Artists

A demonstrator holds up a reproduction of Patrick Martinez’s Abolish Ice (2018/2021) at an anti-ICE demonstration in downtown Los Angeles, June 2025. Courtesy the artist and Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles We often look back on past moral crises and imagine ourselves acting differently: resisting sooner, refusing silence, choosing courage over complicity. It’s a reassuring fiction, …

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Mildred Howard in her Oakland studio, 2025. Photo Christine Cueto/Courtesy Oakland Museum of California The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) will stage a major retrospective for Bay Area artist Mildred Howard, opening next June. Titled “Poetics of Memory,” the exhibition will bring together work from across five decades of Howard’s career and will also debut …

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Minnie Evans, Untitled (Four Figures Collage), 1961–67. ©The Estate of Minnie Evans/Collection of John Jerit We are coming to understand that art history rarely moves in a straight line. Whereas the canon was once seen in the West as a series of successive movements, now it is recognized as a cascade of different artists working …

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Modern Art Foundry in 1947, shortly after it moved to its longtime home. Courtesy Modern Art Foundry Founded in 1932, Modern Art Foundry is one of the oldest foundries in the United States. Located in Astoria, Queens, since 1944, the foundry has a history in producing well-known sculptures, from José de Creeft’s Alice in Wonderland …

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Gustav Klimt, The Kiss, 1907–1908 Belvedere Museum, Vienna. In 1900, the events of the 20th century still lay ahead, its horrors and epochal upheavals unknown. But in one European metropolis, signs of that future could be gleaned from the social, political, and artistic unrest that roiled it. Vienna in the years leading up to World …

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Vincent van Gogh, Irises, 1889 The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Using post as a prefix for a chapter in art history can strike the ear as suggesting a period that, if not exactly a letdown from the one immediately preceding it, was too eclectic to earn its own specific title. Such was the …

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WangShui. Photo Jose Peas Artists who work with technology are typically viewed as nerds sequestered in studios filled with hardware, gadgetry, and complex wiring. But WangShui, an artist who made their name on innovative abstract paintings made with the assistance of AI, positions themself less as a geek than a hermit with a romantic worldview. …

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Dornac (Paul Francois Arnold Cardon), Auguste Rodin seated beside his work in his studio Collection Archives Larousse, Paris. Digital image: Bridgeman Images. Aside from Michelangelo, there’s no artist as synonymous with sculpture as Auguste Rodin (1840–1917). He created an art-historical icon—The Thinker—that rivals Leonardo’s Mona Lisa for pop-cultural fame. But more than this, he set …

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Tishan Hsu. ©2025 Tishan Hsu/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Tishan Hsu saw the future coming as early as the 1980s, when he began producing abstract paintings with sculptural additions that looked variously like warping screens and torqued body parts. Beyond the body horror seen in David Cronenberg’s films, there wasn’t much out there that …

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Installation view of “Black Earth Rising,” Baltimore Museum of Art, May 18—September 21, 2025. Meg Rorison. The year 2025 saw several solo exhibitions by well-known Black artists, including Kerry James Marshall, Amy Sherald, Rashid Johnson, Jack Whitten, Lorna Simpson, and Elizabeth Catlett. Following his exhibition at the Royal Academy in London, Marshall is lauded as …

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