Noah Becker's whitehot magazine of contemporary art

Whitehot Magazine

December 2025

"The Best Art In The World"

"The Best Art In The World"
December 2025

latest articles

New York City

Riad Miah

Where Meaning Hesitates: On Aglaé Bassens’ ‘Vacant’ by Riad Miah

Karin Davie: It Comes In Waves at Miles McEnery Gallery - Review by Riad Miah

Chicago

Esme Graham

Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle: A Want for Nothing

Chicago

Bianca Bova

In Praise of eBay

New York City

Peter Kelly

E'wao Kagoshima @ Center for Art, Research and Alliances

LuYang: The Great Adventure of Material World @ Museum of the Moving Image

London UK

Aram Masharqa

'a wound on my plate': Tolia Astakhishvili at Emalin, London

New York City

Daniel Maidman

Breakthrough: Patricia Watwood’s “The Fey Wild” at New York Artists Equity Association Inc.

New York City

Jan Garden Castro

Swoon Glows at a Silver Art Gala at the World Trade Center

New York City

Claudia

Interview with Crispin Hellion Glover

Catch the last days of the Vladimir Kanevsky “Porcelain Garden” while it blooms at The Frick. Now until Nov 17, 2025

Whitehot Magazine at Tom Sachs Studio preview of Phaidon’s new book "Tom Sachs Guide"

New York City

Noah Becker

Tips for Collectors: Noah Becker's Choice of a Single Painting

Book Review: Joel Meyerowitz, A Sense of Wonder: Fotographie 1962 2022

Interview with Hannah Beerman

Leo Frontini has quickly established himself as a painter to watch

London UK

Delia Cabral

Golden: DEEP RYCA at Helm Gallery

Frieze Art Fair 2025: Three Dimensions and a Revelation

Berlin, Germany

Jeffrey Grunthaner

Interview: Trisha Baga at Société, Berlin

Miami, Florida

Bruce Helander

Cracked, Smashed & Plastered: Julian Schnabel’s Blue-Plate Specials with a Twist at Mnuchin Gallery

New York City

Liam Otero

Exhibition Review: “David Szauder: Glitches & Glory” at Elza Kayal Gallery, Tribeca (October 29 - November 21, 2025)

Art in the City of Brotherly Love: A Contemporary Moment in Philadelphia

“Threads of Belonging: Ten Emerging Asian Women Artists” at Hollis Taggart Downtown

New York City

Scott Orr

Miami Art Week 2025: Your Essential Guide to the Fairs, Exhibits, and Chaos

At Hauser & Wirth: Franz Gertsch’s Monumental Patti Smiths

Joan Mitchell's Dark Mediterranean: “That Awful Thing Called Nature”

Louise Bourgeois’ Psychological Abstraction at Hauser & Wirth

Espace Louis Vuitton New York Pop-Up: Impressionist Painter and Patron Gustave Caillebotte

Flora Yukhnovich Coast to Coast: From Gilded Age Manhattan to LA’s Right Now

London UK

Grace Palmer

‘Everything is Sculptural’: Interview with Tony Cragg at Lisson Gallery, London

Being ‘In the Moment’ at the National Museum of Norway: An Interview with Curator, Geir Haraldseth and Contributing Artist, SAGG Napoli

New York City

Colleen Dalusong

Exhibition Review: All the World's a Stage at SoMad

Exhibition Review: Delivery Dancer Codex is a Waste of Time

Exhibition Review: Cora Cohen's Poetics of Sensation

New York City

Janet Goleas

Eric Fischl: STORIES TOLD

Los Angeles, California

Yezi Lou

Exhibition Review - Traces: Sigrid Xiyuan Qian at Sasse Museum of Art

New York City

Oceana Andries

"Too Bright to Feel" at Mixed Media Space

New York City

Wesley Yuen

Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver: almost 40 photo-portraits by Christos Dikeakos - article and photos by Wesley Yuen

New York City

Raphy Sarkissian

The Chromatic Logic of Georg Karl Pfahler

Rebecca Allan: Materiality and Musicality

New York City

Edward Waisnis

Janis Provisor's Resuscitative Abstraction

Ana Cláudia Almeida’s Emoting Abstraction

New York City

Ruben Natal-San Miguel

Carmen Dell'Orefice: The Ultimate Role Model

Diane von Furstenberg Film Screening at Soho House New York

New York City

Serena Hanzhi Wang

Exhibition Review: Edge of Illusions, Mriya Gallery, Tribeca

Exhibition Review - "Entangled" at Latitude Gallery

What Rain Tells You at Flowing Space Gallery

New York City

Donald Kuspit

Homage To Death: David Ligare’s New Paintings - Article by Donald Kuspit

New York City

Anthony Haden-Guest

Anthony Haden-Guest on Book World

Word-toons by Anthony Haden-Guest

Art Meets Elegance: Debbie Dickinson’s ‘Esthétique’ Lights Up the Arthouse Hotel

Los Angeles, California

Jane Horowitz

Marilyn Minter at Regen Projects: Painting After Shame

Los Angeles, California

Saša Bogojev

Interview With Andrew Sendor by Saša Bogojev

Los Angeles, California

Marcarson

The Spector Family Foundation, together with celebrated curator Glenn Adamson, announces today the launch of the Spector Craft Prize and an inaugural partnership with Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

Interview with Painter Barak Wrobel

South Africa

Petra Mason

Roger Ballen's Inside Out Foundation in Johannesburg, South Africa

New York City

Kurt Cole Eidsvig

Mastery of Scale: Lorna Simpson’s Source Notes at The Met

New York City

Stephanie Huber

“Sacred leftovers and all that is left behind” Cass (Haozhong) Yao's Errant Progeny at Baba Yaga Gallery

New York City

Sophie Howe

Nicole Eisenman: STY, at David Zwirner

New York City

Myles Fucci

Toward the Unconscious: An Interview with Francesca Schwartz

New York City

Daryl Rashaan King

Book Review: Wicked Arts Education: Designing Creative Programmes

Younguk Yi — Mutant Lab at the Hole: The future of urban life and cultural through art, mutation, and survival in a changing world.

New York City

Josh Niland

R. Crumb: A Backward Glance

New York City

Clare Gemima

You Think That’s Funny? at The Hammond Museum and Japanese Stroll Garden

Kathy Goodell's In the Darkness I See at Private Public Gallery

New York City

Coco Dolle

Hiroshi Senju: The Art of the Metaphysical Abyss at Sundaram Tagore Gallery - by Coco Dolle

New York City

Piper Olivas

Mark Ryden: Eye Am at Perrotin Los Angeles

New York City

Emma Cieslik

An altar to the sky, made by Mexican artist Paloma Vianey

The magic of making art and art of making magic: An exploration of Laura Tempest Zakroff’s sigil work

Los Angeles, California

Gary Brewer

Into the Jungle: A Duo Exhibition

New York City

Phil Zheng Cai

Stephanie Creaghan: The Crumbs of Our Time

New York City

Mike Maizels

"Life Can’t Be Stopped" at the Guggenheim Museum, or Rauschenberg @ 100

New York City

WM

Podcast: Greg Haberny at his current exhibit at Satellite Gallery

New York City

Ayse Sarioglu

Robert Kobayashi at Susan Inglett

New York City

Rui Jiang

While the Mantis Hunts the Cicada: Performance “Résistance” by Lucia Shuyu Li & Young-Jun Lee