In an article for *Tablet Magazine*, former senior web editor Travis Jeppesen details the dramatic decline and fall of *Artforum*, once considered the world's leading contemporary art magazine. He attributes the publication's ruin to toxic office politics, plummeting revenue, severe censorship, and botched leadership following its acquisition by Penske Media and the controversial firing of editor David Velasco. Ultimately, Jeppesen argues that the magazine has lost its editorial vision, integrity, and cultural relevance, reducing it to a hollow shell plagued by corporate compromise and internal decay.
On the decline and fall of what was once the world’s greatest art magazine.
