The Artist’s Inaugural Exhibition in DC is a Timely Act of Resistance
As an exhibit, Confluences showcases Box's willingness to evolve her approach to image-making over two decades to meet the challenges of conveying complexity.
Meet the Prolific Pandolfo Twins Through Nearly 1000 of their Artworks Under One Roof
OSGEMEOS’s work is largely inventive and whimsical, like stepping into a dream or a comforting alternate universe
Fairs Find Success with New takes on "Safe" Media Even as Institutions and Collections Celebrate Weirder Acquisitions
Soft Focus, Blurry Paintings Satisfy, Especially at Price Points Reflective of Younger and Emerging Artists
Pro Tips: From Art Basel Booths to Local Galleries and, of Course, Parties
We’re happy to share our picks for what’s worthwhile (and hacks for making it all a little more manageable) as the adult children of Miami Beach residents. We’ve already been in town for a week, checking out the local galleries and museum shows while plotting our fair itineraries.
What To See During The Most Important Week for Art in New York
Armory Week in New York is overwhelming. We asked Chelsea insider Dylan Farley to share her "must-see" picks, including a group show of Baltimore artists curated by Derrick Adams.
The new Irene and Richard Frary Gallery to open in October at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center at 555 Pennsylvania Ave.
Berry will curate and promote the new art gallery’s rotating series of exhibitions exploring the intersection of arts and democracy that will be free and open to the public.
A Design-Based Campaign Makes Brazil’s Current Environmental Crisis Visible and Poignant
Água até Aqui @aguaateaqui (High Water Mark) is an initiative that aims to be a visual alert for the extreme consequences of the climate crisis currently in south Brazil but applicable everywhere.
The Titans of São Paulo's Modern and Contemporary Art Canon Command a Hometown Market Parallel to their Venetian Exposure
Thaís Franco, Collections Management Director of KURA Arte, reports from São Paulo's largest art fair, offering local insight on the Brazilian artists making waves in Venice.
A Book for Art Nerds and Aficionados, as well as the Culturally Curious
Get the Picture: Bianca Bosker’s Journey Among Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Her How to See (February 2024 Viking)
National Pavilions Question their own Identities in a Globalized World
At the national pavilions there’s an appropriately diverse set of strategies for addressing the legacies of colonialism and immigration from both traumatic or optimistic perspectives.
Curator Adriano Pedrosa Celebrates Acts of Resistance, Independence, Vulnerability, and Joy in Spite of a Sick, Sad World
The 60th Venice Biennale takes on themes of displacement, environmental injustice, racism, colonialism, but also manages to avoid easy cliches by treating artists from marginalized backgrounds as individuals with agency.
Confusing Institutional Acquisitions, Big Paintings of Butts, and Heaps (Literally) of Ceramics
A Roundup of Madrid Art Fairs, including ARCO and its numerous satellite fairs, which close on Sunday, March 10
Highlights, Zeitgeists, and Weirdness (Including Shows You Can Still See)
There is no other “must-see” event on the ever-more-esoteric Aztec calendar of art world “can’t miss” events that fills me with as much eager anticipation and simultaneous existential dread. But the art here makes it all worth it.
Art Fairs, Openings, Performances, and Travel Advice from an Almost-Chilango
This year, I’m sharing my art week event picks—based on expertise gleaned spending the better part of the past decade always searching for some elusive superlative in the capital of extremes.
Picks, Trends, and Observations from Fairs, Galleries, and the Rubell Museum (Including a Theory as to why Everything is Suddenly Periwinkle)
Is this a good year for galleries? That depends on who you ask. At the main fair, booths with challenging or innovative artworks are about as common as faces with intact buccal fat—they're few and far between and take some effort to spot.
The New Museu de l’Art Prohibit in Barcelona is a Refuge for Censored Artworks
The Museu de l’Art Prohibit is, according to its founders, the first of its kind: a museum dedicated to the collection, preservation, and display of art that has been censored (in one way or another) elsewhere. Its contents are equal-opportunity offenders—having already outraged every religion.
In "Pope of Trash" Cinema's Enfant Terrible Gets Cannonically Crowned by the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Los Angeles
Actress (on strike) and writer (no longer on strike!) Liz Eldridge on why John Waters' mainstream acceptance restores her faith in filmmaking.
Highlights from the Fair, and Why We Should be Taking Notes
I so wish more art spaces from the Baltimore/DC region participated in smart, well-curated smaller fairs like this—putting local artists in dialogue with international peers and in front of international audiences and kingmakers.
