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09/12/2026

Your new favorite dry shampoo. You’re welcome!

09/08/2026

Welcome back, art world.

Here’s what openings to hit this week for more contact high than actually being able to see the art — ranked for geographic efficiency so you can save your energy to push people through the door.

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08/24/2026

Trompe-l’oeil. Tromp LOY. French for deceives the eye. Now you know how to say it.

The art of painting something so convincingly real the viewer is momentarily fooled into thinking it’s actually there — another enduring tradition in art history.

A dead partridge nailed to a wall in 1504. A boy climbing out of his frame called Escaping Criticism — cheeky for 1874. Picasso glued real newspaper next to painted representations of the same thing and asked which one was more real. Magritte painted a pipe and told you it wasn’t one. Fontana slashed the canvas to suggest infinite space behind it. Pistoletto put life-size figures on mirrored steel until you wanted to step aside. Richter blurred a painted skull until you couldn’t tell if it was a painting or a photograph of one. JR wrapped buildings in photographic collages indistinguishable from real architecture. Muniz painted, photographed, cut, layered, and photographed again until no one could locate the original surface. And Yuskavage introduced it for the first time in her practice not to deceive, but to draw attention to the flatness of the surface itself.

Ten artists. Five hundred years. The same question: what does it mean to look at something that isn’t there?

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Last chance to see the all-time Marcel Duchamp survey at MoMA!Amassing 300+ objects, the exhibition makes you feel just ...
08/20/2026

Last chance to see the all-time Marcel Duchamp survey at MoMA!

Amassing 300+ objects, the exhibition makes you feel just how thrilling Duchamp’s interventions were. His provocations about authorship, value, and the contingency of meaning are just as delightful today.

Catch this show before it closes!

Marcel Duchamp
MoMA, New York
Through August 22

Last chance to see the all-time Marcel Duchamp survey at MoMA!Amassing 300+ objects, the exhibition makes you feel just ...
08/20/2026

Last chance to see the all-time Marcel Duchamp survey at MoMA!

Amassing 300+ objects, the exhibition makes you feel just how thrilling Duchamp’s interventions were. His provocations about authorship, value, and the contingency of meaning are just as delightful today.

Catch this show before it closes!

Marcel Duchamp
MoMA, New York
Through August 22

08/17/2026

Appropriation — artists taking existing images and presenting them in a new context — is one of the most debated concepts in art history. And it is not new.

Manet took Titian. Duchamp took Leonardo. Warhol took a soup can. Lichtenstein took a comic panel. Sturtevant took Warhol — while he was still alive. Levine took Walker Evans. Lawler asked where meaning actually lives. Prince took the Marlboro myth. Koons took a greeting card and lost the lawsuit. Collier went back to the same comics Lichtenstein borrowed from — and asked a completely different question.

Ten artists. One argument that never ends: what is an original?

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08/13/2026

Sus?

One color: that’s it.

The simplest paintings ever or one of art history’s most revolutionary tropes?

From Malevich declaring the end of representation to Klein patenting his own blue to Kapoor fighting over who owns Vantablack: the use of the monochrome shows just how much one color can convey.

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