Artists

25 Native American Artists to Know

http://www.sgfara.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Kay-WalkingStick-North-Rim-Temple-2023-Oil-on-panel-in-two-2-parts-101.6-x-203.2-x-5.1-cm-40-x-80-x-2-in-K_WAL0392-Photo-by-JSP-Art-Photography-copy.jpg Kay WalkingStick, North Rim Temple, 2023 Courtesy of the artist and Hales, London and New York. Photo: JSP Art Photography. Native American artists have only recently gained a spotlight within the mainstream art world. For centuries, Native art was siloed on reservations, at trading posts, and in Indian markets, with no dedicated Indigenous commercial …

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In New Documentary, Artist Marilyn Minter Overcomes the Burden of Shame in the Art World

Marilyn Minter in New York City, ca. 1970s-’80s. Courtesy Pretty Dirty: The Life and Times of Marilyn Minter Pretty Dirty: The Life and Times of Marilyn Minter—a new documentary that screened as part of the DOC NYC film festival at IFC Center on Thursday—exposes the perhaps underrated value that a sense of humor carries in …

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A Show at the National Gallery Highlights the Role of Photography in the Black Arts Movement

Doris A. Derby, Black-owned Grocery Store, Sunday, Mileston, Mississippi, 1968 National Gallery of Art. Artwork copyright © Doris A. Derby. In a 1968 photograph by Doris Derby, a young girl longingly peers into the window of a toy store in Jackson, Mississippi. Within the image, Derby captures another photographer holding an 8mm camera, kneeling and …

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Robert Therrien’s World of Everyday Wonder Emerges in a LA Retrospective

Robert Therrien, Under the Table, 1994. Photo Joshua White/JWPictures.com/Courtesy the Broad Art Foundation When Robert Therrien passed away in 2019 at 71, he left behind a series of small note cards, each bearing a labeled line drawing. To those closest to him, they felt like legends that, if decoded, might reveal something of the elusive …

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Mindy Seu’s Latest Lecture, ‘A Sexual History of the Internet,’ Is a Grand Financial Experiment

Mindy Seu performs her lecture “A Sexual History of the Internet.” Max Lakner Editor’s note: This story is the latest edition of Link Rot, a new column by Shanti Escalante-De Mattei that explores the intersections of art, technology, and the internet. Now that I’ve captured your attention, please buy my book. Or my skin cream. Or my …

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9 Works to Know in “View Finding: Selections from the Walther Collection” at the Met

Installation view of “View Finding: Selections from the Walther Collection,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 28, 2025–May 3, 2026 Hyla Skopitz Last May the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced that photography collector Artur Walther, via his Walther Family Foundation, had made a promised gift to the museum of more than …

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Ayoung Kim, a South Korean Star, Takes Over New York with a MoMA PS1 Show and a Motion-Caption Performance

Ayoung Kim. Photo Kanghyuk (snakepool)/Courtesy the artist and Gallery Hyundai Perhaps more than any other artwork made during the 2020s, Ayoung Kim’s video Delivery Dancer’s Sphere (2022) captures the dizzying, unsettled quality that characterized so much of the world under Covid-induced lockdown. But this is not a video about isolation or illness, or even a …

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Is Eugène Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People a Painting for Our Times?

Eugène Delacroix Liberty Leading the People, 1830 Wikimedia Commons. There’s perhaps no more stirring an example of political art than Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863). Measuring roughly 8½ by 10½ feet, the painting was completed in 1830 to celebrate France’s July Revolution of the same year, which overthrew the Bourbon monarch, Charles …

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Naotaka Hiro Pushes His Body to Its Limits Using Abstract Painting

Naotaka Hiro. Christopher Garcia Valle/ARTnews Seven years ago, Naotaka Hiro was at the airport in Los Angeles when he received a harrowing text from his wife. “There’s someone underneath the house,” she wrote. “Someone’s coughing.” He abruptly canceled his flight to Japan and rushed home to his panicked spouse. Hiro ventured into the crawlspace beneath …

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