art critic, coeditor of @artforum
New York
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On the cover of Artforum’s November issue, two microphones sit on a green tablecloth in an empty room, surrounded by shelves of film canisters, notebooks, and Betamax cassettes. The image is Thomas Demand’s Repository (2018)—his photograph of a cardboard model of the Munich studio where Alexander Kluge, who died in March at ninety-four, did much of his television interviewing.
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Breadwoman lives at the center of the earth. She is so ancient that her face has turned to bread.The mysterious figure created in 1982 by Anna Homler, the Los Angeles–based musician and performance artist, presides over the cover of Artforum’s September issue.
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the Venice Biennale is not very good, but the whole thing was redeemed by Florentina Holzinger's insane lagoon Étude and the Arthur Jafa/Richard Prince show (who knew???) artforum.com/columns/venice-…
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Absurd yet seductive, absorbing yet repellent—a vintage-kitsch Las Vegas boudoir appears on the May 2026 cover of Artforum. It comes from the Ho Château, home to Carlotta Champagne, Vegas’s self-styled “Queen of Kitsch.”
ALT Heart shaped bed with various pink and red cushions. Pillow in the middle of the bed features a nude man and woman lying on a beach.
Simon Denny on Palantir, Anduril, and the aesthetics of avant-garde fascism: artforum.com/features/simon-…
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In Artforum’s March 2026 issue, Gordon Hughes considers the art of Carol Bove, which makes “visible the theatricality that is the very hallmark of our time” by exposing “the underlying mechanism that drives theatricality: display.” artforum.com/issue/2026/marc…
In the February @Artforum I wrote about Banks Violette and the long arc of the Bush era. artforum.com/features/banks-…
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In Artforum’s February 2026 issue, @rwetzler reflects on the art of Banks Violette, who rose to prominence in the neo-goth movement of the 2000s. Today, “Violette’s work has returned with a vengeance.” artforum.com/issue/2026/febr…
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In the February issue: Richard Meyer traces the fraught history of Andy Warhol’s most sexually explicit works, @rwetzler on Orphism @Guggenheim, Max Blagg and David Rimanelli remember Gary Indiana, Mario Carpo places AI in dialogue with Mannerism, + more. artforum.com/issue/2025/febr…
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In Artforum’s December issue, dozens of the most interesting and influential artists, curators, and writers working today share their highlights from the previous twelve months. artforum.com/issue/2024/dece…
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New Yorkers screaming, crying at being dragged into basic 20th century sanitation
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Examining the life and work of sculptor Katarzyna Kobro, senior editor @rwetzler asks: Was it still possible to be a utopian if you lived in Poland in 1937? artnews.com/art-in-america/f…
ALT Left: Katarzyna Kobro, "Abstract Sculpture 1," 1924, wood, metal, glass, and oil paint, 28⅜ by 6⅞ by 6 inches. Right: "Abstract Sculpture 2," 1924 (reconstructed 1972), aluminum, wood, and oil paint, 27½ by 11 by 8¼ inches. ©EWA SAPKA-PAWLICZAK AND MUZEUM SZTUKI, ŁÓDŹ
Rachel Wetzler retweeted
So HUNTER BIDEN finds a PIPE “laying around the house” —turns it into some sort of “paint brush” and at 52 years old he’s the new BANKSY? Making more money on Art than Van Gough? Not buying that story. And not buying his crummy drawings. If I want ART give me THOMAS KINKAID.
