Artists

NADA Miami 2025. Photo Kevin Czopek/BFA.com On Tuesday—a sunny, somewhat humid morning—the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) opened the doors for its annual Miami fair. Opening a day before Art Basel’s VIP preview, NADA drew a line at 10 a.m. that stretched down the block and then some. Held at downtown Miami’s Ice Palace Studios, …

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Richard Hunt in Chicago studio, 2020. ©2025 The Richard Hunt Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York “The material basis of my sculpture is metallic opportunities. Bringing pressure to the right points, I draw the aesthetic out of the industrial process,” Richard Hunt, one of the most prolific public sculptors in the United States, …

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Romare Bearden in front of Return of the Prodigal Son, undated. Romare Bearden Papers, The Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc. Even the estate of an artist as acclaimed as Romare Bearden has trouble tracking down the thousands of works he made over the course of his five-decade career. Known as one of America’s foremost collagists, Bearden …

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Yang Fudong. Courtesy UCCA Center for Contemporary Art In his third year of college, the artist Yang Fudong decided to stop speaking. For what became Otherwhere: Not Speaking for Three Months (1993), he communicated largely by writing on his hand or signage. Sometimes he even traced his finger on a cold window and breathed to …

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Keith Haring at his Crack is Wack mural, New York, NY, June 1986. Artwork © The Keith Haring Foundation. Photograph Tseng Kwong Chi © Muna Tseng Dance Projects, Inc., New York The New York–based Keith Haring Foundation announced Tuesday that it has named Simon Castets as its next executive director. Castets, a French American curator …

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An installation view of works in Craig Boagey’s “Spirit Economy” at Amanita in New York. Courtesy Amanita Girl with pitbull, bands of cash. The radiance of heaven. Being a teen. Gummy, chewy, delicious. Pink. Meme. Foucault and the way Foucault writes. Absurd extinction! Pagan root. Western civilization and liking it. Not like a boy likes …

Craig Boagey’s Nests of Internet References Thread the Line Between Desire and Horror Read More »

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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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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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, 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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