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Hannah Höch’s Fortuitous Beauty

A curator reveals how the renegade Dada artist kept evolving her trailblazing use of photomontage.

The Afterlives of Slavery and Cameron Rowland’s Readymades

Take a close look at Rowland’s works in Arthur Jafa’s Artist’s Choice exhibition.

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How Sheree Hovsepian Builds a Body

We visited the artist in her studio, where the camera is a catalyst for things beyond photography.

Postcards

Lagos: Studio by Studio

A personal travelogue charts modern echoes in Nigerian contemporary art.

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Nine Works That Defined Marcel Duchamp’s Career

Discover how the iconoclastic artist changed modern art.

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Kayla E.’s The Knot Is Not

The artist asks what we give up when we make art.

Tribute

Remembering Melvin Edwards (1937–2026)

We pay tribute to a sculptor who turned iron, chains, and wire into powerful monuments.

Duchamp and the Museum

In this excerpt from the Marcel Duchamp exhibition catalogue, read about the artist’s attempts to radically reshape the concept of an art institution.

Eight Days, 27 Guests: Sophie Calle’s The Sleepers

Discover one of Calle’s earliest photographic projects.

One on One: Frida Kahlo’s Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair

Kahlo may be the ultimate artist of self-­expression—and self-construction.

Taking the Elevator Down into Time with Peggy Weil

In an age of AI, an artist considers what constitutes a human, and what constitutes a landscape.

Jell-O, Atomic Bombs, and the Curve: Fred Eversley’s Parabolic Lens

Is the iridescent sculpture in Arthur Jafa’s Artist’s Choice exhibition really a machine?