Artforum is the leading contemporary art magazine and holds the unique roles of institution, nexus, and foremost tastemaker of the art world. It delivers the highest level of critical discourse about contemporary visual culture to a diverse international audience and is often the first to identify artists whose work comes to define eras. Launched in California in 1962, Artforum moved to New York in 1967, where it is still based.
Mark Rothko, Bill Griffith, Impressionism's contested legacy, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Joseph Backstein, Ho Tzu Nyen, Yuan Goang-Ming shares his Top Ten...
Michael Snow, Hrair Sarkissian, Klára Hosnedlová, Unvanquished: Iraq's art under two decades of occupation, Dark Matter: Pierre Soulages and Pierrette Bloch...
Alex Kitnick on the art of Wolfgang Tillmans; Natalia Brizuela and Julia Bryan-Wilson on the art of Jumana Manna; Alexandro Segade on the Ororocene; Travis Diehl on Alexis Smith's Same Old Paradise, 1987...
For Artforum's historic 60th-anniversary issue, dozens of contributors come together to express the discerning eclecticism that excites the magazine's heart.
Thomas Crow on Billy Apple; Allen Ruppersberg on Margo Leavin; Amy Taubin on Apichatpong Weerasethakul; Anna Shechtman and D. A. Miller on Pedro Almodóvar; Michael Lobel on Romare Bearden in the 1930s; Patric Dicaprio shares his Top Ten; Daniel Marcus on Hannah Wilke; Mostafa Heddaya on art and comparison; Devan Díaz on Drake Carr; Four contributors take stock of "Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror"...
Hannah Baer and Monica Huerta on the Year in Hell; best of 2021: a renowned group of critics, artists, and curators from around the world take stock of the year in art; "Illiberal Arts" by David Joselit; Anne Imhof by Caroline Busta; five celebrated cineastes select the top films of the year; five musicians and critics choose the year's outstanding titles...
My Barbarian, Tauba Auerbach, Petrit Halilaj, This American Wife, Meret Oppenheim, Kayode Ojo, Judy Chicago,Louise Fishman, Yannis Tsarouchis, Ericka Beckman... and more than 35 exhibition reviews from around the globe.
The call is clear: Museums must change. Amid an ongoing global pandemic and growing demands for decolonization, racial justice, and economic parity, culture needs new tools for structural transformation. In the first of two special issues focusing on this urgent topic, Artforum has invited some of our leading theorists, curators, artists, and museum directors to consider how art institutions might evolve.
Carceral Aesthetics: Nicole R. Fleetwood in conversation with Rachel Kushner;
Where We're At: Bulletins from around the globe;
Artist Project: David Velasco introduces Stanley Whitney;
Blasted Allegories: Fabrice Stroun on the art of Steven Parrino...
