Subterms
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
“Derrick Adams: Transformers” at Luxembourg & Dayan, LondonThrough April 4, 2020 What the Gallery Says: “The exhibition presents striking new large-scale examples from the ‘Beauty World’ series that Adams began in 2019. ‘Beauty World’includes works titled , which depict a single figure, and , which depict 16 figures. To create these ambitious works, Adams reproduces a digital photograph […] More
The millennial art star Jordan Casteel is having her first New York solo museum show at the tender age of 31. Opening this week at the New Museum, the show will include some 40 paintings, many from her series “Harlem Nights,” which depict African American men in the same Harlem community where Casteel lives. “There are […] More
K-Pop is on a mission to take over the world. And on this mission, the latest ally is contemporary art, with South Korean boyband BTS sprearheading a wildly ambitious global public art initiative that aims to excite its millions of fans and bring in new ones. In January, the band initiated the project, known as CONNECT, BTS. The […] More
This March, thousands of tourists milling through the neon-lit chaos that is Times Square will encounter something a little in between the frenetic advertisements and fast-fashion stores. At first glance, what they find might look like a full-size, fully-stocked grocery store. In and of itself, this isn’t unusual for a city of around 8.6 million […] More
Visitors in Los Angeles for Frieze Week will have a busy agenda with the many art fairs and gallery and museum exhibitions. To help you keep it all straight, here’s a guide to some of the highlights that are on view at institutions across the city, from Paul McCarthy’s first US museum survey to the […] More
If you missed your chance to snap up one of the coveted tickets to the Louvre’s Leonardo da Vinci exhibition, now is the time to start caffeinating. The Paris museum will be open all night long for the final three days of the exhibition. Bookings open tomorrow, February 11 to secure a slot during the […] More
“Portraying Pregnancy: From Holbein to Social Media” at the Foundling Museum, LondonThrough April 26, 2020 What the Museum Says: “Until the 20th century, many women spent most of their adult years pregnant. Despite this, pregnancies are seldom apparent in surviving portraits. This exhibition brings together images of women—mainly British—who were depicted at a time when […] More
