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 …
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 …
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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 …
“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 …
David Hockney asleep in the transit lounge at Dubai Airport, 1977. Courtesy of Lyndsay Ingram. The tale of the artiste maudit is often spun to inject mystery and intrigue into the lives of great painters, that image of a tortured soul working all hours for peanuts, fingers worn to paint-splattered bone, barely sustained on a …
Peruvian artist Violeta Quispe Courtesy of La Biennale de Venezia Deep within the cavernous Arsenale di Venezia, amidst hundreds of works on view at the 60th edition of the Biennale, two paintings by Peruvian artist Violeta Quispe offer an invitation into a queer, gender-breaking multiverse. The works — El Matrimonio de la Chola (2022) and …
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Bertille Bak. Courtesy the artist In Bertille Bak’s five-part video installation Mineur Mineur (2022), children from Bolivia, India, Indonesia, Madagascar, and Thailand pretend to get dressed to go for work in the mines. Then these kid performers act out their labor, getting dressed in mining gear before heading off to their jobs and waving their …
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Barcelona, Spain Jim Bennett/Getty Images. Barcelona, the crown jewel of the Catalonia region of Spain, is a city that weaves an enchanting tapestry of culture, art, history, and of course food. Nestled along a sun-kissed Mediterranean shore, this vibrant city mesmerizes visitors. I’m admittedly biased, Barcelona having been a favorite city of mine for years …
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