The Art Journal

Private Views: Champagne Socialism at the Whitney Art Party

In the first dispatch from her new column on the New York art scene, writer Gabriella Angeleti tries to pin down Zohran Mamdani's wife on the dancefloor

Gabriella Angeleti

Was Martin Parr Just Taking the Piss?

Behind the ice creams, leisure parks and plastic excess lay a photographer who turned consumer culture back on itself – and refused to play the art market’s scarcity game.

Simon Bainbridge

The Ghost of Franco

Fifty years after the dictator’s death, Spain’s artists and museums are confronting a legacy that refuses to stay in the past

Alexandra F. Coego

AIDS Is Not Over. Why Does Its Art Feel So Historical?

HIV is not a closed chapter, yet AIDS-related art is increasingly treated as one. As institutions and markets embrace this work, what is lost when urgency becomes history?

Millen Brown-Ewens