While New York readies itself to decamp to *insert warm locale, family home, or downtown dining destination* a slower, but steady schedule of shows has arrived, with most stretching into the new year.
While New York readies itself to decamp to *insert warm locale, family home, or downtown dining destination* a slower, but steady schedule of shows has arrived, with most stretching into the new year.
In conjunction with the exhibition Hunter Reynolds / Dean Sameshima: Promiscuous Rage, we are pleased to host a daylong activation of Hunter Reynolds’s Dialogue Table 3, My First Year Out, 1992.
In a series of sculptures, Guadalupe Maravilla (previously) draws on his home country as he sculpts backpacks and enlarged hands from volcanic rock.
Co-Chief Art Critics Johanna Fateman and John Vincler share the books that sustained them this year.
"Above Ground" contains key graffiti works from painter Martin Wong's collection, some never before seen.
This was a year whose high points included Joan Jonas’s luminous survey, the extravaganza “PST ART,” and the 24-karat beauty of a show “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350.”
This was a year whose high points included Joan Jonas’s luminous survey, the extravaganza “PST ART,” and the 24-karat beauty of a show “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350.”
From debut participants to thought-provoking installations by established names, we present the buzziest booths at Art Basel Miami Beach 2024.
Joe Sheftel has a vision. But it doesn't override his clients' tastes. We take a tour through the labyrinthine aisles of Art Basel Miami Beach on opening day.
An ambitious show at Tate Modern looks at how artists used technology from the postwar tech boom until the dawn of the internet age.
“We’ll always be together, together in electric dreams,” promises the soaring chorus of the infectious 1984 synth-pop banger by Giorgio Moroder and Phil Oakey.
It’s no secret that Miami Beach is queer as folk. Aside from legendary gay bar Twist, Gianni Versace’s mansion and the year-round display of speedo-clad himbos, this month the city is home to many new queer art exhibitions.
Rounding up the best gallery exhibitions across the United States each month, Galerie traveled from New York to Los Angeles to discover the top solo shows for December.
What a year. What a year? Art Basel Miami Beach is the closer of each year for the art world, and there is a ton of stuff see across the convention center.
Machine-inspired art can seem like a relatively recent phenomena, spurred on by the rise of artificial intelligence, yet a new exhibition reveals how it has been transforming the creative world for far longer.
Just one month after Donald Trump’s re-election as US president, the 22nd edition of Art Basel Miami Beach could prove a microcosm of a politically divided country.
Portia Munson delves deeply into the connection between the objects we collect and the stories they tell about us.
In a series of email conversations with art historian Moira Roth, Dinh Q. Lê (1968–2024) recalled a form of ritual he would perform on each of his trips back to Vietnam.
Portia Munson has created elaborate sculptures and installations for more than three decades that explore the thinly veiled messages and codes embedded in mass-produced objects.
This expansive genre includes any title with a bearing on the multifaceted art world — from Audrey Flack’s memoir to Caitlin Cass’s Suffrage Song.
From her studio in Dorset, Clementine Keith-Roach sculpts expressive, bodily forms that appear as if plucked from an ancient cavern or soot-filled cellar.
In Everything For You, the first comprehensive monograph on the work of Hilary Harkness, readers are invited into the intricate and often provocative world the artist has painstakingly built through her meticulously crafted paintings.
Artist Ishi Glinsky joins Rail Editor-at-Large Andrew Woolbright for a conversation.
Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to this month, from a radical archive of LGBTQ+ experience in Brazil to the Bangkok Art Biennale
“Artists on Our Radar” is a monthly series focused on five artists who have our attention.
A hand-curated list of wonderful ways to spend your November, from a seafood pop-up on a Paddington canal to exhibitions from Nan Goldin, Tim Burton, Martine Syms and more
A highlight of the Meridians sector, the monumental installation portrays female ideals and critiques societal expectations
P·P·O·W is pleased to announce the representation of Harry Gould Harvey IV.
An installation by the Puerto Rican, who is based in Philadelphia, exposes the experiences of five patients within the healthcare system. The project addresses the importance of alternative ways to cope with illness
Some collectors treat artworks like poker chips and flip work by young artists. That’s not Brian Donnelly. Now his finds star in a show.
Berry Tompkins's "Just a Pretty Face" took a fresh approach to curating the output of an artist whose career spans decades.
The volume of problematic artifacts Locke uncovered in the British Museum’s archives illustrates the fundamental importance of objective historical research.
New York Oomph is a curated roundup of the best contemporary art exhibitions and events held by galleries, museums, and institutions in town during ADAA: The Art Show, New York, October 2024.
Clementine Keith-Roach explores motherhood and collective identity through modern ruins that blend personal and historical forms into fragile yet resilient vessels.
Please join us for a celebration of the life and work of Dinh Q. Lê.
Stories of healing and repair transform the gallery in a new exhibition which opens on Saturday.
Building a pipeline from Fall River to an art world many find exclusionary and far off is personal for the married couple behind Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art.
The Brooklyn-based artist's horror-tinged paintings are on view at P·P·O·W in Tribeca.
In "what have we here?," the Guyanese-British artist turns his probing eye toward the museum's own collection and the story it tells.
In "what have we here?," the Guyanese-British artist turns his probing eye toward the museum's own collection and the story it tells.
The neighborhood's gallery cluster now rivals that of Chelsea, and Travis told Observer it all began with a series of emails.
The artist’s pairing of unfamiliar African, Asian and South American objects with his own sculptures reveals dark and complex stories.
Aside from the old-time favourites, this year’s Parisian outing is filled to the rafters with outspoken artists you’ll find on Mrs. Prada and Jonathan Anderson’s hit list. Here’s who to watch out for.
Below, here some of the best booths at the 2024 edition of Art Basel Paris, which runs through Sunday.
Reporting live from Art Basel at the Grand Palais, our editors Tschabalala Self and Emily Burke have compiled their top five booths from the fair.
The Grand Palais’ majestic, light-filled architecture heightened the overall excitement, and sales were strong in the early hours of the fair's VIP day.
The organizers of Art Basel Paris 2024 could not have dreamed of better weather as the fair unveiled its first edition at the Grand Palais yesterday in a balmy, almost summery climate.
There was an air of renewed optimism and reinvigoration at the opening VIP day as Paris Art Basel settles into its new Grand Palais base.
This exhibition at the British Museum doesn’t so much prick the conscience as pummel it — we see the British Empire at its worst, but there’s no case for the defense.
No object is just an object: everything is a symbol. And in Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke’s excellent exhibition of items from the British Museum’s endless archives and stores, every object is a symbol of power, dominance and exploitation.
While Locke is unflinchingly curious about objects from the collection that evidence Britain’s colonial and imperial past, his personable and reflective commentary make this a maverick and often moving take on questions that have recently become all too polarised and entrenched.
Let’s be clear: “alternative facts” are not a thing. But when it comes to alternative histories, which are British-Guyanese artist Hew Locke’s stock in trade, the words make a lot more sense.
Below we examine 75 of the most important and exciting Latinx artists, who have had a profound impact on art history and their communities by creating work in which community members can see themselves represented.
As part of a rousing new scheme, dozens of exhibitors will unveil notable works only once the fair opens to the general public.
After his triumphant Tate installation, The Procession, the artist is preparing a radical exhibition tackling Britain’s imperial past. He talks about why we must return plundered artefacts and rethink attitudes to heritage.
In a show full of beauty and horror, which even includes ‘Jamaica’s Elgin Marbles’, the artist places his own works alongside those plundered by Britain from long-destroyed peoples.
Sitting inside a grand office at the British Museum, with a bright green scarf draped over his slim black suit, Hew Locke, the 64-year-old British artist, is casting his mind back to the first time he visited its collection.
Robin F. Williams’ show Good Mourning at P·P·O·W gallery in Tribeca sees their paintings grow into realism.
Works from Picasso, Martin Wong, Hilma af Klint, among other recognizable names.
Ruins of Rooms explores not just the relationship between their work but the conceptual echoes between their generations.
In celebration of the launch of Robin F. Williams: We've Been Expecting You, the first major monograph on the artist’s work, P·P·O·W is pleased to host a conversation between Williams and writer Annabel Keenan.
This election season, 11 artists shared with CULTURED an artwork that changed the way they think.
Pepón Osorio is known for his provocative, large scale multimedia installations that merge conceptual art and community dynamics.
“Artists on Our Radar” is a monthly series focused on five artists who have our attention. Utilizing our art expertise and Artsy data, we’ve determined which artists made an impact this past month through new gallery representation, exhibitions, auctions, art fairs, or fresh works on Artsy.
P·P·O·W is pleased to announce representation of Daniel Correa Mejía.
P·P·O·W and the FLAG Art Foundation are pleased to present an evening celebrating the release of "Hilary Harkness: Everything For You," the first comprehensive monograph on the artist’s work.
Twilight Child illuminated how both artists interweave influences from their Chinese heritage into their practice.
In a cultural landscape where a shade of neon green can define the energy of a summer—and even leak into a presidential election—a nuanced visual identity is essential for any brand.
In her debut as CULTURED’s Co-Chief Critic, Johanna Fateman surveys New York’s early-September wave of gallery openings, offering picks for pre-election jitters.
Your guide for what to see of the 52 participating galleries in this year’s Apertura Madrid Gallery Weekend
Srijon Chowdhury’s work occupies a liminal space between reality and dream, where meticulous realism intertwines with surreal, exaggerated forms.
“We really went there,” Robin F. Williams proclaims about a wild vacation to Fire Island they took with friend and fellow painter Jenna Gribbon.
This Saturday in New York, a reading commemorates the late artist and activist on what would have been his 70th birthday.
A remembrance event on Saturday night, September 14, will include readings and a candlelit procession to the LGBTQ Memorial at Hudson River Park.
Four friends and collaborators of the late artist share memories about his laughter, activism and radical visions.
Events across Manhattan will pay tribute to the late artist through readings, film screenings, music and a candlelit procession
There are a lot of things I’ve felt looking at the work of Elizabeth Glaessner, but I’m not sure any of those feelings are correct after spending a morning taking in her every word.
From Srijon Chowdhury’s spectacular debut at P·P·O·W, to a tightly edited show of Mark Armijo McKnight’s work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, here’s what not to miss in New York City.
A major new exhibition by the renowned Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke to open at the British Museum in October.
From a French artist’s take on American politics to lively experiments in color and composition.
Pepón Osorio’s installation centers on patients of color experiencing traumatic medical crises.
Beyond Frieze and Kiaf, there's a lot to see in Seoul in September.
Oscillating between a highly stylized technique and uncanny realism, the Portland-based artist’s prismatic compositions elements from daily life to find the universal in the quotidian.
Robin F. Williams Summons Horror and Hope in 'Good Mourning'
A new body of work by Robin F. Williams is an event.
Once in a blue moon I encounter an artist that I fall in love with instantly. Martin Wong is such an artist. And I thank the people who have preserved his work, and memories of his life.
P·P·O·W is pleased to announce the co-representation of Portland-based artist Srijon Chowdhury with Ciaccia Levi, Paris.
At the core of the exhibition is a circular steel installation, inspired by a mosque built by the artist’s ancestors in Bangladesh.
Celebrating more than 300 trailblazing artists, Great Women Sculptors, forthcoming from Phaidon, surveys half a millennium of remarkable work from the Renaissance to today.
A new exhibition in Berlin pairs the work of Jimmy DeSana and Paul P, two artists who pushed at the limits of photography and depicted queer desire in new and unconventional ways
While Jimmy DeSana was on his deathbed in 1990, he asked Laurie Simmons to oversee his estate. Since 2013, Danielle Bartholomew and I have helped her care for Jimmy’s work. For us, as artists, this labor is just as important as the time we spend on our own practices.
Robin F. Williams is not afraid of the dark. Their current paintings explore the roles and fates of women in horror films, particularly B-movie slashers.
Ruins of Rooms is an ode to a lost generation and the conclusion of my program at KW, through which I sought to advocate for the marginalized, the overlooked and the radical.
In her third solo exhibition at P·P·O·W Gallery, Just a Pretty Face by Betty Tompkins removes the nude female body from a sexualized space and places it before us to observe objectively.
A grisaille, airbrushed painting of a vagina overlooks the bustling Tribeca neighborhood through a window from where it hangs at P·P·O·W.
“You ever watch her laugh? She’s crazy.” Is this a trope straight out of the gender discrimination playbook or the campaign rhetoric of a leading presidential candidate?
He traced the dramatic transformation of the Lower East Side from his building, where he lived for 50 years. He also assisted the cartoonist Saul Steinberg.
Bookforum contributors on the season’s outstanding art books
Even though school is out, an exhibition at P·P·O·W’s second-floor gallery space in Manhattan turns the spotlight onto the arbiters of education — teachers.
Here, we highlight eight contemporary artists whose works pause to take a closer look at city life.
New book ‘Jimmy DeSana: Salvation’ sees the artist’s final series finally published, offering an intimate look at the life of the DeSana’s inner life as he confronted the shadow of death.
Two professions, one predicated on power and the other creation, are at play in Airhead, a group show currently on view at the Lower Manhattan gallery P·P·O·W.
Every July, most New York contemporary galleries present “group exhibitions” – a dizzying variety of intelligent curation, unexpected juxtapositions, and exciting introductions to new artists.
For Betty Tompkins there are fish without mothers and seas without fish.
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
This autumn, Tate Modern will celebrate the early innovators of optical, kinetic, programmed and digital art, who forged a new era of immersive environments and art works engaging with new technologies.
Nothing says summer in New York like a slew of July group shows before galleries shut their doors for August and everyone juts off to somewhere cool or coastal to escape the heat.
It took me a whole week to finally accept Đỉnh Q. Lê’s sudden departure.
