From Instagram discoveries to the one that got away (elephant teapots!), the Richmond-based couple share how they built their enviable collection.

This week in Newly Reviewed, it’s Walker Mimms on Andrew Wyeth, Zoë Hopkins on Truong Cong Tung and Arthur Lubow on Kyle Dunn.

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford // June 07, 2024 - September 01, 2024

At the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, the artist’s cinematic tableaux announce his arrival on the mainstage of queer figurative painting.

The Brooklyn-based artist's works are now on view in "Matrix 194" at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Connecticut.

What to show, and how to show it, is being recontextualized by a new generation of creatives

Elephant’s Art Features Editor, Emily Burke, starts her visit at Frieze London

Depicting a series of distinctly after-hours scenarios, every painting in Kyle Dunn’s ‘Night Pictures’ is a testament to the power of sleeplessness to transform the banal into a melodrama and the self into a well of introspection. 

Ten paintings. Each engaging; each mysterious; each stranger than the next.

In his newest exhibition showing at the PPOW Gallery, Brooklyn based artist Kyle Dunn captures moments of quiet and sublime intimacy between men.

Kyle Dunn’s Night Pictures offers quiet, intimate scenes that hum with depth.

Kyle Dunn’s new exhibition, Night Pictures, studies a single queer protagonist in their most personal and contemplative moments.

The theme of nocturnal interiors in Kyle Dunn’s solo show “Night Pictures” at PPOW highlights his fascinating handling of light and shadow.

A bi-monthly collection of mixed reviews.

“Trending Now” is a monthly series focused on the artists with a significant growth in followers on Artsy from one month to the next.

When we first sat down with Kyle Dunn in NYC back in 2018, he told us, "Times are changing rapidly, and queer imagery seems to finally be leaving the margins of visual culture." 

From Carolee Schneeman at P·P·O·W to Tyler Mitchell at the Gagosian, we share the most unmissable highlights from this year’s fair. New York-based gallery PPOW are offering a rich variety of work made over the last 70 years spanning painting, clay sculpture and tapestry. 

In amassing work made by the mostly overlooked gay artists who lived and died during the crisis, a global group of collectors is redefining what the Western canon looks like.

In conjunction with Kyle Dunn's Into Open Air and Gina Beavers' World War Me, P·P·O·W and Marianne Boesky Gallery presented a digital conversation between Dunn and Beavers moderated by Osman Can Yerebakan.

In the face of economic unknowns, the message from the city’s galleries is: we’re not taking this lying down. Roberta Smith on 16 of the neighborhood’s most riveting painting shows.

How artists, galleries, and art fairs are weathering the storm of the global pandemic.

Art has the unique ability to be therapeutic. The act of creation, problem solving and general solitary thinking allows artists to work through some of the biggest questions about identity, sexuality and ultimately themselves. Manifestation of these deeply personal thoughts and ideas can be incredibly cathartic and expressive. With these tools, artists can tap into p​​arts of themselves that are usually out of reach for others.