Daily Newsletter
The True Crime Story of a Notorious Looter
How Douglas Latchford got away with it; plus, Frank Stella’s Navajo weavings.
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Book Review
The Looter Who Built Your Favorite Museum
A new book maps the network that allowed Douglas Latchford to violently rip Khmer statues from their homes and funnel them into Western institutions.
Community
Art Movements: Wolfgang Tillmans Wins Europe's Richest Art Prize
The first public exhibition of Jack White's artwork, Cheryl Finley gets the David C. Driskell Prize, and more news to know.
Community
Required Reading
This week: a record-breaking World Cup mural in Mexico City, the Gen Z of 19th-century France, van Gogh and AI, and more.
Art Review
David Humphrey Is Allergic to Style
The artist challenges the status quo of postmodernism, not by knocking it over but by slyly subverting it.
Obituary
Figurative Expressionist Painter Jay Milder Dies at 92
He carved out a space for himself in the downtown art scene as a bold artist and gallerist who championed contemporaries such as Claes Oldenburg and Jim Dine.
Feature
A Look Into Frank Stella's Mesmerizing Collection of Diné Textiles
The late artist's trove of Navajo weavings is on public display for the first time at Arader Galleries in NYC ahead of a sale.
Daily Newsletter
“In Minor Keys” Is the Biennale’s Crown Jewel
Also, Aruna D’Souza interviews Australian Pavilion artist Khaled Sabsabi.
Art Review
Centuries of Endurance Undergird “In Minor Keys”
The main exhibition of the 2026 Venice Biennale sets rage and retribution aside, relaxing the oppressed’s clenched fist for a moment of calm, centeredness, and self-forgiveness.
Interview
Khaled Sabsabi’s Art of Collective Becoming
“I believe in the fact that the people hold the power,” the Lebanese-born representing artist of the Australian pavilion told Hyperallergic.
In Memoriam
Paula Kamps, Painter of Rare Sensitivity, Dies at 36
This week, we also honor Tess Jaray, luminary of abstraction, and Ben Morea, counterculture icon.
News
Engaging With Art Can Slow Aging, Study Claims
A group of researchers at University College London identified a relationship between consuming and creating art and a lower biological age.