Artists

A Closer Look Inside the Camille Pissarro Exhibition at the Denver Art Museum

Camille Pissarro: Hoar-Frost, Peasant Girl Making a Fire (Gelée blanche, jeune paysanne faisant du feu), 1888. Courtesy akg-images, Laurent Lecat Nearly 100 artworks and related ephemera by Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro are expected to go on view as part of the exhibition “The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro’s Impressionism” at the Denver Art Museum (DAM) next …

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Gabriel Chaile’s Monumental Sculptures Keep Pre-Columbian History from Disappearing

Gabriel Chaile. Photo Alex Krotkov As the fall season kicked off in New York earlier this month, High Line Art curator Cecilia Alemani jokingly provided dealers at Marianne Boesky Gallery with a warning: They might never get the adobe dust from Gabriel Chaile’s sculptures out of the gallery’s nooks and crannies. Chaile, who was standing …

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Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Latest Exhibition Brings the Blast of Golan Heights Wind Turbines to Oslo

Installation view of “Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Zifzafa,” 2025, at Munch Museum, Oslo. Photo Ove Kvavik / Munchmuseet You hear Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s new exhibition before you see it. In Oslo’s gleaming Munch Museum, the faint sound of a saxophone drifts out into the 10th floor’s open promenade. The source of the music is found within …

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The Lita Albuquerque Performance Everyone at Untitled Art Houston Was Raving About

The Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern, Houston, Texas, 2024. Photo Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images While Untitled Art, Houston held its inaugural edition last week, the buzziest art piece wasn’t in the booths, but underground. In a performance that drew raves from attendees and art press alike, artist Lita Albuquerque led small groups into Houston’s …

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How Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa Became a Landmark of Romantic Art

Théodore Géricault, The Raft of the Medusa, 1818 Collection of the Louvre, Paris. The arrival of early 20th-century avant-gardism is generally considered the historical tsunami that swamped the conventions of Western art dating from the Renaissance. Yet this wave had begun building 100 years earlier with the rise of Romanticism, a sort of liberation movement …

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Painter Cynthia Hawkins Makes Her Own Rules Through Her Abstractions

Cynthia Hawkins in her studio in Poughkeepsie, New York, 2025. Photo Christopher Garcia Valle for ARTnews Throughout recent art history, grids have remained a constant. Prized by artists for their rigid orderliness, they have been painted, sculpted, and woven. Many critics have claimed that the grid is emotionless. Art historian Rosalind Krauss famously wrote that …

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Donald Moffett Takes Abstraction to Its Visceral Extreme, Addressing Climate Change and the Tense Political Moment

Donald Moffett, Aluminum/White House Unmoored (still), 2004. Photo Dan Bradica Studio/©2025 Donald Moffett/Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York; Anthony Meier, Mill Valley The title of Donald Moffett’s latest exhibition, “Snowflake,” is a deliberate provocation.“I don’t identify as a snowflake,” he told me, a week before the opening of the show, his first New York solo …

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German Artist Gabriele Stötzer Survived Prison, Censorship, and the Stasi

Gabriele Stötzer, ‘Lippen mit Draht’, 1983. © Gabriele Stötzer, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025, Courtesy LOOCK Galerie, Berlin On the banks of a glacial river high in the Swiss Alps, in a subterranean stone room among the remnants of a 12th-century Benedictine monastery, one can find the photographs of Gabriele Stötzer.The images are small and rudimentary, …

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The Enduring Mystery of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring

Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring, c. 1665 Mauritshuis Collection, The Hague, Netherlands. Digital image: Wikimedia Commons. Everybody loves a good mystery. That may explain why, for generations, art lovers have sought to learn the identity of the unknown subject in Johannes Vermeer’s masterpiece, Girl with a Pearl Earring (1665–67). Her ineffable pose (looking …

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