British-Guyanese sculptor’s collage to be unveiled at British Academy with British Museum show in October.
In conjunction with Airhead, P·P·O·W is pleased to announce a program of exercises, teach-ins, and performances called Faculty Meetings, part of an ongoing teacher-focused project organized by Timmy Simonds, called Miss Othmar School for Teachers.
A new volume of Hilary Harkness’s paintings enfolds us into surreal worlds of gender-bending militaries, feminine revenge, and alternative histories.
At the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, the artist’s cinematic tableaux announce his arrival on the mainstage of queer figurative painting.
From inspiring exhibitions by Catherine Opie, Penny Slinger and Lonnie Holley, to tantalising new restaurant openings, here’s what we’re looking forward to this month.
“[I] have always worked from the perspective of starting with home, then street, neighborhood, city, world,” the artist told Hyperallergic critic John Yau.
Anton van Dalen, a New York-based artist known for his fantastical cityscapes and his depictions of the East Village, passed away on June 25th at 86.
Their’s wasn’t a migration of better opportunity. They weren’t pursing the “American Dream,” whatever that is.
Dutch-born artist Anton van Dalen, who for more than fifty years chronicled New York’s East Village and its wild denizens, from people to pigeons—a particular passion—died at his home on June 25.
An East Village fixture for a half-century, Van Dalen created stylized drawings, paintings, sculptures and performances documenting his surroundings.
P·P·O·W is deeply saddened to announce that Anton van Dalen, influential artist and dear friend, passed away peacefully in his sleep from natural causes surrounded by his family, in his beloved home in the East Village, on June 25th.
Anton van Dalen, an artist who devoted much of his career to memorializing the East Village, the New York neighborhood he called home for more than 50 years, died on Tuesday at 86.
The artist loved birds, often featuring them prominently in his paintings.
The Brooklyn-based artist's works are now on view in "Matrix 194" at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Connecticut.
Artists have always depended on love. Like water in an unforgiving desert, romantic relationships can be a bountiful source of inspiration, and an exploration of one’s own self through a new pair of eyes.
Venerable artists who double as crackerjack museum directors, Brittni Ann Harvey and Harry Gould Harvey IV somehow haven’t compromised in either realm.
Works from Richard Prince, Matthew Barney, Ghada Amer, and more are on view in a series of new shows.
The Scandinavian artist duo on a Berlin puddle, a phallic dedication and why missed purchase opportunities should be a reason for joy rather than regret.
Thanks to high inflation and geopolitical turmoil, it has been a buyer’s market for the past year, and if the opening day at Art Basel is any indicator, that’s not changing any time soon.
The memorial is planned to be unveiled in east London in summer 2026.
“As well as the past, this memorial also needs to be about the present and the future – and children signify the future."
My first and, sadly, last interview with Dinh Q. Lê transpired in his studio in 2022, though we had known each other for years.
For this Pride Month, Artsy tapped eight curators and tastemakers with ties to the queer community to share the artists they’re championing this month, and why. Through their eyes, we dive into the practices of more than 70 artists, who together speak to the essence of Pride and why the visibility of LGBTQ+ artists is critical not just this month, but always.
Whether in Aspen or Arkansas, there’s a bevy of bold new shows to inspire this summer's travel plans.
Who is Jay Lynn Gomez? That question animates the artist’s current exhibition at P·P·O·W in New York, and the answer is a bit complicated, ever evolving.
“The Procession,” a 140-mannequin mob made by the artist Hew Locke in 2022 for the Tate Britain, explodes with color and life.
Robin F. Williams is already having quite the year.
The New York Academy of Art has a low profile but its graduates are deeply involved in the contemporary art world.
Terrazas presents a new series of paintings and ceramic sculptures that together create a sacred space which honors duality and ideals of empathy and reciprocity.
As is typical, the May season saw the setting of several major auction records. Here, we select 10 of the notable new auction benchmarks set during the week.
At P·P·O·W in New York, Pat Phillips’ dreamlike compositions and eerie juxtapositions meditate on race and class disparities in America.
140 life-size figures make up “The Procession,” British artist Hew Locke’s sprawling, carnival-esque installation commissioned by the Tate Britain in 2022.
In 2018, Locke embellished a photograph of the Columbus statue in New York’s Central Park, bedecking the explorer in pearls and gold filagree.
New artist records were set at its New York headquarters for Martin Wong, Ana Mendieta, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and more.
Christie’s realized US$114.6 million in consecutive contemporary art auctions on Tuesday less than a week after it suffered a major security breach that prompted the auction house to take down its website.
On May 14th, as part of Spring Marquee Week, Christie’s held its evening sales at New York’s Rockefeller Center.
The biennial probes the interconnectedness of different liberation movements—as spotlighted in the affinities shared by two Chinese diasporic portraitists, for instance, or personified within lives such as Cole’s.
During a key moment at Christie’s New York salesroom on Tuesday night, the lights dimmed and the crowd oohed and aahed—but it wasn’t a hack.
Pat Phillips often creates works on paper, a delicate but enduring surface that he layers upon layers on with acrylic, pencil, airbrush and aerosol paint.
“The best painting by Martin Wong to ever come to auction” will be offered at Christie’s in New York this month, says Isabella Lauria, the house’s head of the 21st century evening sale.
Meet the artists using traditional materials to weave a modern narrative.
In one of the flats, the American painter Elizabeth Glaessner was showing the work she’d made in response to living there, an artist’s residency organized by Olivier Zahm of Purple magazine.
On a mission to right imperial wrongs, “Entangled Pasts, 1768–now: Art, Colonialism and Change” knotted together more than a hundred historical and contemporary works to explore “art and its role in shaping narratives of empire.”
Vibrant colors and fantastical creatures are in abundance in shows by Sanam Khatibi, Julia Bland, Claude Lawrence, Annette Wehrhahn, and others.
Once a nanny for a wealthy Beverly Hills family, Jay Lynn Gomez lived alongside celebrities, often surrounded by paparazzi who would crop her and her colleagues out of their photos.
“Framing the show as a group of paintings that are actually anticipating the viewer, or expecting the viewer, I hope changes the context that you experience them.”
Robin F. Williams, whose first solo museum show opened this month in her hometown in Ohio, is evolving through her works, which are often injected with humor.
His most famous work — collages of Vietnam War photographs, popular film stills and Western imagery — focused on a history of his homeland that he feared was being lost.
P·P·O·W is delighted to announce that Carlos Motta’s Corpo Fechado: The Devil’s Work (2018) is included in Marco Scotini’s Disobedience Archive at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Adriano Pedrosa.
Two women who lived a century apart created fascinating, striking paintings − mostly of women – that are now on view at the Columbus Museum of Art.
Vietnamese-American artist Dinh Q. Lê has died aged 56, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery has announced.
Vietnamese-American artist, best known for his distinctive photo-weaving works, made powerful statements in photography, video, sculpture and installation that challenged politics, history and memory.
Vietnamese American multimedia artist Dinh Q. Lê, known for his multimedia “photo-weaving” installations, passed away at the age of 56 on April 6th.
Vietnamese-born multimedia artist Dinh Q. Lê, whose work explored the trauma wrought by the Vietnam War, died of a stroke April 6 at his home in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Robin F. Williams' work is even more profound, mysterious and technically masterful when seen over the course of decades of progress.
Renowned Vietnamese artist Dinh Q. Lê died of stroke at the age of 56, as confirmed by his New York gallery, P·P·O·W. Lê's art delved into Vietnam's collective consciousness, profoundly impacted by conflict and historical loss.
Dinh Q. Lê, a 56-year-old Vietnamese-American multimedia artist, passed away unexpectedly on April 6 in Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong’s 10 Chancery Lane Gallery announced today.
Lê built his reputation borrowing a technique his aunt used to make mats out of grass. He also helped establish institutions crucial to the support of Vietnamese artists.
The artist wove together the irresolvable themes of identity, changeability, and memory both personal and historical.
P·P·O·W is deeply saddened to announce that Dinh Q. Lê, influential artist and dear friend, passed away suddenly on April 6, 2024, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He was 56 years old.
Dinh Q. Lê, an acclaimed Vietnamese artist who showed how his nation’s collective consciousness had been transformed by conflict and the loss of history, has died at 56.
A new art biennale and an ambitious cultural center are part of a concerted effort to rewrite the island nation’s reputation.
Dating back to the late 18th century, retablos are small devotional paintings created to thank God or a saint for their protection during a particularly trying or dangerous event. In his show, Si no sanas hoy, sanarás mañana, Guadalupe Maravilla conjures this tradition as he nests narrative works inside spiny mixed-media sculptures that address the indelible impact of childhood trauma.
Entitled "Les voix des fleuves, Crossing the water", the 17th edition of the Lyon Biennale invites artists to interrogate and investigate the subject of the waxing and waning relationships of human beings with one another and with their environment.
François Ghebaly, Los Angeles // April 06, 2024 - May 11, 2024
The artists redefining portraits of the human body for a more inclusive age.
Bernadette Despujols, Niki de Saint Phalle, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne, and more are on view in exhibitions opening across the globe.
Elizabeth Glaessner’s dreamlike worlds, Merrick Morton’s candid portraiture, Costa Rican artists on the body and identity, Sargent Claude Johnson, and more.
On April 8, the sun and the moon will align for the first total eclipse over the Austin area in more than 600 years. Before then, starting on the morning of April 2, two works of art by acclaimed El Salvador-born, New York City-based Guadalupe Maravilla will align in Austin public spaces for a series of viewings and ceremonies.
As Art Basel returns to full scale in Hong Kong, we spotlight seven galleries exhibiting at the 2024 edition of the fair
Artist Guadalupe Maravilla joins curator Eugenie Tsai for a conversation.
For decades, women gallerists have worked with women artists to create networks of support, friendship, and research that seek to challenge the male-dominated environment of the art world. Today, they continue to maintain the urgency of this project in a myriad of different ways.
Whether it's the simplicity of a dinner or the moment of contact in a warm embrace, Lovell immortalizes the ephemera in his canvases. And with verde, Lovell embarks on a journey of self-discovery through monumental portraits that invited viewers into the depths of his mind.
The 2024 Fire Island Artist Residency (FIAR) benefit auction is special for both its cause and curators. This year’s sale, which runs from March 15th through 28th on Artsy, is curated by collectors Rob and Eric Thomas-Suwall.
After decades of visiting the British Museum, Locke presents overlooked objects and under-explored histories.
Please join P·P·O·W, Primary Information, and The Poetry Project in celebrating the publication of Martin Wong’s Footprints, Poems, and Leaves and Das Puke Book! Featuring readings by John Ahearn, Wo Chan, Lydia Cortés, Christopher “Daze” Ellis, Antonia Kuo, Eugene Lim, and Emily Zhou!
Wojnarowicz's work is featured in a new exhibition at MoMA along with his contemporaries from the Eighties New York downtown scene
Other highlights include the culinary cinema of Fredrick Wiseman and Bei Dao's poetics on life in exile
In conjunction with Guadalupe Maravilla’s solo exhibition, Si no sanas hoy, sanarás mañana, P·P·O·W is pleased to present a series of meditations and sound ceremonies on March 6, 7, 8, and 12.
P·P·O·W is pleased to host an intimate conversation between painters Gerald Lovell and Taylor Simmons in conjunction with their ongoing solo exhibitions, Gerald Lovell: verde, at P·P·O·W and Taylor Simmons: LIMBO = Living Is My Best Option at Helena Anrather.
The Hollywood hitmaker curated decor from a range of eras to contrast with the clean lines of his famous abode, Richard Neutra’s 1955 Brown House
This week, Martha Schwendener covers Astrid Klein’s “photoworks,” the group show “Godzilla” by Asian American artists, David Levine’s hypnotic “Dissolution” and Theaster Gates’s first solo at White Cube.
The Venice Biennale, arguably the world’s most important recurring art exhibition, has named the 331 artists and collectives that will participate in this year’s edition, set to run from April 20 to November 24.
‘Entangled Pasts, 1768–now’ and the exhibition history the RA hopes to be part of
P·P·O·W is pleased to announce the co-representation of Berlin-based artist Hortensia Mi Kafchin with Galerie Judin.
Welcome to This Week in Culture, a weekly agenda of show openings and events in major cities across the globe. From galleries to institutions and one-of-a-kind happenings, our ongoing survey highlights the best of contemporary culture, for those willing to make the journey.
The Carolee Schneemann Foundation and P·P·O·W, in conjunction with our current exhibition Carolee Schneemann: Of Course You Can / Don’t You Dare, are pleased to announce Rrose’s performance of James Tenney’s “Having Never Written a Note for Percussion”.
P·P·O·W is pleased to host a conversation between painters Katharine Kuharic and Kurt Kauper in conjunction with Kuharic’s ongoing solo exhibition, The Foliated Room. Moderated by artist TM Davy, the conversation will explore both artists’ distinct approaches to image-making, shared affinity for multilayered symbolism, and interest in cultivating open-ended narratives through figurative painting.
We asked our staff and contributors to look back on a year in art around the world, from major museum shows to unexpected gems in alternative spaces.
Meticulous in approach, Katharine Kuharic fuses multilayered representational elements and vibrant colors in her socially charged paintings, transforming them into compelling, dream-like narratives about the contemporary condition.
The first major display of the late artist’s work since her death in 2019 explores the impact of the people she loved and the work she hated.
For this year-end list, BOMB asked Zoë Buckman, Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Sean Fader, Hilary Harkness, Justine Kurland, Le’Andra LeSeur, Sahana Ramakrishnan, Tracey Rose, Jason Stopa, Pace Taylor, and Quay Quinn Wolf to tell us what sustained them.
