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On the cover of Artforum’s October issue, one of Diego Marcon’s animatronic talpids recites an unending mathematical calculation while its pups sleep outside the frame. www.artforum.com/issue/2026/o...

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Artforum @artforum.com · 01/09/2026

Breadwoman lives at the center of the earth. She is so ancient that her face has turned to bread.The mysterious figure created in 1982 by Anna Homler, the Los Angeles–based musician and performance artist, presides over the cover of Artforum’s September issue. www.artforum.com/issue/2026/s...

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Artforum @artforum.com · 01/06/2026

Two of Marc Kokopeli’s blissed-out “South Park”–style figures party on the Summer 2026 cover of Artforum. Trapped inside LCD cabinets, they speak to what Theo Belci, in his feature essay on the artist, describes as the “abandoned adolescent inside each millennial heart.”

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Artforum @artforum.com · 01/05/2026

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.”

Heart shaped bed with various pink and red cushions. Pillow in the middle of the bed features a nude man and woman lying on a beach.

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Artforum @artforum.com · 01/03/2026

On the cover: Carol Bove, Hylomorph I, 2016, found steel, steel, urethane paint, 71 1⁄2 × 42 × 51". Photo: Dan Bradica.

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Artforum @artforum.com · 03/02/2026

On Artforum’s February 2026 cover: Banks Violette, not yet titled (flag) (detail), 2007, aluminum, fluorescent tubes and bulbs, ballasts, wiring, road case, hardware, dimensions variable. Photo: Leslie Artamonow.

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Artforum @artforum.com · 05/01/2026

Cover: Álvaro Urbano, Utopias Are for Birds (Antoine-Laurent-Thomas Vaudoyer, Maison d’un Cosmopolite 1782), 2016, wood, paint, nest, 12 5/8 × 12 5/8 × 12 5/8". From the series “Utopias Are for Birds,” 2012–18.

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Artforum @artforum.com · 01/12/2025

On the December 2025 cover: Bad Bunny performing on the third day of his concert residency, Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot, San Juan, July 13, 2025. Photo: Eric Rojas.

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Artforum @artforum.com · 03/11/2025

On Artforum’s November 2025 cover: Ayoung Kim, Ghost Dancers B (detail), 2022, mannequins, clothes, helmets, gloves, tap case, reinforced case, tempered glass, dimensions variable.

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Artforum @artforum.com · 01/10/2025

On Artforum’s October 2025 cover: Ibrahim Mahama, Beasts of no nation (detail), 2013–22, wood panel wrapped in wax-print cloth and jute thread, 74 × 48".

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Artforum @artforum.com · 29/07/2025

The May 1971 issue of Artforum was the first to showcase the work of a photographer on the cover. The photograph, Diane Arbus’s Boy with a straw hat waiting to march in a pro-war parade, NYC, 1967, accompanied a feature portfolio of Arbus’s work. www.artforum.com/features/fiv...

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Artforum @artforum.com · 02/06/2025

Jessica Simmons-Reid assesses the art of Carmen Winant, whose work “The last safe abortion,” 2024, appears on the cover.

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Artforum @artforum.com · 06/05/2025

In celebration of Birnbaum’s life and work, Artforum revisits the magazine’s March 2009 issue, which featured Birnbaum’s Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman, 1978–79, on its cover. www.artforum.com/features/in-...

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Artforum @artforum.com · 01/05/2025

On Artforum’s May 2025 cover: Mel Bochner, All or Nothing (detail), 2012, oil and acrylic on canvas, two parts, 100 × 85".

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Artforum @artforum.com · 01/04/2025

On the April 2025 cover: Christine Sun Kim, How Do You Hold Your Debt, 2022, charcoal on paper, 44 × 44".

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Artforum @artforum.com · 01/03/2025

On the cover: Kite, Wichahpih’a (a clear night with a star-filled sky or a starlit night) (detail), 2020, silver thread on blue satin, 24 × 24”.

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Artforum @artforum.com · 01/02/2025

On the February 2025 cover: Andy Warhol, The Wrestlers, 1982, gelatin silver print. Installation view, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 2024. Photo: David von Becker. © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

The cover of Artforum’s February 2025 issue, which features Andy Warhol’s 1982 photograph “The Wrestlers,” framed and hung on a green marble wall.

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