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For our print subscribers: Deliveries of mail during the holidays from an overwhelmed US Postal Service have been inordinately slow. Our latest issue—the January 14 issue—was mailed on December 28. We know that some subscribers have still not received their issues and we hope and expect the issues to be delivered to everyone soon. Read the January 14 issue here.

Valeria Luiselli

Things as They Are

Dorothea Lange created a vast archive of the twentieth century’s crises in America. For years her work was censored, misused, impounded, or simply rejected.

November 19, 2020 issue

David Salle

Object Lessons

Has there ever been an artist more sure of himself than Donald Judd?

December 17, 2020 issue

Gillian White

A Month in the Life

A new edition of Bernadette Mayer’s Memory helps us rediscover a poet whose experiments create a new relationship between poem and reader.

January 14, 2021 issue

Julian Bell

The Body in Swooping Close-Up

The National Gallery’s Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition foregrounds the will and charisma of the painter’s female figures.

December 17, 2020 issue

Anna Shapiro

A Revolution of Mexican Art in America

The Whitney’s show, “Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art,” is a study in revisionism, recasting the standard story so that those formerly disregarded and excluded from the canon of modern American art are instead given a place in it.

July 20, 2020

Gerhard Richter: Group of People, 66 15/16 x 78 3/4 inches, 1965

Susan Tallman

The Master of Unknowing

Gerhard Richter is contemporary art’s great poet of uncertainty; his work sets the will to believe and the obligation to doubt in perfect oscillation.

May 14, 2020 issue

Martín Ramírez: Untitled, 45 1/2 x 31 inches, circa 1948–1952

Sanford Schwartz

Band of Outsiders

“Memory Palaces: Inside the Collection of Audrey B. Heckler” at the American Folk Art Museum

December 5, 2019 issue

Jacopo Tintoretto: The Last Supper, 87 x 162 5/8 inches, circa 1563–1564

Colm Tóibín

Tintoretto’s Wildness

‘Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice’ at the National Gallery of Art, through July 7, 2019

May 9, 2019 issue

The Latest

Peter Lowe

A World Without Us: Josef Koudelka’s ‘Ruins’

These photographs of ancient sites, taken around the Mediterranean between 1991 and 2015, are particularly apt in our time of isolation and upheaval.

January 16, 2021

Anna Badkhen

‘Bright Unbearable Reality’: Migration As Seen from Above

Aerial photography has historically documented warscapes, mass migration, and now the effects of the global pandemic.

January 2, 2021

Salamishah Tillet

‘I Wanted to Paint What I Know’: An Interview with Jordan Casteel

Casteel’s first solo exhibition in New York City, ‘Within Reach,’ is a collection of large-scale oil portraits, on view at the New Museum for just one more week.

December 26, 2020