It’s not easy for a young artist to make a name for herself. But it can be even more of a struggle for non-Western artists, like emerging Palestinian talent Dina Mimi, who lives and works in Jerusalem. It may be similarly challenging for Tunisian DJ and producer Deena Abdelwahed, a woman immersed in the male-dominated electronic […] More
Over the weekend, the nation got a new contemporary art museum: The Momentary in Bentonville, Arkansas. Situated in a repurposed Kraft cheese factory, the new space is the latest outpost of the nearby Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. The Momentary’s industrial-strength embrace of emerging art is intended to augment that nine-year-old institution’s focus on art-historical […] More
Gladys Nilsson was beaming. On a recent afternoon the artist—a member of the Chicago group the Hairy Who, a once-fringe movement that’s increasingly beloved—was strolling through the galleries at Matthew Marks and Garth Greenan, admiring the precise curatorial choices in a much-anticipated fifty-year survey of her work. “It’s kind of thrilling really, to see them all […] More
Raphael created exquisite tapestries for the Sistine Chapel but unless you are in Rome this weekend, the chances of seeing them reunited where they original hung is practically nil. That is because a one-week exhibition of Raphael’s 12 surviving tapestries ends this Sunday, February 23. It is only the third time in the past 50 […] More
Jaimie Warren is the first to admit that she’s weird; it stems from a desire to do just about anything to keep herself entertained. For the Wisconsin-born artist, this means dressing up as bizarro versions of her favorite pop-culture characters and celebrities—from Freddie Mercury to Freddy Krueger, she’s done it all. Warren’s first solo institutional show […] More
Female artists’ contributions to the Surrealist movement may be well known, but only a handful have received the recognition they deserve. A scholarly new exhibition in Frankfurt has brought together works by 34 important artists, several of whom have been long overlooked and excluded from the male-dominated art historical canon. The quantity and diversity of […] More
Strolling through the streets of Paris, you might stumble upon these new pieces from Ludo. His unmistakable imagery tells you right away when you spot one of his artworks in the city of lights. With “Parisian Ketchup” and “Nature(Netflix)Morte”, the French street artist created satiric artworks based on two mega commercial brands. While most of […] More
