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*We asked the beloved novelist, whose book *Transcription* is out in April, to single out one artwork that impacted him.

There is a fable that persists in even themost respectable quarters, perhaps because it has retained its power to shock for more than half a century.

Imagine I asked you to name the famous Italian Renaissance artist who angered his patron by repeatedly missing deadlines because he was busy studying perspective.

When *Art in America* was founded in 1913, it was an important year for American art.

As I stood in front of a black screen, a luminous alien creature with five legs and translucent antennae appeared.

“I’ve been living … a great deal in my** **memories lately,” the Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck wrote in 1937.

Photographer Cindy Sherman has made just one feature film to date—*Office Killer,* a 1997 box-office flop that was unloved by critics, such as the *New York Times’s* Stephen Holden, who called the movie “sadly inept” and “crude.

Henry Darger left behind one of the strangest imaginative monuments of the twentieth century: a vast private cosmos teeming with angelic child armies, sadistic empires, blizzards, tornadoes, serpentine sky-beasts, and wars fought over th...

The formative graffiti artist and hip-hop pioneer, whose memoir Everybody’s Fly: A Life of Art, Music, and Changing the Culture was published on March 10, discusses Black piracy and news of the day.

When a monument to Confederate General Stonewall Jackson was decommissioned in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2021, curator Hamza Walker managed to get ahold of it and transported it to a warehouse in New Jersey.

Lucy Raven’s film work *Murderers Bar* (2025) captures the removal of a dam in the Pacific Northwest and the dramatic release of water that takes the form of a newly born river as it rushes from Oregon through Northern California on its...

Ai Weiwei has flaunted, skirted, interrogated, and in countless other ways resisted censorship over the course of a decadeslong career beginning in his native China and transpiring around the world.

Drawing from her background in anthropology, Maia Chao often approaches art with an observation, then a question: Where *does *the art in doctors’ offices come from?

*In many ways, the confrontational cover of this issue needs no explanation: Lady Liberty is dead.

Art in America’s Spring Issue Features American Art from A to Z, MAGA’s Theory of Art, a Print by Kara Walker, and More

This year’s Whitney Biennial spotlights “the greater United States”—a term from historian Daniel Immerwahr’s *How to Hide an Empire*.

Get excited: March promises to be an especially good month in the land of arts publishing.