Noah Becker's whitehot magazine of contemporary art

Whitehot Magazine

September 2026

"The Best Art In The World"

"The Best Art In The World"
September 2026

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WM

The Psychological Spaces: Mitchell Johnson and the Strange Reality of Truro

NOT FOR THEM Opens a Cultural Space in Brooklyn

New York City

Colleen Dalusong

Exhibition Review: False Connections - Vivi Zhu’s solo exhibition (Un)Trustworthy Hearts

New York City

Scott Orr

Janette Beckman at Atelier Jolie: The Other Punk Scene Gets its Due in the East Village

Engineering the Impossible: Art Meets Formula 1 on Fifth Avenue

New York City

Jens Bülskämper

Enter Art Fair, Copenhagen: At the Eyecandy Shop

New York City

Anthony Haden-Guest

New York Painter Rick Prol on Painting His History

New York City

Marcarson

The Bishop Gallery presents: “All That Remains, Residue” (curated by: Luz Harmon)

An Interview with Artist Dana-Marie Bullock

New York City

Rob Strati

The Rise of the Art(ist’s) Market - Cj Hendry & Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, Matisse & Vollard: How Art Worlds Evolve

Children of the Revolution: The Transformative Power of the Past

New York City

Mer Mora

Paz Sher’s Dumb Luck and the Familiarity of Damage

New York City

Emann Odufu

The Material Matrix: Bio-morph at the Liu Shiming Art Foundation

Gladwell Projects' Multiversal Gallery

New York City

Renée Riccardo

New York City

Soojung Hyun

Unfolding Hidden Histories: Renee Magnanti’s Women Scientists

South Africa

Petra Mason

Beezy Bailey's 'Bring on the Dancing Trees'

South Africa

Teddy Sandler

Framing History with Material at "Recalled/Extracted"

New York City

Kurt Cole Eidsvig

Life/line: Willem de Kooning Drawing at The Art Institute of Chicago

New York City

John Drury

Self-Presenting at the American Folk Art Museum

Book Review - Beyond the Aural, as Approach the Fantastic with Lee “Scratch” Perry

New York City

Shana Nys Dambrot

Wallace Chan in Shanghai - Part 2

Berlin, Germany

Jeffrey Grunthaner

Private Feelings, Public Things: "Goodbye Sadness, Hello Sadness" at Pace Gallery

New York City

Sherly Fan

When Wen-You Looks at Six-Year-Old Wen-You

New York City

Liam Otero

Exhibition Review: “Harrison Haft - Nuclear Eden” at Collective Z Gallery, Chinatown

New York City

Kristina Andersson Bicher

Ian McMahon at Wolfhouse: A Persuasive Pairing of Objects and Space

New York City

Harrison Love

Shamanic Artists: The artist appears in every culture mankind has ever produced.

New York City

Shuhan Zhang

Where the City Slips from View

Everything Is Still Running Normally

New York City

WM

Books: Joel Meyerowitz Morandi's Objects. The Complete Archive of Casa Morandi

New York City

Noah Becker

Interview: Himil H. Ramani on the Meaning of Architecture and Plants

A Conversation with Artist Raymond Salvatore Harmon

Curation is a humble practice: An Interview with Xiao Liu

A conversation with Painter Marcus Jansen

Nari Ward’s Until That Day, presented at the DESTE Foundation Project Space in the Slaughterhouse on Hydra

New York City

Hannah Rothbard

An Age-Old Warning: Three Artists Look to the Biblical Flood Amid the Climate Crisis

New York City

Yezi Lou

Chinning Liu: From biological to social metabolism

New York City

Gladys Lou

Looping Voices: Language Transformation in The Cave of Tongues

New York City

Daniel Gianfranceschi

Sterling Ruby: Phosphenic Matter

New York City

Riad Miah

DNA Residency: The Space Between

New York City

Anggi Pande

Immensity of Blue at Jane Lombard Gallery

New York City

Paul Laster

What Happens in Basel…

It All Starts in Zürich

New York City

Sivan Lavie

Lloyd Foster's Spiritual Technology at Anton Kern

Run To See Goran Medak at White Columns (closing soon!)

New York City

Ewa Zebrowski

Tatia Franchetti Twombly: Tender Moments Lost in Time, Now Found

New York City

Margherita Artoni

David Hockney's Moon Room: The Last Light at Pace Gallery

Cao Fei's Prophecy - Kunstmuseum Basel

New York City

Clare Gemima

Interview with Kathryn Kampovsky on her solo exhibition, The Fade

New York City

James Salomon

Andrea & Wilma at the Ponderosa.

New York City

Richard Pasquarelli

In the Weeds - A DayDream conversation with James Salomon

New York City

Lara Pan

Generation X at Deste Foundation

250 Years of the Albertina Museum: Collecting, Preservation, and the Future of Art Richard Prince and Other Stories

New York City

Maurita Cardone

Review: “He Spoke To The Birds”

Chicago

Esme Graham

Longer Than the Sky: Art of the Obama Years

Kazuhito Tanaka: Picture(s)

Chicago

Nate Hester

Exhibition Review: Laurie Fader’s “Opium Dreams” at Moremen Gallery On View Through August 30th

Chicago

Emma Cieslik

“Art in times like this:” How making art fights not just ICE but fascist regimes, in conversation with Danae Nunez

“The primary art form of the 21st century” Reviewing Culture Lab LIC’s Groundbreaking Exhibition Queens: The Art of Drag & NYC

Chicago

Edward Waisnis

Michael De Feo: In, Out, Around and On Top of Fashion

Chicago

Prisca Pan

The $5,000 Artists Who Became $3 Million Names and the Man Behind It

Chicago

Jakob Dwight

In Conversation: Intermedia Art Pioneer Claudia Hart

Chicago

Kun Sok

Richard Estes: When Photographs Stand on Their Own

Chicago

Sydney Srnka

Exhibition Review: “Nancy Bowen, From A to Z and the Bodies in Between” at Nunu Fine Art, SoHo

Chicago

Carlota Gamboa

Naomi Livia’s Embodied Photo-Weaves

Brittany Markert Doesn't Photograph Dreams - She Builds Rooms for Them

New York City

Tara Parsons

Hafsa Nouman’s Facsimile & the Colorless, All-Color

New York City

Serena Hanzhi Wang

Review for The Bitterest Ice Cream at FLOHAUS - New York

New York City

Fanfan Yuxuan Fan

The Overslept Mayfly: Ailyn Lee and Tianshu Zhang, curated by Shuang Cai at Latitude Gallery in Lower East Side, Manhattan.

New York City

Richard Allen May III

Kevin A. Williams : Super-Realism, Directism, and The canon of Black Figurative art

New York City

Byron Armstrong

TOAF65: An Art Fair That Reflects The Cultural Mosaic of a City In Flux

New York City

Mitchell Johnson

Review: Izzy Barber at Charles Moffett Gallery, New York

New York City

Joseph Nechvatal

Future Ruins / Diamond Seas on Robert Hobbs’s Chris Dorland Monograph Future Ruins and the Sonic Youth / John Oswald’s Diamond Seas vinyl LP

New York City

Nina Mdivani

Postcard from Frankfurt, Discovering Arp Kovacs: Painting Between Perception and Reality

New York City

Ken Krantz

How to Win the Sixpoint Brewery "Beer is Culture" Art Contest