As if demolishing the East Wing, gutting arts agencies, and slapping his name and face on several federal buildings weren't enough, the US president now wants to do away with a DC building known as the "Sistine Chapel of New Deal art." This week, we reported on a burgeoning campaign to save the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, which houses murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, Seymour Fogel, and other major American artists. We will continue to follow this story.
Hello, New York! Hope you all enjoyed those beautiful, peaceful couple hours of snow this weekend, before, well, you know the drill. (By the way, reporting businesses and landowners who haven't shoveled their sidewalks to 311 doesn't make you a narc - change my view). In art-related news, the Whitney Museum announced the 56 participants in its 2026 biennial, which includes some familiar names from New York institutions - Enzo Camacho and Ami Lien, CFGNY, and Samia Halaby among them.
In an era when contemporary culture tends to privilege immediacy, the archive offers resistance by inviting slowness, friction, and a longer view. In this three-part series, Document turns to curators Ruba Katrib, Jovanna Venegas, and Drew Sawyer, photographed on location, wearing Vowels, the brand that finds its own voice through archival research. Each of these curators places the archive at the center of their practice.