Tina Rivers Ryan
@TinaRiversRyan
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Editor in Chief @artforum. Art historian and critic specializing in video and digital art. Disabled. Cybergoth. Mom. She/her.
Joined May 2009
It’s official!: “Electric Op” opens to the public on 9/27 at the @BuffaloAKG! So lucky/honored that my swan song as a curator features literal scores of amazing artists: https://t.co/uUkgnJ6OzX (Yes there will be a catalog—and some fun merch too ;)
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In this episode of “Under the Cover,” Artforum Editor in Chief @tinariversryan visits the @studiomuseum in Harlem to speak with curator Connie H. Choi about the museum’s reopening.
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Connie H. Choi talks to Artforum's Editor in Chief about the artist Tom Lloyd and his significance to the museum's reopening in Harlem.
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For Artforum’s November 2025 issue, Editor in Chief Tina Rivers Ryan sat down with Studio Museum director Thelma Golden and curator Connie H. Choi to discuss Tom Lloyd and the Studio Museum in Harlem.
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Tina Rivers Ryan interviews Thelma Golden and Connie H. Choi on the artist Tom Lloyd and the Studio Museum in Harlem.
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Something I wrote will be in the November print issue of Artforum. 👀
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Had kinda the ultimate "How it started / How it's going" summary today: Woke up to find that my first ever NFT series from 2017, Digital Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility had been collected by JediWolf, @randomcdog, for 8.5ETH. At the same time, the most recent issue
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the full spread of the wonderful review of Infinite Images in @Artforum including 🎯 paragraph about Hugs on Tape "...LoVid has been bringing analog tools and techniques into conversation with digital platforms, resulting in works that look simultaneously high-tech and lo-fi..."
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Who has helped Hank Willis Thomas forge his path as an artist? For Artforum’s Under the Influence video series, the conceptual artist details the people who have shaped his vision over the years.
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The artist details the people who have shaped his vision over the years from Larry Sultan, to Rashid Johnson, and his mother Deborah Willis.
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Filmmaker Ken Jacobs, a towering figure in the world of experimental cinema, died of kidney failure on October 5 in New York. He was ninety-two.
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Filmmaker Ken Jacobs, a towering figure in the world of experimental cinema, died of kidney failure on October 5 in New York. He was ninety-two.
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A new policy requiring the NEA to review grant applicants to make certain they comply with a White House executive order regarding “gender ideology” has been found unconstitutional by a Rhode Island federal court.
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A Rhode Island federal court on September 19 ruled that the National Endowment for the Arts could not require grant applicants to comply with a White House order prohibiting “gender ideology."
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Payton Gendron was inspired by the rhetoric of Charlie Kirk to massacre 10 innocent Black people in Tops market in Buffalo. Hate speech is not free speech, my community has paid the cost and somebody had better say/do something.
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In Artforum’s September 2025 issue, @andrewberardini considers the art of Ali Eyal, whose work, though “inseparable from the American war in Iraq . . . which he lived through, and which too many of his loved ones did not,” is also “shaped by, and perhaps filtered through, the
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Andrew Berardini examines Iraqi artist Ali Eyal's paintings of memory and loss.
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Palestinian artist, educator, and activist Samia Halaby has been announced as the recipient of this year’s Munch Award celebrating artistic freedom.
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Palestinian artist, educator, and activist Samia Halaby has been announced as the recipient of this year’s Munch Award celebrating artistic freedom.
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Following Severance’s eight wins at the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards last night, Artforum revisits Gordon Hughes’s essay on the AppleTV+ series, which “clearly spoke to those of us who feel more and more dissociation between our innie and outie selves.”
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Gordon Hughes reviews Apple TV’s Severance, reading the show as an allegory of contemporary labor relations.
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Agnieszka Kurant outsourced the sculptural work of her series “A.A.I.”—“artificial artificial intelligence”—to seven million termites. In Artforum’s current issue, Christy Lange makes the case that the series “offers a key to [Kurant’s] ongoing themes.”
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Christy Lange profiles Agnieszka Kurant, whose work uses new technologies to explore the collective intelligence of non-human organisms.
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Like hundreds of others, I was targeted by Charlie Kirk's "Professor Watchlist" project and spuriously accused of being a "Terror Supporter" and an "Antisemite". The legacy of Charlie Kirk is hatred, surveillance and anti-intellectual harassment.
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Drew Daniel is an English Professor at the Johns Hopkins University. His research interests include “Early Modern Literature,” “Critical Theory” and “Aesthetics.” On November 6, 2023, the Council o
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I try not to be gruesome on here but lemme be clear: If your dog bites someone and isn’t vaccinated for rabies, your dog will be tested. To test a dog for rabies, they behead them and grind up their brain tissue. You will never get your dog or even their ashes back.
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The Trump administration on August 12 announced that it would conduct a comprehensive review of the Smithsonian Institution’s current and forthcoming exhibitions “to assess tone, historical framing and alignment with American ideals.”
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The Trump administration on August 12 announced it would conduct a review of Smithsonian Institution exhibitions for "alignment with American ideals.”
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omg today. long mental list. here's one thing: our installation at Nantes includes (among other amazing storied items) The FIRST computer in Nantes and the LAST CRT in Nantes. what an honor. Merci. with Salomé Van Eynde who curated the exhibition after @TinaRiversRyan-more soon
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In the latest Artforum Diary, Linda Yablonsky reports from Hydra and Athens, where “something is infusing the atmosphere with palpable brio. Could it be the freedom to imagine a new world that an imperfect, but increasingly tolerant, society allows?”
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Linda Yablonsky explores the Greek art scene including shows at EMST, Hot Wheels, Radio Athènes, Hydra School Projects and the Museum of Cycladic Art.
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