Precious Okoyomon with their installation Everything wants to kill you and you should be afraid (2026), now on view in the Whitney Biennial. Photo Christopher Garcia Valle for ARTnews Earlier this month, the Whitney Biennial went on view to the usual amount of fanfare—but one work was notably missing from the show. That work, a …
Raphael, The Virgin and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist in a Landscape (Alba Madonna) (c. 1509–11) Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The Italian Renaissance artist Raphael may have been called the “prince of painters,” but his masterful drawings were his calling card, even from a young age. We …
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Simone Leigh, Brick House, 2019 Artwork copyright © Simone Leigh, courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery. Photo by Timothy Schenck. Last March, we presented 15 iconic works of feminist art stretching from the first wave of feminism to the intersectional movement of today. But that roster could only scratch the surface of a potent artistic point of view. Here we add …
Installation view of Whitney Biennial 2026, from back to front: Pat Oleszko, “Blowhard,” 1995; Isabelle Frances McGuire, “Satan in America and Other Invisible Evils: Experiments in Public Sculpture (Witches 1–3),” 2026. Jason Lowrie/BFA.com As I stood in the Whitney Museum’s sixth-floor gallery for the opening of this year’s Biennial, I found the eye of a …
Belarus Free Theatre artists Sergey Grinevich, Daniella Kaliada, Natalia Kaliada, and Olga Podgayskaya. Photo Francesco Barasciutti The Belarus Free Theatre, an underground theater group in exile since 2020, announced Wednesday that it will stage the exhibition “Official. Unofficial. Belarus.” as an official collateral event of the 61st Venice Biennale. The show, to be staged at …
A screenshot from Leo Castañeda’s Camoflux Recall Grotto. Courtesy the artist and Whitney Museum While the Whitney Biennial isn’t set to open its 2026 edition to the public until Sunday, anyone can get a sneak peek at one work in the show: Camoflux Recall Grotto. The work, a video game by Colombian artist Leo Castañeda, …
Courtesy CIFRA Editor’s Note: This article was produced in partnership with CIFRA. As the art world continues to grapple with how best to exhibit, preserve, and monetize digital work, a new streaming platform aims to do more than simply replicate the white cube online. CIFRA positions itself as a platform made for artists working in …
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Portrait of Takashi Murakami at the exhibition “Hark Back to Ukiyo-e: Tracing Superflat to Japonisme’s Genesis” at Perrotin Los Angeles, 2026. Photo Guillaume Ziccarelli; ©︎Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved; Courtesy Perrotin. Takashi Murakami closes his eyes when he speaks. Still, this makes him no less animated: his hands gesture wildly, the pitch …
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Yuko Mohri’s fragile installations composed of secondhand goods have made her into a star. Photo Christopher Garcia Valle/ARTnews On the first preview day of the 2024 Venice Biennale, a torrential downpour sent artists, curators, journalists, and dealers scurrying for shelter. While others fretted about how the art on view would weather the sheets of rain, …
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Rana Begum with her work No. 1272 Chainlink (2023). Aric Attas, courtesy the Gallery at Windsor Growing up in Bangladesh and Hertfordshire, England, Rana Begum didn’t know that being an artist was a possible future for her. Her father worked various jobs to support the family, and brought them to the UK looking for a …
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