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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
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
“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
For the artist and native Californian Andrea Zittel, every aspect of her life is an opportunity for discovery and creation. The artist, who has lived in Joshua Tree’s desert landscape east of Los Angeles for more than 15 years, has fully integrated her art practice with her daily life, incorporating design as a way to […] More
