Bony Ramirez. Courtesy the artist and Newark Museum of Art “I thought about how orchids in general are [like] these beautiful parasites that attach themselves to trees and don’t exactly bring anything positive to them,” artist Bony Ramirez told ARTnews during a recent interview. “They’re just occupying space, which can be closely related to Spanish …
Magdalena Suarez Frimkess Photo copyright © Museum Associates/LACMA. There are many ways to tell the story of Magdalena Suarez Frimkess. There is the narrative about the charming nonagenarian finally getting her due: At the age of 95, the artist, who was born in Venezuela and lives in Los Angeles, is currently having her first museum …
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The Brooklyn Museum’s Elizabeth Catlett show. Alex Greenberger/ARTnews Artists’ grant applications tend to be anodyne things because the point of them is often to appeal to an organization’s sensibilities, not to take a stand. But take a stand is what Elizabeth Catlett did in 1945 when she wrote of the “double handicap of race and …
An installation view of several works in the “We Live in Painting” exhibition at LACMA. On the right and hanging in the center are several works by Porfirio Gutiérrez. Photo © Museum Associates/LACMA On first glance, one might be forgiven for wondering how the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new exhibition, “We Live in …
Rheim Alkadhi’s ICA London show. Photo Rob Harris, ICA If you enter the lower galleries of London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts right now, you’ll encounter a postcard-like image described by the museum as “an intervention.” The image’s front side shows “this beautiful portrait of probably a queer person,” the other side, “a very direct statement …
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Visitors at the “Lumen: Helen Pashgian” installation at the Getty Center. Cassia Davis/ © 2024 J. Paul Getty Trust It wasn’t until I walked through the faded-blue door to Helen Pashgian’s Pasadena studio and she told me to put away my recorder and notebook that I understood this would not be a conventional interview. “People …
Ryan Preciado at work in his woodshop studio in South Los Angeles. Photo Joyce Kim for ARTnews A few years ago, Ryan Preciado began frequenting a hardware store less than a mile from his main studio in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Arlington Heights. Slowly, he began befriending the family who runs the shop. When …
Regina José Galindo, Tierra, 2013. Museum of Modern Art, New York In 2013, Regina José Galindo attended the trial of José Efraín Ríos Montt and Jose Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez, who spearheaded the Guatemalan coup d’état in 1982 and then led the country until 1983. Ríos Montt and Rodriguez Sanchez spoke of how the army dug …
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Daniela Hritcu for ARTnews Suzanne Kite, who simply goes by Kite, is an Oglála Lakȟóta artist, composer, and researcher, and one of the few Indigenous artists currently working with AI and machine learning, which she has been using since 2018. She holds an MFA from Bard College, where she also heads up an Indigenous AI …
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Artworks by Mo Kong. Works by Tianyi Sun-Fiel Guhit and Mo Kong; Illustration by Daniela Hritcu for ARTnews To speak in the same breath of artificial intelligence and Asians, who have long been coded in popular culture as task-driven robots and emotionless cyborgs, risks belaboring the stereotype or, at best, rehashing well-worn critiques of techno-orientalism. …
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