Artists

Portrait ofCelia Paul, 2025. © Gautier Deblonde. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro The British artist Celia Paul, known for her moody figurative paintings that often draw from her life, has had numerous solo exhibitions at galleries and museums over the past decade—none of them in New York, save for a 2015 show at Gallery …

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The Louvre Museum is closed for the day after a robbery in Paris, France, on October 19, 2025. NurPhoto via Getty Images On Sunday, a group of at least three masked professional thieves smashed into the first-floor gallery of the Louvre in Paris, stealing a series of priceless jewels, including pieces once belonging to Emperor …

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A general view of Tate Modern on May 11, 2025 in London, England. Getty Images For those already exhausted at the prospect of Frieze London, the city offers more than the big, circus-like tent in Regent’s Park. This year’s offerings are both broad and cohesive: landmark shows foregrounding Black artistic expression and postcolonial histories sit …

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Kerry James Marshall. Getty Images for MOCA Superlatives have been lavished upon Kerry James Marshall, and understandably so. His acclaimed paintings of the past four and a half decades have challenged the systemic exclusion of Black figures across art history while also protesting racism in the present—no small task, and not an easy one. Perhaps …

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Jackson Pollock in his studio in 1953 Tony Vaccaro/Getty Images Olney Gleason, headed by alums of the former Kasmin gallery, will exclusively represent the work of pioneering Abstract Expressionist painters Jackson Pollock and his wife, Lee Krasner through the the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. The gallery, which opened earlier this year, was founded by Nick Olney and …

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Gerhard Richter, Self-Portrait, Three Times, 1/24/90, 1990 Arwork copyright © Gerhard Richter 2025 (01102025). Digital image © copyright Tate, London/Art Resource, New York. In 2017, Gerhard Richter announced that he’d completed the last of his paintings, prompting some to say that he was retiring altogether. This wasn’t the case; he continued to produce drawings, other …

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Seydou Keïta Now celebrated as the father of African photography, Seydou Keïta (ca. 1921–2001) operated a busy studio in Bamako, Mali (until 1960, French Sudan), between 1948 and 1963, a time of radical transformation—from rural to urban and from colonial to postcolonial—both in that country and across Africa. The thousands of people Keïta photographed during …

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Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii, 1784. Photo Michel Urtado/©GrandPalaisRmn (Musée du Louvre) The bicentenary of Jacques-Louis David, who passed away on December 28, 1825, is just around the corner. To mark the occasion, the Louvre presents an exhibition of 100 works by the celebrated French artist. “This anniversary was certainly an opportunity,” the …

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Artist Gabrielle Bejani in her studio. Courtesy Gabrielle Bejani On November 27, 2024, when Israel and Lebanon reached a ceasefire after months of armed violence across southern Lebanon, Gabrielle Bejani may have been hopeful, if briefly. But within hours of the announcement, the ceasefire was broken: Israeli soldiers opened fire in the town of Khiam, …

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Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #21, 1978 Artwork copyright © Cindy Sherman. Digital images courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth. In the United States, the 1970s were known as the malaise decade, nowhere more so than in New York City, where the white middle class had fled the Five Boroughs along with manufacturing …

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