Art
Thingy&Thingy's campaign for Vivobarefoot is like ...
With the help of the "anti-advertising" agency, Vivobarefoot has launched a joyful animated call to arms that blends play, provocation and purpose. We in the creative industries love a good first....
Ben Sakoguchi at Gasworks
July 10 – September 7, 2025
Henrik Plenge Jakobsen at Lagune Ouest
August 15 – September 13, 2025
Kazuna Taguchi at mumok
June 13 – September 16, 2025
Painters Amy Sillman and Cameron Martin on Tragico...
Martin is showing now at Sikkema Jenkins Molloy in New York, Sillman at Dia Bridgehampton.
80 Museum Exhibitions and Biennials to See This Fa...
From new museums to blockbusters for Old Masters, here's what you need to visit this season.
Why Cavalry is the secret weapon of the world's be...
This revolutionary motion graphics tool is reshaping global design. Discover Cavalry, and find out what it can do for you. When a small team of animators in Manchester decided to build their own m...
Tips from creatives on how to handle cashflow stre...
In the second of our new advice series, creatives share their hard-won wisdom on surviving feast-or-famine cycles, late payments and the perpetual anxiety of freelance finances. Welcome to the sec...
The New York Times launches its first original log...
Following the runaway success of Wordle and Connections, The New York Times Games team has unveiled a tactile, domino-based puzzle that blends clarity, colour and clever design thinking. When The...
Yinka Ilori launches debut watch collection with M...
The British-Nigerian artist and designer has unveiled a trio of limited-edition watches created in partnership with MB&F's M.A.D.Editions. Yinka Ilori MBE has released his first-ever watch col...
Five Under-the-Radar Galleries to Watch in Seoul
A new wave of younger galleries has gravitated toward less conventional settings in setting up shop across Seoul.
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
BONAVENTURE SOH BEJENG NDIKUNG cuts an outsize presence in contemporary curating. Originally trained in biophysics and biotechnology, Ndikung changed tack in 2009 to found the art space SAVVY Contemporary in a former storefront in Berlin’s Neukölln neighborhood. In the...
P. Adams Sitney (1944–2025)
A FORMIDABLE CRITIC and an expansive personality, P. Adams Sitney was at once affable and irascible, generous and opinionated. He loved to play the Great Man, and as the author of an unquestionably great book illuminating an ostensibly abstruse...
Dara Birnbaum (1946–2025)
WHEN THE VIDEO ART PIONEER Dara Birnbaum passed away this past May, she left behind a bevy of fellow artists, gallerists, and curators who have championed her throughout the years. Stuart Comer, the Lonti Ebers Chief Curator of Media...
Koyo Kouoh (1967–2025)
ONE SUMMER, Koyo Kouoh invited me to the home outside Basel that she shared with her saxophonist husband, Philippe Mall. Arriving with my then-partner, the artist Alexandra Bachzetsis, we met Theo Eshetu, Godfried Donkor, Tracey Rose, and other artists...
Sideways Thoughts
WHAT MAKES A WORK OF ART “GREAT”? When I was teaching art history, one idea that emerged in our classroom discussions was that the great work of art is often (though not always) polyvalent, proposing multiple ideas or themes...
Tools of the Trade
Yuk Hui speaks with Daniel Birnbaum about his philosophy of technology
Fall Previews
Three times a year—September, January, and May—Artforum’s editors look ahead to the coming season of institutional exhibitions, identifying those that are likely to impact the trajectory of contemporary art and art history. In this issue, we preview twenty-five exhibitions...
Home Renovation
On the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s redesigned wing for the arts of Africa, the Ancient Americas, and Oceania
Agosto Machado
SOME HEARTS MIRACULOUSLY ENDURE. Agosto Machado—artist, activist, thespian, muse, historian, raconteur, and perennial fashion plate—is one of them. Machado grew up an orphan in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood and spent much of his youth without a roof over his...