The editor of Artforum was fired for it. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/26/a...
Artforum Fires Top Editor After Its Open Letter on Israel-Hamas War (Published 2023)
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July 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The editor of Artforum was fired for it. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/26/a...
I love Artforum. Such a great magazine.
November 6, 2023 at 1:51 PM
I love Artforum. Such a great magazine.
Artforum newsletter focuses on their LA art archives today —> view.email.artforum.com?qs=695b9dab8...
Artforum From the Archive
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January 21, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Artforum newsletter focuses on their LA art archives today —> view.email.artforum.com?qs=695b9dab8...
Out today: a major new essay by former Artforum editor David Velasco, fired over a pro-Palestine open letter, surveying 2 years of turmoil in the art world, which was "practically designed to celebrate and aestheticize every rebellion" -- except Gaza. www.equator.org/articles/how...
How Gaza Broke the Art World • EQUATOR
The former editor of Artforum, fired in the wake of 7 October, reckons with two years of division, fear and silence
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December 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Out today: a major new essay by former Artforum editor David Velasco, fired over a pro-Palestine open letter, surveying 2 years of turmoil in the art world, which was "practically designed to celebrate and aestheticize every rebellion" -- except Gaza. www.equator.org/articles/how...
Cosmetic Psychiatry by Brian Eno in ARTFORUM Summer 1993 www.moredarkthanshark.org/eno_int_wer-...
January 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Cosmetic Psychiatry by Brian Eno in ARTFORUM Summer 1993 www.moredarkthanshark.org/eno_int_wer-...
Something I wrote will be in the November print issue of Artforum. 👀
October 30, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Something I wrote will be in the November print issue of Artforum. 👀
Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext And The History Of Writing by Brian Eno in ARTFORUM November 1991 www.moredarkthanshark.org/eno_int_artf...
April 9, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext And The History Of Writing by Brian Eno in ARTFORUM November 1991 www.moredarkthanshark.org/eno_int_artf...
Penske also owns the 3 largest contemporary art publications: artforum, artnews, and art in america. I signed a boycott with other artists and art writers after the eic of artforum was dismissed for publishing an open letter in support of Palestinians:
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An Attestation for Editorial Independence
An Attestation for Editorial Independence October 27, 2023 In light of alleged interference with the editorial independence of Artforum, which comes after a multi-year period of corporate consolid...
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December 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Penske also owns the 3 largest contemporary art publications: artforum, artnews, and art in america. I signed a boycott with other artists and art writers after the eic of artforum was dismissed for publishing an open letter in support of Palestinians:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
February 10, 2026 at 3:47 PM
For this month's issue of Artforum, I wrote about how Jacob Lawrence's art meets our present moment www.artforum.com/features/jac...
Jacob Lawrence and the Unfinished History of American Inequality
Jacob Lawrence’s art bridges past and present, illuminating migration, racial inequities, and collective resilience with striking visual narratives.
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April 1, 2026 at 1:05 PM
For this month's issue of Artforum, I wrote about how Jacob Lawrence's art meets our present moment www.artforum.com/features/jac...
For the latest issue of Artforum I wrote about the culture of “AI” in my sector of academia, arguing that a focus on what it does distracts attention away from examining the exploitative conditions that the hopeful rhetoric of its promise upholds. www.artforum.com/features/gen...
MACHINE YEARNING
Sonja Drimmer critically examines art historians’ recent embrace of generative AI as a tool for humanities research.
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April 1, 2025 at 12:36 PM
For the latest issue of Artforum I wrote about the culture of “AI” in my sector of academia, arguing that a focus on what it does distracts attention away from examining the exploitative conditions that the hopeful rhetoric of its promise upholds. www.artforum.com/features/gen...
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev in fine form in Artforum www.artforum.com/columns/caro...
January 3, 2026 at 3:47 AM
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev in fine form in Artforum www.artforum.com/columns/caro...
Great article about our recent union victory, up at Artforum!
www.artforum.com/news/faculty...
