Iranian artist Sohrab Kashani lives in Tehran, but you can visit his apartment—which serves as a contemporary art venue as well as his home—in Pittsburgh, where is on view at the Mattress Factory. The project, a collaboration with artist Jon Rubin, features a scaled reproduction of Kashani’s home, and the artists will stage matching exhibitions […] More
A striking exhibition of 18 artists from the African continent looks at how appearances sometimes point to deeper truths. “Now Look Here: The African Art of Appearance,” on view at a pop-up space in Amsterdam through February 23, showcases works by Tabi Benny, Blinky Bill, and Omar Victor Diop alongside 15 other artists in a presentation organized by Renny […] More
For the first time, the American artist Paul McCarthy is having a survey dedicated entirely to his drawings and works on paper, opening this February at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. A provocateur who is best known for his performance and video art, McCarthy’s work is often grotesque and sarcastic, deriding American icons by […] More
This week we check in on Chicago’s prolific Don’t Fret. As usual DF has been busy creating, and this week he opens a solo show “O God, There’s Noises I’m Going To Be Hungry For” in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn. Fresh off the release of his killer new monograph ‘Life Thus Far’ DF has been working […] More
Tuesday, January 28–Sunday, March 8 Peter Saul, from the private collection of KAWS & Julia Chiang. 1. “Collectouples: Works from the Private Collections of Julia Chiang & KAWS, Rachel Feinstein & John Currin, April Gornik & Eric Fischl, and Mickalene Thomas & Racquel Chevremont” at the New York Academy of Art What’s better than one […] More
When two Russian soldiers arrived to the Auschwitz concentration camp on January 27, 1945, the guards were gone but 7,000 survivors remained, including many children. Now, one of those children, Marta Wise, is among 75 subjects in a poignant new photography exhibition that captures the portraits of Holocaust survivors. The show, “Survivors – Faces of […] More
A portrait of the French playwright and legendary bohemian Alfred Jarry, with his long dark hair and manicured goatee that evokes , appears alongside family photos in Linda Klieger Stillman’s home in Potomac, Maryland. In fact, art and memorabilia related to the proto-Dadaist and inventor of “pataphysics” is scattered all over the house, though some […] More
