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I recognized Shirin Neshat by her black kohl eyeliner, which frames her kind eyes like war paint. We met at Goodman Gallery in London, where the veteran artist is presenting a new body of work in her first solo exhibition in the city in two decades. The two films and the series of photographic portraits […] 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
“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
