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Portraits of the artists from left to right bottom: 1) Candida Alvarez, photo Sarah Ayers; 2) American Artist, photo S*an D. Henry-Smith; 3) Ja’Tovia Gary, photo JerSean Gollatt; 4) Jorge González Santos, photo José Castrellón; 5) Every Ocean Hughes, photo Märtha Thisner; 6) Autumn Knight, photo courtesy the artist; 7) Young Joon Kwak, photo Joe …

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Bill Viola. Photo James Keyser/Getty Images From the white void, a black speck emerges. No more than a few pixels wide at first, this blob drifts closer and closer to us. As it slowly nears, the blob becomes a being whose legs and arms can be seen swaying in the wind, whose blustery din acts …

Bill Viola Changed Art Forever by Using Video to Confront the Limits of Vision Read More »

Konstantin Akinsha in Venice. COURTESY MATTEO DE MAYDA While a vast survey of Ukrainian modernism in London appeared to open at the end of June without a hitch, the show’s journey to the UK was not an easy ride. Konstantin Akinsha, the curator of the Royal Academy of Arts’s “In the Eye of the Storm: …

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Musée d’Orsay, Paris Sandrine Marty/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images. In 1900 the Exposition Universelle drew thousands of art lovers to Paris, many of them arriving by train at the new Gare d’Orsay. Who among them would have thought that the train station where they disembarked would become an illustrious institution holding the greatest collection of …

25 Masterpieces at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris Read More »

“The Kiss,” Brancusi. Courtesy Artizon Museum Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in Breakfast With ARTnews, our daily newsletter about the art world. Sign up here to receive it every weekday. The flight to Japan from art world centers like New York, London, and Paris isn’t exactly short. Those that do make the trip this year, however, won’t be disappointed …

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Grownups and children play in Joel Mesler’s pool party-themed installation at 30 Rockefeller Park Plaza. Courtesy Valerie Cassady On a recent afternoon, a couple was walking through the latest show by Joel Mesler, at Lévy Gorvy Dayan gallery’s Beaux-Arts townhouse on New York’s Upper East Side, when Mesler himself stopped them and asked a jarring …

Artist Joel Mesler Takes Over New York with Midtown Pool Party and an Upper East Side Gallery Show Read More »