Art fair fatigue is real, but seeing these pieces made trekking through the convention center's maze of booths worthwhile.
These contemporary Latinx artists have made vital contributions to the art world. From the thought-provoking textile and light installations of Gabriel Dawe to the explorations of power structures of Augustina Woodgate, and the re-examinations of ancient imagery of Claudia Peña Salinas, these eight artists have impacted how we see our communities, our culture, and the natural world.
Contemporary female artists are approaching abstraction with an eye toward the inner world.
Hundreds of exhibitions, but only ten can win
The El Salvadorian artist muses on sound therapy, trauma, and his own migration journey to the U.S. in a new show at Ballroom Marfa.
With 277 galleries from 39 countries, the 21st edition of Art Basel Miami Beach presents more showstopping art than could possibly be seen over its three-day public run from 8 - 11 December.
When the doors flew open on the media preview to this 21st edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, an eager crowd of press and VIPs was greeted by a giant inflatable globe. This, it would seem, is a representation of the globally essential art fair’s limitless reach. And, yes, the globe was made small by the size and scope of the behemoth Art Basel has become.
From a posthumous Martin Wong retrospective in Camden to Matthew Arthur Williams’s sensitive debut in Dundee
Queer cutouts, portable candies, and a retrospective of an American master.
As the fair opens for previews, these talents—representing a range of mediums and creative perspectives—are drawing attention in Miami.
In addition to its impressionist matchup “Manet/Degas,” the Met unveiled Lauren Halsey’s spectacular new rooftop installation. Our critics weigh in on this year’s most thrilling shows.
My late summer visit to Portia Munson's home-studio in rural Catskill was among the most enchanting art experiences of the year.
Our cover art for the new issue of Delayed Gratification is Matched by artist Robin F Williams. Robin is a New York-based artist known for her large-scale paintings of female figures. In November 2023 she partnered with New York gallery and art dealer Pace Prints to release Matched, with the proceeds going to Fair Fight, the Georgia-based voting rights organisation set up by Democratic political leader Stacey Abrams.
Tara and Jack Benmeleh, Dennis Scholl, and Pilar Crespi Robert share how life in Miami shaped the development of their very different art collections.
Winter is usually a sleepy season for museums across the world. Fall exhibitions remain on view with the hope of luring visitors during the cold months while curators typically prep big retrospectives for the spring. But that will not entirely be the case this time around.
The artist, who recently staged their first solo exhibition with PPOW, is known for their compelling mix of mythological and spiritual subject matter.
The curator and philanthropist promotes the artists of the region through acquisition, writing and lectures
Chance the Rapper, artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons, and philanthropist Estrellita B. Brodsky are among those who will take the stage
Ranging from painting to installation and beyond, the latest additions to the museum's holdings include contemporary voices as well as legends like Nam June Paik and Robert Irwin
In Soy el dueño de mi casa, Daniel Correa Mejía’s first solo exhibition with P·P·O·W, the artist presents a new series of paintings and ceramic sculptures which explore humanistic themes of loss, relationships, and collective being.
Christian Ludwig Attersee, Dyani White Hawk, Carolee Schneemann, Pope.L, and more are on view in exhibition openings across the globe.
The work of Hilary Harkness makes me think of early Renaissance paintings with their dazzling detail, lyrical line, delicate parts, and highly keyed local color. The sense that you are seeing everything at once. Except the subject matter is a bit different.
Elizabeth Dee in conversation with Alan Belcher, James Fuentes, and Wendy Olsoff
What to show, and how to show it, is being recontextualized by a new generation of creatives
The Salvadoran artist has blended Indigenous traditions, sound therapy, and symbolism to create a transformative exhibition that is embarking on a tour across Texas.
The painter’s first solo show in a decade, at P·P·O·W, offers an imaginative alternate history set immediately before, during and after the War Between the States.
On the heels of a bustling month of art fairs in London and Paris, the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) ushered in its 35th edition of The Art Show in New York. This year’s fair, running from November 2nd to 5th at the historic Park Avenue Armory, features 78 ADAA member galleries and includes solo artist presentations.
This year, which marks the 35th year of the fair and the 130th anniversary of Henry Street Settlement, many galleries chose to bring solo booths by artists, providing opportunities for viewers to immerse themselves in the artists on view, while also providing a bit more scholarship and in-depth reading of each artist, and Whitewall picked its five favorite solo presentations.
From Doyle’s new gallery space in Charleston to Chris Wolston’s whimsical pieces installed at Hotel Bel-Air
Want to see new art in New York this weekend? Check out a compact Edward Hopper exhibition in the Upper East Side, and don’t miss Arthur Dove’s visionary landscapes and Hilary Harkness’s jewel-like canvases in TriBeCa.
Paintings that offer semi-real and entirely imagined historical narratives.
The Hollywood powerhouse agency has been showcasing art in its Beverly Hills gallery space, as well as in Atlanta and New York.
The artist’s correspondence with a Parisian boyfriend offers a glimpse of his life before AIDS.
She tweaks history with witty and often disturbing panache.
The artist has a new show that deconstructs the Civil War, Gertrude Stein, queer desire and Ernest Hemingway
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
P·P·O·W's presentation at Paris+ will coincide with the Parisian launch of Dear Jean Pierre at After8 Books on Friday, October 20, 7pm.
The artist’s first solo exhibition in Chicago raises questions about how queer people want or are allowed to exist in certain spaces.
The second edition of Paris+ par Art Basel returns to Grand Palais Éphémère and its extension on the Champ de Mars with a selection of 154 leading galleries from 33 countries and territories.
There is nothing better than a crisp autumn day for gallery hopping and, luckily, New York’s gallery shows are changing as fast as the weather. We’ve surveyed the solo show landscape and there’s plenty to peep besides leaves this October.
Head of fairs Vincenzo de Bellis says Paris+ par Art Basel will be more noticeable throughout the capital
Elephant’s Art Features Editor, Emily Burke, starts her visit at Frieze London
British artist Hew Locke, whose past work has engaged with controversial public statues, weighed in on the new guidelines.
P·P·O·W is pleased to host a conversation between artist Carlos Motta and curator Bernardo Mosqueira in conjunction with Jjagɨyɨ: Air of Life | Carlos Motta with Elio Miraña, ELO, Gil Farekatde Maribba, Higinio Bautista, Kiyedekago, Rosita, and Yoí nanegü.
Morán Morán, Mexico City // September 20, 2023 - November 04, 2023
The 39 artists and collectives in the sixth edition of the Hammer Museum’s show call LA home but make visible legacies of migration that have built and shaped the city.
On today's A Portfolio, we look into the roster at PPOW in NYC and see the works of up-and-coming and buzzworthy abstract painter, Grace Carney.
“Acts of Living,” the sixth iteration of the Hammer Museum's biennial exhibition Made in LA, pays special attention to the work of Latinx and Indigenous artists.
From Jackson Pollock’s solo debut to Philip Guston’s recent retrospective, a look at the exhibitions that have shaped the city’s art scene and the culture at large.
From building and packing crates in-house to flying in artists to create the work locally, galleries are finding new ways to minimize transport spend and cut carbon emissions
Pepón Osorio’s beating heart was recently on display in New York, as part of his largest solo exhibition to date at the New Museum. After four decades as an artist, working predominantly as a storyteller in and for tight-knit communities of Latinx and Caribbean, working-class folk, this exhibition, titled “My Beating Heart/Mi Corazón Latiente,” was a triumph.
The rising star is readying her largest canvases to date for her first solo show, taking place this winter at P·P·O·W gallery in Lower Manhattan
P·P·O·W is pleased to announce the co-representation of Los Angeles-based artist Ishi Glinsky with Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles.
The artist mosie romney envisions new releases by Major Jackson, Ayana Mathis and more.
The Hammer Museum’s biennial showcases several artists steeped in the scrappy art form, now flourishing in the city.
Martin Wong? Me neither. He came from an era when painting was deemed uncool, irrelevant and, yes, dead — but his work rivals that of Edward Hopper
From Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s first institutional solo show in the US at the New Museum to Elle Perez’s semi-abstract photographs at 47 Canal
Groundbreaking installations that feature health, women, and death.
As September rolls in with a litany of art events, including the annual Armory Show, here are the 11 blockbuster shows you need to see in New York.
Here are 10 standout shows on view during Armory Week.
On a dark night in 1970s Paris, David Wojnarowicz encountered Jean Pierre Delage and formed an unforgettable connection; the new book Dear Jean Pierre brings together three years of their correspondence
JAN WOOLF is sucked into a unique vision of the urban US from the perspective of immigrant and queer communities
Each fall, as the art fair season resurges and galleries open ambitious new shows, a fresh cohort of burgeoning talent captures the art world’s attention. This season is no different, as many artists that have recently joined gallery rosters present debut solo shows, and many others mount new bodies of work to go on view at international fairs, including The Armory Show, Frieze Seoul, and Frieze London.
Here, we share 11 such artists who we’ll be watching this fall.
Below, the 100 greatest works about New York City.
Plus: The return of “Oldboy”; the maximalist visionary Pepón Osorio; the folksinger Iris DeMent; and more.
In its collection of approximately 300 letters, postcards, sketches, Xeroxes, and photographs, the book charts a young man finding himself through art, love, and loss
A wealth of dazzling exhibitions will renew your faith in art’s capacity to do more than mint money.
The Chinese-American’s queer, multilingual painting’s used to be difficult to decode. But as a new retrospective of his politically prophetic work becomes a surprise summer hit, has his time finally come?
New Additions Reflect SFMOMA’s Collecting Priorities, Including Works by Artists Connected to the Bay Area
The author of I Will Greet the Sun Again chronicles a personal relationship with the late artist and his defiant, fiery work.
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At P.P.O.W, New York, the artist presents drawings, sculptures and installations created from the material and spiritual detritus of his Massachusetts hometown
The Puerto Rican artist emphasizes community in installations crafted from everyday objects
New York galleries are currently observing “summer hours” (closed on weekends), but there are some exceptional under-the-radar gems worth sneaking out of work a little early on a weekday. Innovation, curiosity, intelligence, and visual sparks link my four favorite gallery exhibitions on view now in New York.
A painter of urban brick abandonment, Chinatown merchants, and kissing inmates, Martin Wong is having a moment, kindled by an interest in intersectional figuration twenty years after his death. Yet his images of society’s margins are as enigmatic as they are empathetic: Hot yet held back, they reflect his desire to be both one with and apart from the worlds he drifted into.
The legacy of A.I.R. Gallery is a testament to its innovative spirit and commitment to supporting women’s voices in the art world. In conjunction with Dotty Attie’s What Surprised Them Most, a survey exhibition of works from 1974 to 2023, P·P·O·W, New York, hosted a panel discussion in July 2023, with Attie and fellow A.I.R. Gallery founding members Judith Bernstein and Daria Dorosh.
In spite of the tumult and financial precarity that accompanies an endeavor as risky as theirs, P.P.O.W—named after the initials of its founders—has prospered through four successive locations across Manhattan. Today in Tribeca, the gallery has made a name for itself as a hub of collective care, where trust and resilience circulate.
At the New Museum, Pepón Osorio’s exhilarating assemblages and installations hold a mirror up to Latino communities and reflect his experiences in Puerto Rico and New York.
In conjunction with Dotty Attie’s What Surprised Them Most, a survey exhibition of major works from 1974 to 2023, P·P·O·W is pleased to host a panel discussion with Attie and fellow A.I.R. Gallery founding members Judith Bernstein and Daria Dorosh.
This month: love, beauty, kink, and Purell bottles with works by Pepón Osorio, Kahlil Gibran, Gego, Susan Chen, and others.
The artist is not afraid to be bold with his emotions as he examines family, race and masculinity
Pushing herself into daring new territory, the British rising star she will be creating an installation inspired by ruins for a joint exhibition with her husband at Ben Hunter gallery in London in October
The director of Paris+ par Art Basel unveils the highlights of the forthcoming 2023 edition
Throughout history, conservatives have consistently targeted artists creating works outside of their agenda.
Hip-hop’s street artists created a splashy new genre that burst into galleries and museums
Pepón Osorio is not like other artists.
A survey of the Chinese American artist confirms him as one of the most unusual, ingenious and forceful painters of his time
The transgressive legacy of the late Chinese-American artist resists his subsequent commodification as a sanitised ‘unsung hero’ of gay art history
Ahead of shows this summer at the Hessel Museum of Art and the North American Pavilion in London, the artist shares his sonic influences and vision of Los Angeles.
The most salient development for performance art after 1950, though, was the sheer number of artists who embraced it. What follows, then, is a necessarily abridged account of this fascinating chapter in art history.
Through his politically radical paintings, Martin Wong sought to highlight marginalised communities in late 20th-century San Francisco and New York
John Yau remembers an inimitable artist who embraced his queerness, and wonders what he might say about his acceptance into the mainstream today
Carolee Schneemann at P.P.O.W
Here, we spotlight five LGBTQ+ artists who, while not fully appreciated during their lifetimes, are being recognized posthumously in the art world today.
P·P·O·W is pleased to announce the representation of multi-disciplinary artist Pepón Osorio
As Asian American and Pacific Islander History Month winds down, it’s important to note how many AAPI artists, architects, collectors, and activists have changed the course of art history in the United States and around the world. Here are 25 Asian American and Pacific Islander artists who have made key contributions to modern and contemporary art in a variety of mediums, styles, and movements.
Other highlights include a collection of poetry and ephemera by US writer John Wieners and a beautiful monograph of the Scottish painter Carole Gibbons.
Take the water shuttle over to the ICA’s Eastie outpost and explore the new Guadalupe Maravilla: Mariposa Relámpago exhibit. At its center is Mariposa Relámpago (Lightning Butterfly), a newly commissioned work for the ICA Watershed and the artist’s largest sculpture to date.
