Artists

ARTnews Awards 2024 Emerging Artist of the Year: Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio

Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio for “MOCA Focus: Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio” at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles November 12, 2023–June 16, 2024 To relaunch its “MOCA Focus” exhibition series, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles chose LA-based artist Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio to take over a portion of its sprawling Geffen Contemporary location. Marking Aparicio’s …

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Artist Violette Bule and Art Historian Michel Otayek Talk About Their Recent Exhibition and the Political Crisis in Venezuela

Installation view of “Una Luz: Photography Under Confinement in Venezuela” at the Visual Arts Center, 2024. Photo: Alex Boeschenstein Between 2010 and 2012, artist Violette Bule held a series of free photography workshops in penitentiaries in her home country of Venezuela. Over 3,000 images were created by the workshops’ incarcerated participants. That archive remained out of public …

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A Groundbreaking Show on the African Diaspora Raises Pressing Questions About Portugal’s Colonialist Past

Installation view of “Black Ancient Futures,” 2024, at the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon. Photo Bruno Lopes In 2008, Danish Trinidadian artist Jeannette Ehlers traveled to Ghana, where she visited Fort Prinzenstein, which was built by Danish traders in 1784 and used in the transatlantic slave trade. Located in Keta, in the West …

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Have You Seen This Missing Artwork?

Getty Images Nothing haunts art researchers like the paintings, sculptures, and prints that they can’t track down—whether for a catalogue raisonné, an artist’s archive, or a scholarly article. This is felt even more acutely by those with a sentimental connection to an artwork that has disappeared into a private collection or changed hands without leaving …

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Jeffrey Gibson Opens a Portal in Two-Spirit Tribute at MASS MoCA

View of Jeffrey Gibson’s “WE’RE POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT” at MASS MoCA. Greg Nesbit There was a lot of talk about portals earlier this month at MASS MoCA, the enormous art space in Western Massachusetts now playing home to an eye-popping, shape-shifting installation by artist Jeffrey Gibson through the winter of next year. Gibson …

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Joseph Beuys’s Game-Changing Art Plants Seeds for Change in Two Vast LA Projects

Installation view of “Joseph Beuys: In Defense of Nature,” 2024, at the Broad, Los Angeles. Photo Joshua White/JWPictures.com/Courtesy The Broad “If you have all my multiples,” Joseph Beuys once said, “then you have me completely.” The polymathic German sculptor was referring to the editioned objects that bore the intellectual and emotional freight of his artistic …

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At MASS MoCA, Osman Khan Marries ‘One Thousand and One Nights’ with an AI-Generated Storyteller and Flying Carpet Drones

Installation view of “Osman Khan: Road to Hybridabad,” 2024–25, at MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, featuring Mohammed’s flying horse, Buraq, as a coin-operated kiddie ride. Photo Jon Verney/Courtesy the artist, made with MASS MoCA Drone-operated flying carpets held captive inside a Taj Mahal–shaped cage; a mammoth head of the British colonialist Sir Cyril Radcliffe moonlighting …

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A Sonia Boyce–Lygia Clark Double Feature at Whitechapel Offers an Exhilarating Proposition 

Installation view of “Sonia Boyce: An Awkward Relation,” 2024–25, at Whitechapel Gallery, London, showing Black Female Hairstyles (1995) on the wall and Exquisite Tension (2007) on the video screen. Photo Above Ground Studio For its fall programming, London’s Whitechapel Gallery decided to present an intriguing pairing of exhibitions of two artists who at first may …

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