Rachel Wetzler

art critic, coeditor of @artforum

[Rachel Wetzler @rwetzler]

@saintsoftness @FeralHeather We had to write ours out longhand in blue books! And there was a bibliography of essays we were meant to have…memorized? And discuss without having access to them during the exam itself. Seems deranged tbh. I cried in the bathroom during the break.

[Rachel Wetzler @rwetzler]

the Venice Biennale is not very good, but the whole thing was redeemed by Florentina Holzinger's insane lagoon Étude and the Arthur Jafa/Richard Prince show (who knew???) https://t.co/rwUVrHEZ8Q

[artforum @Artforum]

Absurd yet seductive, absorbing yet repellent—a vintage-kitsch Las Vegas boudoir appears on the May 2026 cover of Artforum. It comes from the Ho Château, home to Carlotta Champagne, Vegas’s self-styled “Queen of Kitsch.”

[Rachel Wetzler @rwetzler]

@maxabelson max!!!!!!! so fun.

[Rachel Wetzler @rwetzler]

Simon Denny on Palantir, Anduril, and the aesthetics of avant-garde fascism: https://t.co/yd11QR9uOI

[Rachel Wetzler @rwetzler]

@lionel_trolling I like them.

[artforum @Artforum]

In Artforum’s March 2026 issue, Gordon Hughes considers the art of Carol Bove, which makes “visible the theatricality that is the very hallmark of our time” by exposing “the underlying mechanism that drives theatricality: display.” https://t.co/2HBsi6hvKw

[Rachel Wetzler @rwetzler]

@AdrianeQ sorry the main character of love story is the turtleneck in episode 1

[Rachel Wetzler @rwetzler]

In the February @Artforum I wrote about Banks Violette and the long arc of the Bush era. https://t.co/lYCcJCPYwf

[artforum @Artforum]

In Artforum’s February 2026 issue, @rwetzler reflects on the art of Banks Violette, who rose to prominence in the neo-goth movement of the 2000s. Today, “Violette’s work has returned with a vengeance.” https://t.co/SpLRn5kVGw

[artforum @Artforum]

In the February issue: Richard Meyer traces the fraught history of Andy Warhol’s most sexually explicit works, @rwetzler on Orphism @Guggenheim, Max Blagg and David Rimanelli remember Gary Indiana, Mario Carpo places AI in dialogue with Mannerism, + more. https://t.co/mFjNI4hPwF

[artforum @Artforum]

In Artforum’s December issue, dozens of the most interesting and influential artists, curators, and writers working today share their highlights from the previous twelve months. https://t.co/9wNvUyLJ1M

[Rachel Wetzler @rwetzler]

@ChaseMadar but what percentage of US adults had heard of Van Gogh in 1889?

[William B. Fuckley @opinonhaver]

New Yorkers screaming, crying at being dragged into basic 20th century sanitation

[Art in America @ArtinAmerica]

Examining the life and work of sculptor Katarzyna Kobro, senior editor @rwetzler asks: Was it still possible to be a utopian if you lived in Poland in 1937? https://t.co/qkZQlshTzj

[꩜ @laylology]

yikes, unfollowing him now. i'm a big fan of his paintings, i had no idea he started the war on terror

[Greg Kelly @gregkellyusa]

So HUNTER BIDEN finds a PIPE “laying around the house” —turns it into some sort of “paint brush” and at 52 years old he’s the new BANKSY? Making more money on Art than Van Gough? Not buying that story. And not buying his crummy drawings. If I want ART give me THOMAS KINKAID.

[Artie Vierkant @avierkant]

“what are the common objects that we love” ... mr Biden welcome to the staedelschule