The artist’s traumatic journey from El Salvador to the US pervades his work, but his intention is repair.
Robin F. Williams’s practice employs oil, acrylics, pencils, and pastels, frequently depicting female figures in a range of situations on large-scale canvases. The artist, who is represented by P.P.O.W and has more than 109,000 followers on Instagram, is among a number of female figurative artists that have had breakout moments at auction in recent years.
Born out of the artist’s traumatic experience immigrating as an unaccompanied minor and suffering from colon cancer as an adult, the ongoing body of work evinces the healing power of sound and vibration.
Discover the artists that made the biggest splash at the New York fairs in May
For all his flirtations with oblivion (including a mad dash at binning all his work), Martin Wong was the profane prophet of the Lower East Side’s grimy sublime. Photographed in 1992, just seven years before his death from Aids, the artist’s chaotic apartment – alive with the text and textures of his New York neighbourhood – was just as faithful a portrait of the city as any he painted, teeming with tributes to his sofa-surfers and unsung street-art heroes
This season we’re getting a unique chance to reassess certain loved and unloved artists.
Wendy Olsoff and Penny Pilkington founded P·P·O·W in early ‘80s New York. To bring the gallery into its fourth decade, Olsoff's daughter Eden Deering is keeping things fresh.
As the blooms of spring emerge, so does a fresh wave of artistic brilliance in the heart of New York City. This season, the cultural landscape is filled with groundbreaking exhibitions that not only captivate the senses but also honor the remarkable contributions of female artists. In honor of the abundance of art to go see, we rounded up four remarkable shows to see this month. From art pioneer Yayoi Kusama to contemporary trailblazer Hortensia Mi Kafchin, these exhibitions all engage in a profound exploration of each artist’s vision, creativity, and impact.
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More than half of the auction's lots were created by women.
With two weeks worth of art fairs in New York, from Independent to Frieze, the city is about to add one more, a new initiative called That ’70s Show.
Seven artists achieved new sales benchmarks at Christie’s Contemporary Art sale in New York on Monday night, including Simone Leigh, a star of the 2022 Venice Biennale, and Robin F. Williams, a figurative painter still in her 30s.
Transfiguring discarded architectural parts and detritus into new bodies for an alternative, boundless world, Chiffon Thomas rebuilds from rubble.
A selection of leading British and British-based artists have begun work on artworks reflecting on the Coronation.
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.
The first New York art fair week of 2023 is upon us.
Some may be anticipating a shift toward abstraction in the contemporary art market at large, but figuration is still front and centre at the Independent art fair this year.
Art history is filled with nakedness. To be specific, it’s filled with naked women depicted by men.
Ten paintings. Each engaging; each mysterious; each stranger than the next.
Long sidelined by flat works which are easier to sell digitally, the 3D is resurgent
In his newest exhibition showing at the PPOW Gallery, Brooklyn based artist Kyle Dunn captures moments of quiet and sublime intimacy between men.
There is a kind of resonance between the collision of particle beams inside the Large Hadron Collider and Suzanne Treister’s research: a shared tension in wanting to reveal and dilate the possibilities of the manifestation of space and time.
The much-anticipated 14th iteration of Independent New York, a cutting-edge art fair, is on view from May 11-14 at Spring Studios.
Kyle Dunn’s Night Pictures offers quiet, intimate scenes that hum with depth.
The exhibition Strings of Desire at Craft Contemporary in Los Angeles showcases the works of 13 artists who put the art of embroidery at the centre of their multimedia works.
In this monthly series, we gather thoughts and highlights from Artsy’s in-house art experts on what they’re seeing, looking forward to, and enjoying in the art world this month.
The 14th Gwangju Biennale (until 9 July) takes as its tagline ‘soft and weak like water’ – a phrase inspired by the classical Chinese treatise Tao Te Ching in which Laozi proposed the paradoxical power of the soft and subtle to overcome seemingly insurmountable challenges.
Kyle Dunn’s new exhibition, Night Pictures, studies a single queer protagonist in their most personal and contemplative moments.
LA-based artist Ishi Glinsky often works big, enlarging smaller objects to honor the traditional art forms of the Tohono O’odham Nation.
The theme of nocturnal interiors in Kyle Dunn’s solo show “Night Pictures” at PPOW highlights his fascinating handling of light and shadow.
P·P·O·W is pleased to announce the representation of Grace Carney and Mosie Romney.
The Chinese-American artist emerges as a painter of urban decay who mashed together social and magical realism
“Trending Now” is a monthly series focused on the artists with a significant growth in followers on Artsy from one month to the next.
At the 14th Gwangju Biennale's press conference, a local journalist probed artistic director Sook-Kyung Lee on the difference between this edition's themes and the one before it.
“Malicious Mischief,” the title of KW’s Martin Wong retrospective, hearkens back to a pair of paintings of mustached and muscle-bound prison officers, and, in legal terms, to the crime of willfully damaging another person’s property.
Plus, the National Portrait Gallery raises enough money to jointly buy a rare portrait with the Getty and a T-Rex will go on view in Antwerp.
The grant-giving foundation preserves Warhol's legacy through research, licensing and advancement of the visual arts.
As a recurring art event, the Gwangju Biennale carries a heavy burden: to deal with the legacy and trauma of the democratic uprising and the massacre that followed in the city in May 1980, a recent historical event that has not reached its closure.
With an installation on view at the 14th Gwangju Biennale and an exhibition at ICA Watershed opening in May 2023, the artist talks about creating space to heal through his art
Marissa Zappas, who has made perfumes with sex workers and astrologers, is the nose behind an exhibit’s provocative new fragrance.
Artists have often been forced to hold down another job in order to make ends meet. For many, being able to leave these second roles in order to focus full time on art is the ultimate goal.
In conjunction with Shellyne Rodriguez, Third World Mixtapes: The Infrastructure of Feeling, P·P·O·W presented a virtual discussion between Shellyne Rodriguez, Sohail Daulatzai, Nerdeen Kiswani, and Dequi Kioni Sadiki.
An exhibition in Berlin pays homage to the boundary-pushing legacy of Martin Wong.
A queer photographer’s work ranges from the everyday to abstraction.
On Thursday night in Gwangju, South Korea, as hundreds took their seats on a plaza for the opening ceremony of the city’s storied art biennial, dark clouds loomed overhead.
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art exhibitions to see this April, including Shellyne Rodriguez, Susan Bee, Mandy Al-Sayegh, Corydon Cowansage, and more.
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."
Want to see new art in the city? Check out Che Lovelace and Tauba Auerbach in Chelsea and Shellyne Rodriguez’s terrific debut exhibition in TriBeCa.
Shellyne Rodriguez’s exhibition on view at P·P·O·W in New York through April 22 functions as a kind of curriculum.
Busy, bright installation invites contemplation
In a conversation a few years ago with critic Lauren O’Neill-Butler, Adam Putnam spoke of his interest in what he called “the format of the fragment” and the role it plays in supporting a certain mood of circumspection he wants present in his work—an “ambition to keep things hidden,” as he put it.
In an art world built on shifting sands, artists’ signatures become symbols of agency for some, and relics of the past for others.
Helsinki Biennial 2023 is delighted to share the 29 international artists and collectives participating in its second edition, New Directions May Emerge, curated by Joasia Krysa and produced by HAM Helsinki Art Museum.
A highly subjective list of the concerts, festivals, exhibits, plays, and experiences you shouldn't miss this season.
Join Shellyne Rodriguez and Christina Heatherton for a discussion of Heatherton's recently published book Arise! Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution and the drawings on view in Third World Mixtapes: The Infrastructure of Feeling
New York City offers some of the best art exhibits in the entire world. From contemporary art to immersive experiences, you'll be sure to find something that will catch your eye.
Martin Wong, a queer Chinese American with ranchero flair, was a dynamo of the downtown New York art scene in the 1980s.
At his upcoming show at ICA Watershed, Boston, the artist transports his audience using the power of sound baths.
On the occasion of the artist’s first major retrospective outside of the US, Travis Diehl considers the 1985 painting ‘Untitled (Green Storefront)’
In depicting a disappeared America, Wong’s retrospective holds a mirror to the lost world which surrounds KW itself.
This Women’s History Month, CULTURED delves into the magazine’s archives to highlight 10 female artists who confront gender inequities by redefining the erotic, quashing the idea of women’s work, and refusing to go quietly.
"Abolition: Red, Green & International" Teach-In lead by Ruth Wilson Gilmore at P·P·O·W
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month, including Hew Locke, Saif Azzuz, Miyoko Ito, Shona McAndrew, and more.
Artist Portia Munson has been collecting the products for nearly 40 years
The artist’s immersive artwork explores mass consumerism and the forces of ‘empowerment and entrapment’ impregnated in constructs of femininity
The first international extensive display of the artist’s work outside of the United States.
Jimmy DeSana’s work remains transgressive, even by today’s standards.
I got another visceral feeling looking at light streaming into British sculptor Hew Locke’s “Jumbie House 2,” a model of an abandoned plantation house featuring staggering detail and precarious engineering.
This first museum survey of the important but often overlooked work of photographer Jimmy DeSana (1949–1990) traces his prolific career through nearly 200 works spanning more than 20 years, showcasing his underground aesthetic and his resistance to dominant narratives about the body and sexuality during the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
The largest iteration of either fair to date.
On view from February 15 to 19 at the famous Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, the fair presented 65 galleries from around the world
These new NYC art exhibits and immersive experiences have it all: Iconic fashion, Megan Thee Stallion, and trippy aesthetics.
A painting by the Belgian artist Sanam Khatibi titled “Tasting a Piece of Her Gum” (2023), which she made exclusively for T. Khatibi’s work deals “with animality and our primal instincts,” and she often paints anthropomorphic subjects who “live on their impulses in alluring, exotic landscapes,” she says, “ambiguous [in] their relationship to power, violence, sensuality and each other.”
Great art abounds in this tight, curated affair. In addition to the expected paintings and sculptures, textile-based works is present this time around in abundance, reflecting a trend felt throughout the art world as of late.
From Alice Neels’ hotly anticipated London retrospective, to Portia Munson’s famed pink bedroom in New York, we select the must-see exhibitions from around the world
From Alice Neels’ hotly anticipated London retrospective, to Portia Munson’s famed pink bedroom in New York, we select the must-see exhibitions from around the world.
Scheduled to run from 7 April to 9 July, the show’s organisers have revealed further exhibitions details as well as all the contributors.
From Débora Delmar’s sculptures critiquing gentrification to Deli Gallery’s inaugural show at their new location, these are the must-see shows in CDMX
In 2022, we witnessed a rise in neo-surrealist art, NFTs, and textile-based art practices. These were trends that were bubbling to the surface by the end of 2021, but weren’t fully realized until the spring of the following year. Now, many other styles are emerging as key genres that may have their moment this year.
The exhibition features pioneers such as Keith Haring, OSGEMEOS, and AIKO. Outside of art institutions, local street artists have thrived since the pandemic.
United States Artists Fellowships were awarded today to 45 artists and cultural practitioners across the United States and its territories.
The Chicago-based arts nonprofit United States Artists (USA) named 45 recipients of this year’s fellowships, each of which comes with an unrestricted $50,000 cash award. The selected artists represent 19 states, Puerto Rico, and Guam, and a range of age groups and career stages.
Here, we share 10 artists with major museum solo shows in 2023, spanning everything from sculpture and painting to film and installation art made with artificial intelligence.
This Dutch-born artist has lived on the Lower East Side since 1966 and has trained white pigeons on his building’s roof for almost as long.
The arrival of a major international art fair, with blue-chip exhibitors tapped to participate, typically means that a locale’s art market has reached a certain inflection point. What dealers think about the new art fair says a lot about their expectations, how the art market is changing, and where collectors are located.
The artist has lived in his East Village home and studio since 1968.
A major survey exhibition of Carolee Schneemann’s work looks at the artist’s masterful experimentations, across mediums of performance, installation, film and multimedia.
It is a remarkable detail: The world is affected by upheavals and migrations, but van Dalen, his work and his activist approach have remained local, stable and consistent.
Jimmy DeSana: Submission at the Brooklyn Museum highlights the work of a talented but lesser-known photographer, artist, and LGBTQ advocate.
Our European team handpicked the must-see exhibitions for the first half of this year.
Five artists discuss their plans for 2023, from drawing and painting to sound sculpture and performance art
Bad Reviews contains facsimiles of more than 150 reviews selected by 150 artists, many very famous (Lawrence Weiner, Cindy Sherman, Marilyn Minter), who were solicited through a chain of invitations started by artist Aleksandra Mir.
With a new home in Hobe Sound, local attorney John Morrissey finally has the space to display the art and furniture he has been collecting for 30 years
Hunter Reynolds, an artist and activist whose work influenced generations and poignantly reflected on the immense loss wrought by the AIDS crisis, died on June 12 at 62.
This year, we’re going big with a list of memorable shows from around the world, seen and loved by our editors and contributors.
Claes Oldenburg, Carmen Herrera, Sam Gilliam, and Peter Schjeldahl were among the deceased this year.
Our editorial staff and contributors highlight some of the most unforgettable artworks they saw this year.
This week, a mysterious portrait of Joan Didion, considering Carolee Schneemann, privatizing libraries, Dalit discrimination, the “great internet grievance war,” and more.
A Brooklyn Museum retrospective of Jimmy DeSana’s erotic, compulsive, gender-fluid work makes a case for his ongoing relevance.
During one of many rousing public demonstrations shown in Laura Poitras’s new documentary, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, a middle-aged activist lays out—in the plain, swift terms made possible, at this historical moment, by sheer grim familiarity—the consequences of her child’s encounter in his teens with the painkiller OxyContin. “I don’t expect the Sacklers to care about my son,” she goes on. “But 400,000 lives? Somebody should care about that.”
