Artists

In a Florida Exhibition, Sandy Rodriguez Examines the Hidden Histories of the Gulf of Mexico

Sandy Rodriguez, Resistance Map of Gulf of Mexico (detail), 2025. ©Sandy Rodriguez/Courtesy The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art/Collection of the artist In the paintings on paper of Los Angeles–based artist and researcher Sandy Rodriguez, each color has a defined function. “Each pigment carries symbolic power,” she recently told ARTnews. “Maya Blue connects us …

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Why Is Salvador Dalí’s Persistence of Memory So Important?

Salvador Dalí, The Persistence of Memory, 1931 Digital image copyright © The Museum of Modern Art, licensed by Scala/Art Resource, New York. Artwork copyright © 2025 Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. The Persistence of Memory (La persistencia de la memoria) (1931) is a trifecta of superlatives: Surrealism’s most famous …

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Cara Romero’s Indigenous Futurist Lens Resists Erasure Through Humor and Strength

Cara Romero. ©Cara Romero/Courtesy the artist The photographs of Cara Romero operate on the precipice between the risk of death and possibility of self-dissolution. A woman buried in sand stares resolutely at the viewer, or a figure floats in a body of water below an oil field. Her lens fuses Indigenous ancestral memory with the …

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Guerrilla Girls: Fighting Discrimination, One Poster at a Time

Guerrilla Girls Kathe Kollwitz, Zubeida Agha, and Frida Kahlo during a press preview for the exhibition “Guerrilla Girls: Not Ready To Make Nice, 30 Years and Still Counting,” at the Abrons Art Center, New York, April 30, 2015 Copyright © Guerilla Girls, courtesy guerrillagirls.com. Photo: Andrew Hinderaker. As revolutionaries often do, the feminist collective known …

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Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova on Reclaiming Her Prison Time Through Art

Nadya Tolokonnikova: Police State, 2025, performance, at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Photo Yulia Shur. Courtesy LA MOCA. Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, a new ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world. More than a decade after Pussy Riot cofounder Nadya Tolokonnikova was imprisoned in Russia for …

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