In the final section of “Picasso in Asia—A Conversation,” museumgoers can watch the short documentary “Visite à Picasso” and follow along with his painting process on accompanying screens. Lok Cheng/Courtesy M+ Museum, Hong Kong Just two years ago, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Picasso’s death, dozens of museums across the globe put on shows …
Claudia Alarcón (standing at center) working with members of Silät producing a weaving. Photo Sergio Abraham When she was 12, Claudia Alarcón learned the yica stitch, which doubles as both a loop of yarn and a form of knowledge in the Wichí tradition. For generations, Wichí women in Argentina and Bolivia have taught their daughters …
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Sun Yitian. ©Yu Lu/Courtesy ELLE Artist Sun Yitian’s trajectory over the past decade has been fast and vertical. Her photorealist paintings of mass-produced consumer objects—an inflatable penguin, a Ken doll head, a pair of stiletto heels—sell for up to six figures. She’s unfazed by her market success, saying simply that she leaves those considerations to …
Kevin Beasley, PROSCENIUM| Rebirth/Growth: The Watch/Harvest/Dormancy: On Reflection, 2024–25. Photo Jeffrey Jenkins/Courtesy the Artist, Casey Kaplan, New York, and Regen Projects, Los Angeles Word of mouth stands to take palpable form this season at the Storm King Art Center, when the idyllic upstate New York sculpture park plays home to an acoustic mirror created by …
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Georges Coran, Délire et paix, 1954. Photo Claude Coran/©Georges Coran/Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris At the Centre Pompidou hangs a dense, colorful ink painting on cotton in which two figures with white faces and blue skin hold court in a lush thicket of flora and fauna. According to the work’s title, they are …
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Ei Arakawa-Nash with his twins. Ricardo Nagaoka/Courtesy of the Japan Foundation Los Angeles–based performance artist Ei Arakawa-Nash will represent Japan at the 2026 Venice Biennale, the Japan Foundation announced Thursday. A curator has not been announced yet. For the Pavilion, Arakawa-Nash will create a new installation that, according to the announcement, will explore his perspective …
Ronen Zien, Walking Into, 2024. Courtesy the artist Ronen Zien dreams about crossing over. In his moving works the artist, born in the Arab city of Shefa Amr in northern Israel, traverses time, space, memory, and even borders—conjuring in images what he can only imagine doing in reality. Zien walks up a hill on a …
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Thèrëse Bonney, Tamara de Lempicka in her studio, 1928 Collection of the Bibliothëque historique de la Ville de Paris. Photograph copyright © Thèrëse Bonney. Digital image BHVP/Parisienne de Photographie. Courtesy of the de Young Museum, San Francisco. I’m going places, Tamara de Lempicka seems to be saying in Tamara in the Green Bugatti, her iconic …
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Kim Yun Shin in her studio. Courtesy the artist, Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul, and London; and Kukje Gallery, Seoul and Busan. Photo by Lee Woojeong. Kim Yun Shin’s carefully carved wood and stone sculptures don’t look like they were made by someone using a chainsaw. It’s an unusual tool for a 90-year-old artist, but …
Kim Yun Shin Has Been Sculpting in Solitude for Decades. The World Has Finally Noticed. Read More »
Anselm Kiefer installation, Where have all the flowers gone , 2024, at the Stedelijk Museum. Courtesy Stedelijk Museum The Stedelijk Museum’s large staircase is grand—it immediately lends the museum a sense of majesty. But these days, that staircase leads to something unsettling: At its summit, visitors face a towering set of panels layered with soil, …
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