The New York artist’s work was so ahead of the curve that it has been largely overlooked — until now.
From Björk and Ocean Vuong’s compelling conversation about motherhood and familial bonds, to Harley Weir on the relationship between art and pornography, we look back on our most popular features of the year
Schneemann’s art actions laid bare the continuity between the female body, feminist writing, and sociopolitical acts of protest.
While the holidays in New York are often associated with shopping and ice skating under the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center, several galleries have engaging exhibitions on view that are well worth a visit. Whether you’re a New Yorker staying local or a tourist in town on vacation, these seven shows across the city will add a refreshing dash of culture to the holiday season.
From a show of Ukrainian women artists at Fridman Gallery, New York to Kaari Upson's first posthumous exhibition at Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, here are the best shows of the year
Created as an “art-making center,” ABC No Rio was designed in response to the city’s capitalist-driven gallery scene.
To look back on the past 12 months in art-making, below is a survey of some of the most important artworks made or presented in a new light in 2022.
From the Turner shortlist to the Venice Biennale and more, 2022 was another dazzling year for women. But, away from the headlines, a cold look at the data shows equality is generations away
Founded five years ago by collector Dean Valentine and dealers Al and Mills Morán, Felix L.A. has gained a reputation for being a more relaxed and intimate fair than Frieze L.A., which runs at the same time.
A long-awaited retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum celebrates the photographer’s work while avoiding the self-congratulatory drama of a rescue mission.
From experiential, multi-site projects to performance-based interventions, these works not only challenge expectations of what public art can look like, but also reflect and confront the legacy of historical injustices.
A new show at the Queens gallery Mrs. proves that dogs may be man’s best friends, but cats are humans’ idols.
Disquieting, transgressive and often darkly comic, the New York artist’s photographs urged viewers to see the naked form in a new light
A trailblazing queer photographer who embodied the grit of 1970s and ’80s NYC gets the retrospective he deserves at Brooklyn Museum
Remembering some of the LGBTQ+ people and allies who died earlier this year.
Artists from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Nan Goldin are brought together at the Hamburger Kunsthalle to re-examine the stereotype’s origins and new takes
The veracity of photography as a tool to capture the truth has been questioned, especially given the ease with which images can be digitally manipulated today. However, a new exhibition at the National Gallery Singapore (NGS) points out that even in the 19th century, the truth could be altered – by simply curating the images the photographer chose to show.
Marci Kwon and Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander speak about their boundary-pushing work in exhibitions and scholarship as co-directors of the Asian American Art Initiative
The Independent art fair has announced the exhibitors for its forthcoming edition in New York, which will run from May 11 to 14 at Tribeca’s Spring Studios.
Across six decades’ worth of performance, film, photography, drawing, sculpture, installation, artist’s books––and, yes, some painting––she always maintained that the eye and hand of Schneemann the painter could be discerned: in her work’s intimate tactility, in its attentive treatment of color and form, and often also in the literal presence of paints or painterly apparatus.
From Jimmy DeSana’s radical nudes to the unsung women of Atlanta’s hip hop scene, we round up the best art and photography exhibitions to catch this month
The artist has work at Art Basel Miami Beach with P·P·O·W gallery and the nonprofit Art in Common.
Where life wounds, art and fellowship can heal, or at the very least, cauterize into the most expressive of scars.
DeSana's work refuses to present coherent identities even as it pictures aspects of sexuality that remain culturally repressed, rejecting photography’s claim to truth as a tool of social control. Instead, through technical manipulation and distortion, DeSana prompts us to take a closer look at ourselves.
In a bucolic corner of Connecticut, a collecting couple combines two midcentury-modern homes as a retreat for adventurous art and visiting artists
ABMB is in a league all its own. To mark its second decade, the fair has pulled together its youngest and most sweeping program to date.
The art fair, now celebrating its 20th anniversary, features thoughtful work but shies away from taking chances.
Visitors will find a rich variety of works at museums, satellite fairs and art spaces.
To talk about David Wojnarowicz is to talk about images that communicate the unsayable with words: a place of loss and danger, of what is to be a homosexual man in a homophobic world.
Jimmy DeSana: Submission at Brooklyn Museum celebrates an irreverent LGBTQ artist’s career.
Highlights include Jimmy DeSana’s photographs of 1970s downtown New York, Hedda Sterne’s intricate drawings from the 1960s, and new immersive work by David Hockney
While Miami truly has something for everyone, this curated selection of fair highlights will help guide your week, complete with booth locations for each exhibitor mentioned below.
Fair will exhibit works by Jimmy DeSana and Barbara Ess, largely forgotten artists who were contemporaries of Robert Mapplethorpe
The artist Carlos Motta and the writer Rabih Alameddine on recovering the real (and imagined) stories of the demonized.
Contemporary society in the United States normalizes the idea of the exhausted mother, so why wouldn’t mother nature be equally exhausted?
How do we look at nature in the present apocalyptic times of an accelerated ecocide? The most recent exhibition opened at P.P.O.W. gallery in New York city, I’m Not Your Mother, delves into the nature-culture inquiries, from an ecofeminist perspective
La Comunidad de Madrid presenta la primera exposición monográfica en Europa dedicada al artista estadounidense de origen chino Martin Wong.
Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities portrays how Artists Call swiftly created a transnational network working toward a single purpose.
This must have something to do with how much of herself Schneemann seems to put into her work. Across film, performance, painting and installation, she promises access to her domestic life, her relationships, her body.
On November 12, New York gallery P.P.O.W announced the launch of the Martin Wong Catalogue Raisonné (MWCR)
Want to see new art in New York this weekend? Start in Chelsea with Sonia Gomes’s fabric-heavy solo show and Ursula von Rydingsvard’s wood sculptures. Then head to TriBeCa for a group show on landscape painting and June Leaf’s memorable new show.
The Artsy Vanguard, now in its fifth edition, is our annual feature spotlighting the most promising artists working today.
Simmons has been in charge of the estate of her close friend and former roommate for more than 30 years.
As the late artist’s work – which mixed queer aesthetics and sexual liberation in the 1970s and 1980s – is celebrated in a retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum, artist Laurie Simmons and curator Drew Sawyer speak on his legacy
The colorful legacy of Downtown dynamo Jimmy DeSana comes to light in the new Brooklyn Museum exhibition.
El Museo CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo de Móstoles acoge hasta el 29 de enero del próximo año la primera exposición monográfica en Europa dedicada al artista estadounidense de origen chino Martin Wong, figura clave de la contracultura norteamericana, antes de que la muestra viaje a Londres, Berlín y Ámsterdam.
Inspired by water and witchery, Art in Common's first show will feature works by artists such as Marina Abramović and Guadalupe Maravilla.
The photographer moved effortlessly between scenes: No Wave music, performance, queer subcultures, downtown nightlife, the Pictures Generation and mail art.
Locke’s stunning, sensuous spectacle of pattern and color, just like the grand tradition of Caribbean carnivals, hints at sinister elements that undergird the whole endeavor.
A novelistic letter on David Wojnarowicz's Sex Series, Joni, Geena, Susan, Lana, and other Californians by design.
On her handloomed tapestries, the Brooklyn-based artist weaves narratives exploring life’s joy and pain
From awe-inspiring exhibitions on Jimmy DeSana and Steven Meisel to exciting new restaurants and gripping new plays, here’s our round-up of the very best of November’s cultural offerings
The prophetic new media artist speaks with Las Bang Larsen about her practice and collaboration with CERN
In print for the first time are inspired scenes of bondage, discipline, dominance, and subjection from Jimmy DeSana’s 1978 series “The Dungeon.”
In a rickety wood-frame building near Eureka, California, along a slough that leads to Humboldt Bay, there is a self-portrait by Martin Wong. He left it unfinished—a quick acrylic underpainting in shades of blue.
Over the years, the balance between feminist and ecological concerns has fluctuated in the work. Yet this triumphant show set her preoccupations with gender and commodification on equal footing.
As a result of decades of conversation and scholarship, a wave of new public sculptures reflect and honor Black Britons.
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month, including the Latin American Art Triennial, Baldwin Lee, Triton Mobley, and more.
They’re using the past to re-invent and question the future, carefully investigating the fragility of the latent dreams that mark our time.
The monumental event included groundbreaking exhibits, city-wide installations, and glamorous gatherings of celebrities and art-world insiders
This exhibition was selected as part of London Oomph, a roundup of the best shows in town during October 2022.
Few artists have had as radical an impact on feminist thought and art than multimedia and performance artist Carolee Schneemann.
His piece is deliberately ambiguous, leaving it open to many different interpretations, all of them intriguing. The overall effect is spectacular.
The thematic show at Unit London coincides with Frieze week.
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.
A handy guide to the best gallery shows in town. Pioneering feminist artist Carolee Schneemann forged a career that was grounded in painting but extended into experimental performances, assemblage works, and films. Regarded as a precursor to her later paintings, these works are early examples of her lifelong exploration of the social construction of the female body and its politics.
Our top picks around town. With no shortage of world class museums, London usually boasts a good roster of unmissable exhibitions.
Mindscape initiative is a programme of residencies and exhibitions in museums across the world that explore psychological wellbeing post-pandemic
Our selection also includes portrait pairings by Alice Neel and a gallery complement to Carolee Schneemann's Barbican survey.
All visitors to Frieze in London have to do to find alternative attractions is step off the fair grounds in Regent’s Park. Here is a selection of exhibitions taking place during Frieze week.
Srijon Chowdhury’s debut solo museum exhibition metes out dizzying variations in style, genre, and scale. Yet his work’s coherence around the themes of life, death, and myth anchors the viewer.
When Portland painter Srijon Chowdhury was invited to present a solo exhibition at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, he asked himself, “what’s the best kind of museum show an artist could have?” His answer: “a retrospective.”
So much humility is rare: the Dutch-American artist Anton van Dalen sees himself as an unofficial servant of the community.
This collection gathers six decades of work from the late experimental artist, including paintings, multimedia installations and films, to shed new light on Schneemann’s ideas about the body, war and more.
But the tides are turning thanks to her current landmark show at the Barbican Centre, Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics, her first retrospective in the United Kingdom and the first major presentation of her work since her death in 2019. Providing a long-awaited look into the full span of her prolific six-decade-long practice, it showcases her most iconic performances alongside lesser-known chapters of her revolutionary career.
The eleven paintings and single sculpture in Astrid Terrazas’s first solo show at P·P·O·W encompass far-reaching spatial and temporal terrain through powerful, graphic figuration. This is painting as storytelling, rebuilt from the grand traditions of muralism, retablos, and, it seems to me, Francisco de Goya via Paula Rego.
“Artists on Our Radar” is a monthly series produced by the Artsy team. Utilizing our art expertise and access to Artsy data, we highlight five artists who have our attention. To make our selections, we’ve determined which artists made an impact this past month through new gallery representation, exhibitions, auctions, art fairs, or fresh works on Artsy.
A selection of recent work by Brooklyn-based artist Hilary Harkness.
From Deana Lawson's depictions of urban life to intricate sculptures by Henry Taylor, there's a plethora of work from Black artists to see this season
Keith-Roach’s vessels often seem to tell the story of their own becoming, with surrealistically disembodied hands applying light touches to the surface.
Out front, “Gilt,” four sculptures by Hew Locke commissioned for The Met’s historic facade, is on display.
Haunting and rife with a macabre sense of foreboding, the mesmerizing stop-motion clay animations of Allison Schulnik are simultaneously brimming with compassion, humor, and hope.
For a hit of culture, head to these fabulous exhibitions across the capital
The Wexner Center for the Arts will showcase the works of interdisciplinary artist Carlos Motta and photographer Carol Newhouse through Dec. 30, emphasizing the themes of change, collaboration and activism.
Over the past decade, thanks to its unique architecture and comparatively low real estate prices, Tribeca has become a leading area for emerging and established galleries to plant their roots.
Returning to New York on Air Fair Weekend, I missed Independent, the Armory and Spring Break while nursing an airplane cold (luckily, not covid). However, as I recuperated, I visited several local downtown galleries, abounding with great autumnal energy.
In this breathtaking exhibition, Thomas’s alchemical, history-laden work stands, in part, as a metaphor for trans embodiment and personal reconfiguration.
From South Korean pop ephemera to Marina Abramović's transitional states of being
With galleries moving in in droves, Tribeca is supplanting Chelsea as the city’s art neighbourhood, but its success may push out the small and mid-size galleries that fostered its vitality
Eros Rising at New York’s Institute for Studies on Latin American Art demonstrates that eroticism might be closer to the cosmic than to the terrestrial in its infinite manifestations.
Ahead of its opening next April, the 2023 Gwangju Biennale has named the initial 58 artists (of an estimated 80 total) that are set to exhibit their work as part of the exhibition, which is organized by Tate Modern senior curator Sook-Kyung Lee under the title of “soft and weak like water.”
A new London exhibition showcases work by artists that explore sex, beauty, politics, and more – despite the fact they’ve previously been censored
The Guyanese-British artist’s commission for the museum was created in a tense dialogue with collection objects that are connected to conquest.
The commission's title, Gilt, puns on the motivation for art world scrambling to account for centuries of pillaging.
The suite of sculptures is inspired by works in the museum’s collection with convoluted histories
When you think about art made during the early years of the AIDS epidemic, David Wojnarowicz’s work—along with that of Félix González-Torres, Keith Haring, and Darrel Ellis—springs to mind.
Over the entrance to the Met are medallion portraits of white, male art heroes. Enter Hew Locke with a timely and pointed message about “Gilt” (or “Guilt”).
