Artists

Afrofuturism: Reimagining the Past and Telling a Black Fantastic Future

Photo collage by Daniela Hritcu. There are Black people in the future.” In 2017, contemporary visual artist Alisha B. Wormsley began placing those words on billboards across the country in cities including Pittsburgh, Detroit, Charlotte, New York City, Kansas City, and Houston. According to Wormsley, the phrase started out as a “Black nerd sci-fi joke.” …

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A Rising Generation of Mexican Artists and Dealers Impress During Mexico City Art Week, But Can the Market Respond?

The entrance to the 11th edition of Feria Material in Mexico City on Thursday, February 6. Courtesy of Feria Material Shortly before I left for Mexico City last week, I asked a fellow journalist who has reported on the country’s art for years for any advice for a first-timer. “The young Mexican artists are the …

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Noah Davis: An Innovative Painter Who Also Reimagined Art’s Role in Community

Noah Davis at work, Los Angeles, 2009 Patrick O’Brien-Smith In Painting for My Dad (2011), artist Noah Davis presents a male figure gazing over a rocky landscape beneath a star-strewn, nearly black night sky. With the figure facing away from the viewer, dressed in a worn red shirt and denim trousers and holding a lantern …

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At the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a Blockbuster Exhibition Explores Different Approaches to Black Figuration

Lubaina Himid, Le Rodeur: Exchange, 2016. Photo Andy Keate/©Lubaina Himid/Courtesy the artist; Greene Naftali, New York; and Hollybush Gardens, London A range of interpretations and depictions of the Black figure is currently on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (through February 9). Organized by British writer and curator Ekow Eshun, “The Time Is Always …

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Photojournalist Charles “Teenie” Harris, and the Family Friend Working to Keep His Legacy Alive

Charles “Teenie” Harris, Woman using a Kodak Brownie 8mm movie camera, 1957 Copyright © Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. In a career spanning 40 years as a photojournalist for the Pittsburgh Courier, one of the nation’s leading Black newspapers, Charles “Teenie” Harris amassed an unrivaled photographic archive. The Smithsonian credits him with creating “one of …

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The ARTnews Guide to Cubism

Juan Gris, Still Life, 1917, oil on panel, 28 3/4 x 36 3/16 inches. Minneapolis Institute of Art. Most people have heard of Cubism and probably even have a fair idea of what a Cubist painting looks like. And they are certainly familiar with Cubism’s most famous figure, Pablo Picasso—an artist who, despite his misogyny, …

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The Louvre Presents a Mind-Blowing Exhibition about the ‘Figure of the Fool’

Jan Matejko, Stańczyk during a ball at the court of Queen Bona in the face of the loss of Smolensk, 1862. Photo Piotr Ligier/National Museum in Warsaw In one of its most ambitious recent exhibitions, the Louvre in Paris looks at how the depiction of the fool—and by extension the perception of madness—has evolved from …

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Newsmakers: American Artist on Seeing the Patterns of the Climate Crisis as LA Fires Rage

A still image from American Artist’s two-channel video work, “The Monophobic Response,” in which a group of scholars, artists, and engineers play “Earthseeders,” from Octavia Butler’s “The Parable of the Sower” and reenact a rocket test. Courtesy of American Artist and Pioneer Works Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, an ARTnews series where we interview the movers …

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