Madrid, Spain UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images With 3.4 million inhabitants, Madrid is the second-largest city in the European Union, and with about 45 museums, it is one of Europe’s most robust cultural centers. Landmarks in Spain’s capital city include Plaza Mayor, the Royal Plalace, the National Library, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, the Reina Sofía …
Leila Babirye. Photo Jonty Wilde/Courtesy the artist, Stephen Friedman Gallery, and Yorkshire Sculpture Park Like her imposing sculptures, Leilah Babirye is still standing. And even better, she is thriving. In 2015, Babirye fled Uganda after she was outed by a local publication as an activist and a member of the queer community. In her home …
Curator Avi Lubin (R) looks through works at Dov Heller’s estate in Nirim, a kibbutz just a few miles from the Gaza border. Courtesy of the MIshkan Museum In his 1968 print Remaining Words, Israeli artist Dov Heller wrote in blocky Hebrew letters: “I finished reserve duty on Friday/I was in Gaza they threw rocks …
Ben Vautier, 2023. Photo Clement Mahoudeau/AFP via Getty Images Ben Vautier, a French Fluxus artist whose humorous paintings and performances imploded the division between life and art, earning laughs and admiration alike from critics, has died at 88. Vautier, who often worked under the artistic moniker Ben, was found dead in his home in Nice …
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Big Chief Demond Melancon in the 2019 documentary All on a Mardi Gras Day. Courtesy the artist Before he considered himself an artist, Demond Melancon boiled lobster at the Louisiana chain restaurant Drago’s Seafood, washed dishes at Emeril’s, and poured concrete for Hard Rock Construction. He laid and smoothed the cement walkway in front of …
The founding French Surrealists loved the subconscious. They also loved women—as muses, as subjects of erotic desire, as sources of inspiration, but not necessarily as artists at first. Women weren’t present at the birth of the movement when poet André Breton published his Surrealist Manifesto in 1924. But inevitably women were attracted to the movement …
El Anatsui holding a record from his collection. Moz Photography/Courtesy Efie Gallery El Anatsui may be known best for his metallic tapestries made from bottle caps, but he is also a musician. In his university days, he played trumpet, performing music by Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington in a school band led by an American …
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The new exhibition features 47 works by KAWS and Andy Warhol. Photo by Bryan Conley There are no shortage of exhibitions dealing with KAWS and Andy Warhol individually, but there haven’t been many that contend with the two artists together. This unusual focus forms the subject of a new exhibition that recently opened at the …
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Ophelia Arc: i love beginnings!, 2023, latex, thread, Arcoroc Canterbury Dinner Plate impression, silicone, 100 pieces of human hair, rusted razor blade, scan of journal spread (6/24/15), photo (5/14/13), photo (6/29/15), scan of letter (7/1/15), scan of note (2015), ripped out page of Francisco Goya’s Saturn Devouring His Son, 32 by 40 inches. Courtesy 81 …
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The screening of “Aggro Dr1ft” at Elsewhere in Brooklyn, New York. Photos by Mike Vitelli. Courtesy of EDGLRD. Context is everything, and filmmaker Harmony Korine is certainly building a lot of it around Aggro Dr1ft, the film he first premiered last fall at the Venice Film Festival. Since then, Korine took the film on tour, …
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