One of her greatest, most enduring skills was the ability to take the female body, as pure flesh, and to transform it into something powerful and illuminating rather than demeaning or depressing
The British-Guyanese artist is the third sculptor to take on the Met's Facade Commission.
Plus, PPOW is collecting goods for migrants in New York, and Dia Art Foundation staffers vote to form a union.
In the face of a humanitarian crisis caused by governor Abbott busing migrants to sanctuary cities, artists Guadalupe Maravilla and Mariana Parisca and P·P·O·W gallery are gathering supplies and donations
On the occasion of Carolee Schneemann’s survey at the Barbican Art Gallery, Cathy Wade looks back at the artist’s 1973 kinetic painting ‘Up to and Including Her Limits’
Body Politics, a comprehensive retrospective of Carolee Schneemann’s work, gives an intense account of the versatile American artist’s vision and art
For before Feminism was even a thing, she was breaking artistic and social boundaries.
Artists who have faced censorship are taking center stage at Unit London.
Unit London is currently displaying Sensitive Content, a group exhibition linking social media censorship to the history of artistic censorship.
Artists who have faced censorship are taking center stage at Unit London. “Sensitive Content,” curated by artist Helen Beard and art historians Alayo Akinkugbe and Maria Elena Buszek, presents artworks that have challenged the status quo by raising questions on artistic freedom and foregrounding issues linked to the circulation and suppression of art.
What most stands out for me about 52 Artists at the Aldrich Contemporary is the sense of both engaging with and resisting categories.
Organized by Lucy Lippard, “Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists” presented the work of women who had not previously had solo shows. This revival presentation, organized by the museum’s chief curator, Amy Smith-Stewart, and independent curator Alexandra Schwartz, expands Lippard’s roster—of mostly white, all cis-female artists—with a more diverse list of 26 additional female-identifying and nonbinary artists born in or after 1980.
Guadalupe Maravilla’s New York museum show resolutely harnesses the otherness of illness, while never surrendering to the notion of suffering as a totalizing narrative.
Body Politics is much more than an overdue retrospective and is a must-see not just for existing fans of Carolee Schneemann. With a career spanning six decades, Schneemann has been a major influence on generations of artists, making a lasting mark in particular with ground-breaking performances that ensured her position within the feminist art canon.
The closing nights of the New York art world’s busy back-to-school week took revelers from Lower Manhattan to the outer edge of Queens
As a new retrospective opens at the Barbican in London, four artists, writers and editors speak on Carolee Schneemann’s playful, pioneering artistic legacy
Schneemann’s personal life is almost as freely displayed as her genitals in a six-decade retrospective of her fiercely divisive work. Elsewhere, Coates channels the voices inside other people’s heads
With a humanitarian crisis unfolding in New York City, P·P·O·W and Guadalupe Maravilla are gathering necessary supplies to help asylum seekers with basic urgent needs and family reuinification.
A career retrospective becomes a cathedral of the mundane.
Featuring more than 180 works by iconic artists, the exhibition is the last project conceived and curated by the late art historian, curator, and critic Germano Celant.
For Carolee Schneemann, the process of creating art was just as important as the finished product, a notion that connects over 50 years of the artist’s work captured in the new Barbican retrospective Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics, running until January 2023.
This week, as The Armory Show once again whirs to life, roving crowds of collectors will descend upon the Javits Center.
Highlights include grand retrospectives of Alex Katz and Wolfgang Tillmans, a titanic assembly of van Gogh and a celebration of the pioneering Just Above Midtown gallery.
Schneemann was inspirational, confrontational and joyously excessive, pulling art from her vagina and writhing naked through molasses and wallpaper paste. This thrilling show captures the sheer scope of a phenomenal artist
The Barbican Art Gallery is staging a survey of the late pioneering performance artist, including more than 300 works ranging from early paintings and sculptural assemblages to films and installations
The gallery is nearly doubling its footprint with a new space next to its Tribeca home.
Artist, feminist, environmentalist—these themes elegantly converge in her exhibition “Bound Angel” which examines, with perverse pleasure, the darker cultural implications of mass production, the fight for gender equality, and the mounting ecological crisis.
She staged an event even Duchamp said was messy, filmed herself having sex, unrolled a script from her vagina – and took art away from canvas and into the stuff of life itself
We surveyed museums from New York to Detroit to Los Angeles to get a sense of where equity initiatives stand.
Themed exhibitions exploring the Great Migration and showcasing works by young fashion photographers and metal workers in Memphis are amond the noteworthy shows featuring Black artists that opened in museums this spring and summer.
How to define sculpture in 2022? This issue of Art in America offers considerable insight in answering that question, beginning with thoughts from curators we asked to weigh in.
On the occasion of Carolee Schneemann’s survey at the Barbican Art Gallery, Cathy Wade looks back at the artist’s 1973 kinetic painting ‘Up to and Including Her Limits’
The Colene Brown Art Prize awards ten New York-based visual artists with $10,000 unrestricted grants. The Prize is underwritten by artist and former BRIC Board Member Deborah Brown and her sister Ellen Brown in memory of their late mother, Colene Brown, and is funded through the Harold and Colene Brown Family Foundation.
Looking for a stupendous list of things to do in the City of London in September? You’ve come to the right place.
From knockout shows and exhibitions to entire festivals celebrating the unrelenting influence of waterways on the growth of the capital, we’ve got a little something for everyone.
As a general rule, great or interesting art and exhibitions are not found in summer resorts, the art buying and appreciating public being transient, the season short, and the major galleries in urban art centers (New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Hong Kong) being proprietary about their artists and their collectors. However, that may be changing as what were once one season destinations are becoming year-round bases for work-from-home.
More than two years after the start of the coronavirus shutdowns, the Bay Area’s visual art scene has not only rebounded from pandemic delays, but also has pushed forward with exciting new developments.
150 artists submitted their worst reviews for reprint, compiling a broad survey of severe art criticism—its shifting form, nature, and impact—by those directly subjected to it.
Galleries and artists are Increasingly finding themselves at the centre of heavy-handed suppression on the social media platform
The factual and fantastical collide, as a Black woman wearing an ebony helmet mask turns her head to gaze at the viewer even as she strides to our left.
How did one show in 1896 give birth to America’s oldest exhibition of global contemporary art – and what does the Carnegie International mean for the city of Pittsburgh today?
With a major new exhibition and a hit TV show celebrating our love of fixing objects, Rosalind Jana reflects on the healing power of repair
The exhibition of the year is here, plus we have South Korean pop culture, a Sudanese women’s champion, decoded Egyptian hieroglyphs, Zaha Hadid’s ‘yonic stadium’ and a rare showing for the ‘American Turner’
The Portland gallery and the institute at Maine College of Art & Design are respectively celebrating 20 and 25 years since opening.
Despite the blood and violence, the highs and lows of the Viennese Actionist’s infamous The Six Day Play were surprisingly heartfelt. Trigger warnings of violent imagery to follow.
Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics is also the first major exhibition since the progressive artist’s death.
The Czechoslovak New Wave film “Daisies” features an insolent pair of young girls determined to be as “spoiled” as the world.
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.
P·P·O·W is pleased to host a conversation between artist Portia Munson and Art Omi’s chief curator Sara O’Keeffe in conjunction with Munson’s current solo exhibitions Bound Angel at P·P·O·W and Flood at Art Omi. For over three decades, Munson has created maximal installations, sculptures, paintings, and digital prints using a vast accumulation of ready-made consumer products to decipher the latent cultural codes embedded in mass-produced items. This conversation will explore Munson’s visual examination of the impact of mass production on the formation of identity and its connections to the ongoing struggle for gender equality and the mounting ecological crisis.
Let’s be honest: On a best bathrooms list, no one wants to be number two.
To celebrate the Barbican’s upcoming exhibition and film screenings, we take a look at some of the artist’s most shocking and haunting work
Artist Portia Munson's recent solo show at PPOW Gallery takes on feminist aesthetics and if we have ultimately missed something.
From Catherine Opie’s explorations of contemporary life to a group exhibition on the theme of play, we round up the exhibitions you need to see this month
For decades now, the members of the LGBTQIA communities have been demanding equal rights for all, and for a time, it looked like the battle was going in their favor. However, everything they have won this year stands on a precipice as the lawmakers have proposed more than 230 bills that would limit the rights of LGBTQIA Americans.
In the Hayward Gallery exhibition “In the Black Fantastic,” Nick Cave’s powerful, newly commissioned installation takes center stage. The piece, entitled Chain Reaction, features hundreds of black cast-plaster arms—shaped from the artist’s own—joined together like chains. The hands grip each other as though trying to lift one another up. The installation touches on one of the show’s major themes: the legacy of slavery and colonialism.
The curator of “In the Black Fantastic” at London’s Hayward Gallery describes it as a “feel-good show about death,” which also looks beyond Afrofuturism.
Want to see new art in New York this weekend? Start in NoHo to see Ever Baldwin’s wry, visionary paintings at Marinaro. Then head to the Lower East Side for “Painting as Is II” at Nathalie Karg, “one of the best summer group shows in town.” And don’t miss Portia Munson’s “Bound Angel” at PPOW Gallery in TriBeCa.
Maravilla turned to Tripa Chuca as a way to meet others during his migration to the U.S.
From triennials and theatre openings to spellbinding photo shows and sumptuous new food offerings, here’s our round-up of the very best things August has to offer
PPOW Gallery and the David Wojnarowicz Foundation launched an interactive project dedicated to the artist’s iconic photo-text collage.
A spectacular show of art and documentation at the Jewish Museum captures New York in 1962-64, an era of near-weekly advances in all of the arts.
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month, including feminist surrealism, underground legends, and contemporary perspectives on print media.
For her new show at P.P.O.W., Munson continues exploring issues of the commodification of femininity and consumerism’s role in our mounting ecological crisis with an all-white table piece, Bound Angel.
From the moment of its inception, the genre has been concerned with the promise and peril of breaking from modernity
The Commonwealth Games has kickstarted an explosion of culture in England’s second city, with loads to look at and listen to, as well as eat and drink
In the Black Fantastic is a magical, fantastical exhibition featuring 11 contemporary artists from the African diaspora; Nick Cave, Sedrick Chisom, Ellen Gallagher, Hew Locke, Wangechi Mutu, Rashaad Newsome, Chris Ofili, Tabita Rezaire, Cauleen Smith, Lina Iris Viktor and Kara Walker.
With 200 works by 71 female artists, a new exhibition of pioneering photography was ‘too quiet and poetic’ to be properly appreciated in the 1970s
A double-exhibition at P·P·O·W Gallery offers a great solo exhibition and access to a space the public has never before entered.
Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events, both digitally and in-person in the New York area. See our picks from around the world below. (Times are all ET unless otherwise noted.)
The filmmaker behind Wojnarowicz: F*ck You F*ggot F*cker discusses why the late artist’s politically confrontational work is more relevant than ever.
The pioneering American artist left behind a legacy of art as a form of gay rights activism; today, with regressive reproductive laws and the Monkeypox vaccine crisis affecting the queer community, his work proves its timelessness
P·P·O·W is proud to introduce The David Wojnarowicz Foundation. In the 30 years since his life was cut short, the voice of David Wojnarowicz has continued to resonate in museums, galleries, classrooms, protests, and visual celebrations of beauty and defiance and love. The Foundation's work begins with the launch of a dynamic website celebrating David's work and legacy. We welcome you in exploring this growing resource and beginning a relationship with the Foundation and its mission in the years to come.
Artists in the early 1960s drew from a heady mix: Mad magazine and Marilyn; the civil rights movement and the death of a president; queer bodies and “Pieta.” It’s all at the Jewish Museum.
Saturated with objects but also different colors and emotions, the installations by American artist Portia Munson reflect her interest in systems and structured formations. For several decades already, she has been combining sculpture, installation, painting, and digital photography, to explore consumerism from the feminist and environmentalist lens.
New York's summer art scene is heating up.
P·P·O·W is pleased to announce the opening of an additional gallery in Tribeca, on the second floor of 390 Broadway, adjacent to its primary gallery.
An HIV-positive gay man who performed as Patina du Prey, Hunter Reynolds was a member of ACT UP. Here’s his latest art book.
A take-a-seat start to the week, courtesy of British artist Clementine Keith Roach and one of her latest works, titled Nuptials.
The artist, who has wrapped a statue of Victoria in a wooden ship in Birmingham, prefers a retain and explain approach
While the early morning of this un-historic summer day was filled with white fog, the afternoon is embracing the lushness of the green, flickering countryside, the grey rural roads, and me, a slow country road driver on my way to Portia Munson’s studio, in the magic of the golden light.
Guyanese British artist Hew Locke is at a pivotal moment in his thirty-plus year career as a fine artist.
It’s difficult to truly understand where ideas originate. Even well-documented moments in history like the invention of the telephone or the light bulb get rehashed and retold in new and different ways. We are often left wondering what spurred the ideas into reality and what helped to make the different mental connections.
Focused on the years 1962–1964, a program by Film at Lincoln Center pairs with a Jewish Museum exhibition and a survey at Film Forum.
Artist David Wojnarowicz died 30 years ago. A childhood photo of yourself can now be part of his LGBTQ-themed poster “One Day This Kid.”
Laurie Simmons and Drew Sawyer discuss the late artist’s AIDS-era collages in a portfolio for Document’s tenth anniversary
At the beginning of the 1970s, American artists were demanding more equitable representation in institutional shows. Organizations such as the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition and the Ad Hoc Committee of Women Artists staged protests over the Whitney Museum’s omission of Black and women artists in their exhibitions.