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May 26, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Great article about our recent union victory, up at Artforum!
www.artforum.com/news/faculty...
www.artforum.com/news/faculty...
So Artforum is dead to me now
October 27, 2023 at 4:29 AM
So Artforum is dead to me now
“After a call for a ceasefire in Gaza signed by thousands of artists appeared on its website, Artforum has fired its top editor, David Velasco, claiming that the publication of the letter did not meet its editorial standards.”
Artforum Fires Editor David Velasco After Publication of Letter About Ceasefire in Gaza
Artforum has fired David Velasco after the publication said he put up a letter about a ceasefire in Gaza without the publishers' knowledge.
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October 27, 2023 at 2:40 PM
“After a call for a ceasefire in Gaza signed by thousands of artists appeared on its website, Artforum has fired its top editor, David Velasco, claiming that the publication of the letter did not meet its editorial standards.”
“Maybe it’s that art as defined by Artforum has fuck-all to say to the majority of Americans who are just trying to get by in a country of oligarchs who are likely the same people paging through Artforum.”
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Every Institution Has Constraints!: I Can’t Stop Thinking About the New Artforum Editor-in-Chief’s Letter
There are few forms of writing I find funnier than wordy, defensive, nervous missives from corporations and institutions desperate to cling onto their (weakly) constructed façade of having the “rig…
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June 20, 2024 at 6:19 AM
“Maybe it’s that art as defined by Artforum has fuck-all to say to the majority of Americans who are just trying to get by in a country of oligarchs who are likely the same people paging through Artforum.”
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A little gem in my collection - Brian Eno's Glint (1986) which came as a flexi disc in ARTFORUM Magazine, and was later renamed Lanzarote for his album The Shutov Assembly (1992)
June 27, 2026 at 11:48 AM
A little gem in my collection - Brian Eno's Glint (1986) which came as a flexi disc in ARTFORUM Magazine, and was later renamed Lanzarote for his album The Shutov Assembly (1992)
Man, listening to David Lynch talk about art is the antidote to every pretentious art world wanker.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPTQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPTQ...
David Lynch (1946-2025) on his lifelong devotion to artmaking | INTERVIEWS
YouTube video by Artforum
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January 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Man, listening to David Lynch talk about art is the antidote to every pretentious art world wanker.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPTQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPTQ...
Also much love to Artforum for shouting out a medievalist!
April 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Also much love to Artforum for shouting out a medievalist!
And also Art in America, Art News, and Artforum who fired its EIC for publishing an open letter calling for an Israeli ceasefire after Oct. 7.
The way Penske Media publications are locking Sinners out of their Best of 2025 lists is white supremacist bullshit
Oh you didn’t know Variety and Rolling Stone answer to the same master? Now you do
Oh you didn’t know Variety and Rolling Stone answer to the same master? Now you do
December 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM
And also Art in America, Art News, and Artforum who fired its EIC for publishing an open letter calling for an Israeli ceasefire after Oct. 7.
This is a great talk by David Lynch for the first day of a new year. ARTFORUM video.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPTQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPTQ...
David Lynch (1946-2025) on his lifelong devotion to artmaking | INTERVIEWS
YouTube video by Artforum
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January 1, 2026 at 10:53 AM
This is a great talk by David Lynch for the first day of a new year. ARTFORUM video.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPTQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPTQ...
pleasantly surprised to find some of my old Artforum and Bookforum articles online www.artforum.com/author/r-u-s...
R. U. Sirius
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December 23, 2024 at 1:55 AM
pleasantly surprised to find some of my old Artforum and Bookforum articles online www.artforum.com/author/r-u-s...
I really enjoyed being in conversation with @tinariversryan.bsky.social to discuss my article in the April issue of @artforum.com. You can check out the recording of our conversation here!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP2y...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP2y...
Sonja Drimmer on the empty rhetoric of generative AI | UNDER THE COVER
YouTube video by Artforum
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April 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I really enjoyed being in conversation with @tinariversryan.bsky.social to discuss my article in the April issue of @artforum.com. You can check out the recording of our conversation here!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP2y...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP2y...