spirit of community theatre to a building that cost half a billion dollars.
By Daniel Pollack-Pelzner