Throughout the trendy, catchword-ridden East Village scene of the 1980s, Martin Wong’s work defied categorization. While others painted anxious figures in broad strokes and strident colors, he rendered his meticulous urban landscapes in a muted palette dominated by umbers, blacks, and rusty reds.
The sculptures of Hew Locke turn the symbols of state power – from coats of arms to naval vessels, public statues and royal portraits – into tools for examining the ways in which societies the world over have fashioned their identities, often under the shadow of colonialism.
One night in 1989, Hunter Reynolds, then a 30-year-old artist living in New York City, made himself up at home with the help of a friendly drag queen. He was intrigued with the results: his handsome face embellished and transformed, neither man nor woman, like an androgynous cabaret star in Berlin during the Weimar years. He tossed on a tweed coat and headed out to various art-world events. Friends didn’t recognize him, so he pretended to be a performance artist visiting from Los Angeles.
Filled with enigmatic figures and abstract pools of jewel tones, the rising star's paintings are coveted by collectors everywhere
NEW YORK, NY.- P·P·O·W is presenting Made to Be Broken, a site-specific exhibition curated by artist Corey Durbin. Installed underneath P·P·O·W, Made to Be Broken features new works by Daniel Barragán, Caroline Boreri, Corey Durbin, Yves B Golden, Carly Mandel, Hayley Cranberry Small, and Cameron Spratley.
Our ‘At home with’ interview series explores what creatives are making, what’s making them tick, and the moments that made them. This time, we step over the threshold with Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke
The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh has announced the full list of participating artists for the 58th Carnegie International exhibition, which opens in Pittsburgh on 24 September.
P.P.O.W. is opening up their unfinished basement this weekend for a group show curated by Corey Durbin …
The Carnegie International in Pittsburgh, the oldest biennial-style show in the U.S., has revealed the artist list for its 2022 edition, which is due to kick off at the Carnegie Museum of Art on September 24.
Organizers of the Carnegie International today released the names of the artists who will be participating in the event’s fifty-eighth edition, to take place from September 24, 2022 to April 2, 2023, across various venues in Pittsburgh. Curated by Sohrab Mohebbi, the exhibition is titled “Is It Morning for You Yet?”
The 58th edition will feature 150 artists, creative collectives, and institutional collections.
Noting the ‘documentary form’ as of relevance to the historicisation of the LGBTQ+ movement, these artists bring the image towards the evidentiary.
Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events, both digitally and in-person in the New York area. See our picks from around the world below.
Inside the Benenson Center’s Newmark Gallery, a 15-foot-wide blue backyard swimming pool is filled, not with water, but with thousands of found plastic artifacts, organized by graduated shades of blue. The centerpiece of “Flood,” a new exhibit by artist Portia Munson, “Reflecting Pool” (2013) displays the detritus of the plastic era.
The artist realized what he previously called an “impossible proposal,” building a ship around a public statue of Queen Victoria, where she’s joined by five smaller replicas of herself.
We asked our friend Simon de Pury to give us a lay of the land and to offer a peek into what's on offer.
As the new exhibition WORLDBUILDING: Gaming and Art in the Digital Age opens, curator Hans Ulrich Obrist discusses the growing role of video games in our everyday lives
He has been exploring ships, slavery and statues for decades – and now the world has finally caught up. As Locke unveils the boat he has built in Birmingham, he talks us through his ‘bloody exhausting’ workload
Hunter Reynolds, an artist and activist whose expansive work influenced generations and poignantly reflected on the immense loss wrought by the AIDS crisis and took on that era’s homophobia, died on June 12 at his home in New York’s East Village. He was 62.
The Dow dropped 800 points, the S&P 500 fell into bear market territory, Bitcoin hit an 18-month low, and inflation concerns continued to stoke fears about an oncoming recession, but you wouldn’t have known that financial chaos was raging at Tuesday’s VIP opening of Art Basel in Basel.
Artist couple Clementine Keith-Roach and Christopher Page bring their vision of human interaction to PPOW gallery.
The organizers of the forthcoming ART SG in Singapore announced the more than 150 galleries that will participate in its inaugural edition, scheduled to run January 11–15 at the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre.
NEW YORK, NY.- P·P·O·W and the Hunter Reynolds Estate are deeply saddened to announce that Hunter Reynolds, influential artist, activist, and dear friend, passed away peacefully on June 12, 2022 at his home in the East Village surrounded by loyal friends. He was 62 years old.
Art Basel returns to Switzerland in full swing, held at Messe Basel from June 16—19 with support from UBS. Exhibited across platforms like Galleries, Features, Statements, and Editions, the fair’s 289 presenting galleries are bringing a range of works by contemporary creators and rare and historical marvels. The fair also encompasses a series of large-scale works in the Unlimited sector, site-specific projects in Parcours, and a program encompassing talks, films, and other special happenings.
Our picks of the must-see seasonal outdoor and indoor exhibitions, from Wangechi Mutu and Brandon Ndife at the Storm King Art Center to Frank Stella at The Ranch
Today, Martin Wong (1946–1999) is undoubtedly best known as an unwavering chronicler of a bygone era in New York’s Loisaida neighborhood, his meticulous renderings of the material world’s seemingly inconsequential details, like brick walls or chain-wire fencing, and, of course, his adaptation of the fingerspelling gestures used in American Sign Language.
Sprüth Magers to open in New York; Art Basel galleries put spotlight on refugees; offer for MCH spin-off; Miami museum buys Nam June Paik work
Upon seeing Dinh Q. Lê’s work, one’s instinctive reaction is often to move closer. Lê’s meticulous photo-weaving process, inspired by Vietnamese grass mat weaving, creates intricate collages of found images that tie identities, histories, and memories engrossed in conflict and displacement.
It’s not new for an artwork to state its queer allusions so clearly. But as collectors of LGBTQIA+ art are becoming more numerous, and (in the West in particular) queer artists are becoming more visible in museum shows, galleries are an important part of the puzzle in supporting these artists. How are dealers working to represent the varied practices of LGBTQ artists today?
“52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone” revisits the practices and artists of the Ridgefield, Connecticut museum's seminal 1971 feminist art show, Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists," and brings new voices into the conversation.
Female deities, demons, and religious figures have been a source of artistic inspiration for centuries. Yet all too often, their image and stories have fallen victim to a prurient male gaze and patriarchal ideas of womanhood.
Guadalupe Maravilla’s Tierra Blanca Joven at the Brooklyn Museum consists of “Disease Throwers”—large sculptures that function as healing sound baths, a curation of Mayan artifacts from the museum’s collection, video performance, and a community healing room.
Four legs in a garden—Glaessner’s first exhibition in a French institutional context—is hung luxuriously under Le Consortium’s vast 12-meter ceiling in their monumental White Box gallery. The show’s general similarity benefits from this grandeur and includes three new works of paths and party scenes that were created specifically for the exhibition site. Though some of the canvases are small, they all uses the electric hues of a Fauvist palette.
Depictions of the British sovereign, one of the most painted women in history, reflect the changing status of the monarchy over more than half a century
Few artists have had as much of an impact on representational painting as Judith Linhares. For the years between MarciaTucker’s “Bad” Painting (1978) at the New Museum and Linhares’s inclusion in Frieze by Anglim Gilbert Gallery in 2018, she was a painter well-known by other figurative painters and the generations of students she taught at the School of Visual Arts, but her gallery representation didn’t properly reflect her influence.
These university museum leaders are bridging cultural chasms through elaborate and generative work with their students.
52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone celebrates the fifty-first anniversary of the historic exhibition Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists, curated by Lucy R. Lippard and presented at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Conn., in 1971. Opening on June 6, 2022, 52 Artists will showcase work by the artists included in the original 1971 exhibition, alongside a new roster of twenty-six female identifying or nonbinary emerging artists, tracking the evolution of feminist art practices over the past five decades.
The Columbus Museum of Art hosted an Artist Talk with New York-based artist and Columbus-native Robin F. Williams whose work Final Girl Exodus is featured in the exhibition Present Generations: Creating the Scantland Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art.
Want to see new art in New York this weekend? Start on the Upper East Side with Evelyn Statsinger’s enthralling paintings at Gray New York. Then head to Chelsea for a rare chance to see Michaël Borremans’s work at David Zwirner.- And don’t miss Tommy Malekoff’s indelible video images shot in the Everglades.
“Basquiat is not just an artist; for a lot of the people out there, he’s a religion,” one dealer said. But Wednesday there were plenty of newcomers to watch.
In the past few years, Tribeca has seen a resurgence as New York galleries depart districts like Chelsea and the Lower East Side for new digs, making this neighborhood one of the go-to spots for art in the city. A heady brew of art enterprises has formed as a result: relatively young art spaces now exist side-by-side with Tribeca veterans like Postmasters Gallery and apexart, and edgy shows by artists on the rise can be found just blocks from ones by more established talent.
One couple is helping Atlanta’s High Museum of Art to fill gaps and correct biases in its collection.
From Genesis P-Orridge at Pioneer Works to Louise Bourgeois at the Met, our pick of the best exhibitions in the city this week
Women inhabit their bodies on their own terms in Judith Linhares’s paintings, rendered in the color-loaded, wet-into-wet strokes of the artist’s signature wide brush.
Last year, the Ford Foundation and Mellon Foundation, two of the country’s largest philanthropic funders in the arts, joined forces to establish the Latinx Artist Fellowship, which will support the work of 75 Latinx artists at various stages in their careers over a five-year period.
What makes an image queer? What constitutes a queer history? Ryan Patrick Krueger’s debut solo exhibition, “On Longing,” invoked these questions and explored what’s at stake in their answers through five works (all 2022) that contain and reframe vernacular photographs of coupled men between whom some form of affection can be discerned.
Alive with personified creatures and borrowed symbols, Astrid Terrazas’s canvases function like tarot cards, hazy assemblages of meanings that orbit an iconic core.
The artist, who fled the violence of the civil war in El Salvador as a child, incorporates ritual gongs into his sculptures, on view in the show “Tierra Blanca Joven,” at the Brooklyn Museum.
Guadalupe Maravilla's practice and resulting artworks centre mostly on healing as an individual and societal tool to overcome trauma, drawing from his background as a child of war and experiences as a cancer survivor to build spaces focused on communal care and healing across generations.
Fixing a set of emerald-green and darkly mesmerizing eyes on the camera for a 2022 video in this exhibition, Tiamat Legion Medusa, the titular subject of the piece, asserts, “I don’t want to die looking like a human.”
It was terrifying, but there was so much beauty and magic.
That's how the artist Guadalupe Maravilla describes much of his life. And it could also be said for his work — looming sculptures and haunting sound art — exhibitions of which are currently being shown at the Museum of Modern Art and the Brooklyn Museum in New York.
Hew Locke discusses his grand commission for Tate Britain, a poetic work of sculpture examining colonial legacy, global finance and the human bodies at the end of the paper trail
The Salvadoran artist talks to Aruna D’Souza about retracing his childhood migration through Central America and Mexico, collectively healing trauma and performing in the dark
The annual Gallery Weekend Berlin is opening this week at some 50 galleries.
New York Art Week, which runs May 5th through 12th, is the latest evolution in the city’s always mercurial art fair scene. In the past, major fairs have spawned numerous satellite events, and organizations across the city have tried to capitalize on the monied collectors who flock here for the marquee events. New York Art Week is a unique endeavor in that it’s the first attempt to bring together many of these actors under one banner with a focused mission.
P·P·O·W is pleased to announce the representation of Bronx-based artist, educator, writer, intellectual, and community organizer, Shellyne Rodriguez.
In memory of Stephanie, and in honor of Alejandro.
The book Gay Propaganda, edited by Masha Gessen, was published in January of 2014, on the eve of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, and right before the invasion of Crimea. It collects personal accounts of LGBTQ+ life in Russia in response to the laws criminalizing public discussions of homosexuality and banning LGBTQ+ couples from adopting children. Every speech that Putin currently makes justifying the new invasion of Ukraine has railed against "so called gender freedoms," equating basic human dignity to a decadent luxury such as oysters or foie gras.
A new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum showcases the work of multidisciplinary artist Guadalupe Maravilla, the first contemporary Central American artist to have a solo show at the Museum.
The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation embarks on its first book with artists like Claudia Rankine, Mel Chin, Mierle Laderman Ukeles supplying words and curator Anjuli Nanda leading the charge.
Carolee Schneemann created some of the most famous works of performance art of the twentieth century – including the genuinely iconic 'Interior Scroll' - and is long overdue a proper celebration.
In October 1981, the artist David Wojnarowicz, then 27, went to the countryside with his new friend and eventual lover, the photographer Peter Hujar. While there, he caught a snake. This fact is perfectly mundane, but it is rendered breathtaking at PPOW Gallery where you can read about the trip in Wojnarowicz’s handwritten postcard to his then-lover Jean-Pierre Delage and then look up from the glass case where the postcard lies to see a Hujar photo of the event: Wojnarowicz, shirtless in black and white, staring straight into the lens, exposing his two big front teeth in a smile while the snake hangs from his hand like an upside-down “J.”
El artista salvadoreño Guadalupe Maravilla ha convertido dos salas del museo Henie Onstad de Oslo en un manifiesto a favor de los poderes curativos del arte. Sound Botánica, su primera gran exposición individual en Europa, explora cómo la pintura o la instalación pueden enfrentarse a la enfermedad y el trauma, al tiempo que revisten el centro expositivo de un aura espiritual.
I tend to treat painting as a personal folktale journal, and that helps keep me interested. I like to story tell what’s happening in my life in a non-direct way–casting a light haze on the actual happenings of my life and community within invented or fantastical worlds. The intent is to create different stages of consciousness, a dreamlike fluidity that connects past and present. Similar to a dream, the meaning is understood only if looked at peripherally.
In his work, Danh Vo proposes that you don’t necessarily have to have made an object in order to call it your own. The very typewriter that the Unabomber used to pen his manifestos was included in his 2018 Guggenheim Museum retrospective, as was a chair used by a member of the Kennedy administration. Neither of these objects would have been out of place in a history museum. In Vo’s hands, however, they become art.
Over 40 donors supported the climate action led by Galleries Commit and Art to Acres, which will see nearly 200,000 acres preserved
Paintings that radiate outward.
The fair’s ninth chapter comes after a two-year hiatus and boasts an ambitious programming throughout the city
The artist's new Tate Britain Commission is a blazingly ambitious cavalcade of humanity, melding past and present, joy and pain
Guyanese-British artist will create four sculptures that draw on the New York museum's collection
If there was one phrase uttered more than any other at Thursday’s opening of EXPO Chicago, it was “great energy.” The art, the booths, and most of all the fair itself were suffused with it, according to both gallerists and visitors. That attitude might not be surprising considering this is the first time the event has returned to the city’s Navy Pier since fall 2019—both 2020 and 2021 in-person events were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Apparition and otherworldliness manifest in subtle ways across many pieces of the exhibition—though Chowdhury’s human subjects appear distracted or removed from this influence.
One of the artists, Tiamat Legion Medusa, is transforming into a dragon.
The Guyanese-British artist will create four sculptures shaped into whole and fragmented trophies that reference historical works in the museum’s collection.
Guadalupe Maravilla’s sculptures at the Brooklyn Museum and MoMA explore the trauma caused by war, migration and family separation.
Plus, a new show at PPOW explores David Wojnarowicz’s first love, and Philadelphia Museum of Art workers stage a rally.
In the new issue of Elephant, writer Precious Adesina meets the British artist Hew Locke, whose work has long challenged viewers to look and think again about the world that surrounds them.
A show at PPOW gallery explores the artist and author’s first significant relationship, with Jean Pierre Delage, which liberated him emotionally and changed him artistically.
Hew Locke’s new installation at Tate Britain shows 150 full-sized figures on a journey through history
A new exhibition at New York’s PPOW Gallery displays David Wojnarowicz’s letters to his former lover Jean Pierre – here, his biographer Cynthia Carr talks about his tender, furious artistic legacy
A new large-scale installation by Hew Locke, "The Procession" features nearly 150 life-sized figures outfitted in hand-made garments and masks.
In a major new commission for the Tate museum group in London, the British-Guyanese artist returns to the themes of empire and postcolonial reckoning that have fascinated him throughout his career.
David Wojnarowicz’s final home was on the corner of Second Avenue and Twelfth Street on the Lower East Side. He moved in after the prior tenant, his mentor and former lover Peter Hujar, died of AIDS. A few months later, in 1988, David was diagnosed with AIDS himself; he’d die in the Second Avenue apartment four years later at the age of thirty-seven.
The Procession, installed in the Duveen Galleries, references the museum's historic links to the sugar industry and slavery
Plus, solo shows for Stan Squirewell, Rebecca Ward, Madjeen Isaac, and more.
Ambitious, accomplished and fascinating, this incredible piece features 150 figures in masks and hand-sewn costumes journeying through Tate Britain
New work evokes ideas of pilgrimage, migration, trade, carnival, protest and social celebrations
There’s a post-colonial, anti-capitalist carnival happening at Tate Britain. And if that doesn’t sound like much fun, that’s because it isn’t. It’s serious.
Locke’s new work The Procession is a coming together of ideas he’s been exploring for nearly 30 years - and now people are talking about them
Tate Britain today unveiled The Procession, a major new installation by artist Hew Locke, the latest in the gallery’s ongoing series of annual commissions. Locke has taken over Tate Britain’s monumental Duveen Galleries with almost 150 life-sized figures – staging a powerful, unsettling and fantastical procession. Intricately hand-made, and bold in its use of colour, this extraordinary installation assembles a myriad of images and materials. It is Locke’s most ambitious project to date, bringing together themes he has explored throughout his career.
Brooklyn-based tapestry artist Erin M. Riley has been weaving pieces that speak on issues faced by women for over ten years. Her work addresses dark themes, raising awareness and promoting recovery for those who have faced issues including violence, self-harm, objectification, or are struggling with their sexuality. Many of her tapestries are based on personal experience, imagery that she has plucked directly from her camera roll, or photos she has come across online.
Curator Michael Rooks advocates for love not war in new exhibition.
The notion of stories, bodies, and selves that change incrementally and radically as they repeat pervades the mesmerizing world of Glaessner’s Phantom Tail.
‘Collectors’ journeys into the homes of fledgling and seasoned art buyers from across the globe. The ongoing series offers an intimate spotlight on a range of personal collections from hobbyist ephemera to blue-chip artworks — all the while dissecting an individual’s specific taste, at-home curation and purchase trajectory.
NB: Can you share the origin of your name, Daze?
Daze: The origin story is funny and typical. It's very important to choose a name that will define you as you continue on; a name that no one else has at the same time.
The air is thick, you’re drifting through a hazy, uncertain world, and visibility is not on your side. Obscure humanlike figures move intentionally slow through abstract pools of color and light. You make out a hand, a fingernail, a toe, but the rest is unclear. Impossibly long limbs wrap you in a warm embrace, and you feel, perhaps for the first time, safe. There are no power structures, no capitalism, no gender, just primitive reflections of emotional states. As you saunter through psychological landscapes, these spirits guide you, divorce you from your mortality, and regenerate you in their making—one free of humanity, of guilt, and most of all, free of pain.
“The feelings that I want to convey … I don’t always have the words to describe,” explains painter Elizabeth Glaessner amidst the large, beautifully painted and somewhat mysterious canvases that make up her solo show at the P·P·O·W gallery in Lower Manhattan.
Plus, check out the latest edition of our Artnet Talks and see works by Brazilian artist Amelia Toledo.
A biographical detail about this Brooklyn-based artist sheds light on both the mythological anatomies and the amniotic quality of her bewitching new paintings: Glaessner was born with a protruding tailbone. In her current show, “Phantom Tail,” supernatural creatures—a deliquescent sphinx, a spidery humanoid in a turquoise pool—occupy worlds that are alternately smoldering and coolly luminescent.
UK-based sculptor Clementine Keith-Roach revisits the world of mythology to give shape to her sculptures as a means to reconstruct the narratives of past, present and future.
As debate over controversial monuments rages on, new project will be part of the Birmingham 2022 Festival culture programme linked to the Commonwealth Games
From a series of mesmerizing paintings by up-and-coming star Elizabeth Glaessner to Peter Moore's fascinating documentation of New York's performance art, these exhibitions are not to be missed
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month, including Kia LaBeija, Tenet, Hassan Sharif, and more.
Martha Wilson – Journals collects the most representative pages of performance artist Martha Wilson’s diaries between 1965 and 1983. In 2018 art dealer and publisher Michèle Didier asked Wilson if she could find in her diaries when she decided to become an artist and begin Franklin Furnace (the artist-run space and archive dedicated to artists’ publishing and performance initiated in New York in 1976).
As the rise of abstraction swept through the Western art world in the early 20th century, so, too, did a turn towards spirituality. Within the context of prevailing art movements, such as Realism and Impressionism, as well as materialistic philosophies and values, artists like Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Kasimir Malevich, and František Kupka yearned for meaning beyond reality, and ushered in the rise of abstraction. These pioneers of abstract art sought inspiration from spiritualism and theosophy, a synthesis of world religions, sciences, philosophy, and color theory. And while these male artists are renowned as the pioneers of abstract art, their female counterparts have, until recently, gone overlooked and underrecognized in the art-historical canon.
Art Basel has announced the 289 galleries that will take part in its upcoming edition in the Swiss city, which is scheduled to run June 16 to June 19, with preview days on June 14 and June 15.
P·P·O·W is pleased to present Elizabeth Glaessner’s third exhibition with the gallery, Phantom Tail. Siphoning inspiration from an evolving pool of art historical, mythological, and cultural references, and inspired by symbolist painters such as Edvard Munch, Glaessner conjures a surreal universe of hypnotic landscapes populated by androgynous doppelgangers, sphinxes, fiends, mirages, and more. Throughout the exhibition, Glaessner’s paintings act as portals, shepherding us into a world unmoored by virtue or vice where all manner of myths coexist without predetermined moral resolution.
Bodies surged toward the front doors of LAGO, whose opening bash had just reached capacity. The crowd pleaded desperately to security guards for entry. Someone began pushing and faces flattened against glass. Everyone was on the list, but no one could get in. The more intrepid guests circled around the back of the pavilion, toward the dark, brackish lake. Security guards rushed to pull us off planters. Through the windows, a golden pendulum by Artur Lescher and a James Turrell window, radiating neon pink, seemed unperturbed by the invading horde—or, for that matter, the steady throb of Tulum house on the dance floor.
These makers are finding beauty and strangeness in the everyday, producing winking renderings of prawns, ashtrays and more.
As their joint show opens in London, American artist Laurie Simmons tells us about the New York studio she shared with the late artist Jimmy DeSana, and why his work “becomes more extraordinary” with time
Guadalupe Maravilla’s “Planeta Abuelx” at Socrates Sculpture Park provided a welcome respite for pandemic times. Offering a space for meditation, healing, and recovery, the project reflected Maravilla’s engagement with mutual aid and therapy, focusing on the ways that art can sustain, restore, and provide solace. A cancer survivor and immigrant who escaped El Salvador’s bloody civil war, Maravilla understands the nature of trauma. These experiences, along with childhood memories, rituals, and traditional medicine, form the basis of his practice and its recuperative and communal purpose.
Participating institutions include the Brooklyn Museum, the Gropius Bau in Berlin, and the Museum of Art and Photography in Bengaluru, India.
Arguably Latin America’s most important art fair, Zona Maco has been on hiatus as the country, and the world, weathered the pandemic, staging its last edition in February 2020. And since the pandemic is still not over, the fair made the necessary adjustments to ensure visitor safety. Aisles between booths were significantly widened, and masks were required—attendees for the most part were good about wearing them. A general sense of weariness toward international travel seemed to dampen attendance at the fair, which felt somewhat lower than years past, despite Zona Maco scheduling its date a week before Frieze Los Angeles. (Their overlap had kept exhibitors and visitors from visiting in the past.)
In conjunction with Chris "Daze" Ellis’ Give It All You Got at the gallery and Pat Phillips’ Consumer Reports at Jeffrey Deitch, New York, P·P·O·W presented a virtual panel discussion between Ellis and Phillips moderated by curator and scholar Rich Blint, who wrote the catalogue essay for Ellis’ exhibition.
Plus, a bodily autonomy workshop at the Queens Museum and the latest show from up-and-coming painter Lucia Love.
His paintings at the contemporary gallery PPOW are a bridge to his train-tagging days and a paean to Bronx street life.
In the summer of 2019, Hew Locke and Indra Khanna, his wife, were my personal guides through the streets of Brixton. As we meandered the labyrinth of market stalls, we discussed a range of topics: migration, diaspora and community, gentrification, navigating the global art market, and the Caribbean. This outing came on the heels of Hew’s exhibition in Birmingham, England, in which such works as The Tourists (2015) and The Nameless (2010) were exhibited. The Tourists—presented as a haunting video installation—was an intervention that took place aboard the battlecruiser HMS Belfast, and that was commissioned by the Imperial War Museum, London.
Perrotin’s current New York group exhibition “Late Night Enterprise” sheds light on the dimmed corners of nighttime social dynamics, from clubs, bedrooms, and shops to computer screens, where the moon’s mauve-colored veil reveals more than it hides. In the featured artists’ works, we see temples of the night that are backdrops for vagabonds to retreat, shelter, and thrive: homes for chosen families to bond; hubs for minds to converse; and nooks for pleasure seekers to play. In addition to portraying club culture as a platform of performativity and reverie, the exhibition steps into moments of nightlife, when time and reason operate on alternative rhythms. The waning of sunlight, as the curatorial premise suggests, exposes possibilities of self-fashioning, introspection, commerce, and pleasure.
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very Los Angeles art events this month, including Ulysses Jenkins, EJ Hill, Carlos Almaraz, and more.
P·P·O·W has big plans for Astrid Terrazas, whose multimedia paintings and illustrated ceramics, will be presented at a solo show and Zsonamaco fair in 2022
She is the director of PPOW, a venerable art gallery in TriBeCa co-founded by her mother in 1983.
Visual art that nobody sees is like a tree falling in a forest that nobody hears. That makes for a great Zen koan. But it doesn’t make an impact. Art’s an experience, not an idea. Sarasota Art Museum’s curators know that – and strive to put art in front of human eyeballs.
On view this month in New York, P·P·O·W has compiled a body of new works by Christopher “Daze” Ellis, the longtime graffiti writer and painter who came up among a new generation of taggers who began their work during the late 1970’s, and who would be among those who earned early recognition by the New York gallery scene during the 1980’s. Combining a selection of significant works from the 1980s and early 1990s with a series of new paintings and sculptures, Give It All You Got chronicles a lifelong dedication to portraying the lifeforce of New York City and commemorating those who were a part of what it once was.
The Independent art fair has announced 66 galleries that will participate in its forthcoming edition in New York, scheduled to take over Lower Manhattan’s Spring Studios May 5–8.
Chris DAZE Ellis' paintings seem to be born out a dream. His trainyards, subways and graffiti history are seeped into each work, but the way he executes it reminds us of how we deal with our own memories. Some works are crystal clear landscapes of a NYC of the past, while some are blurred with very little figurative representation coming from beneath the spray. It's as if DAZE is remembering some parts of his past with an utter clarity, and some of his past life is fading away. The result is a stunning new show, Give It All You Got, on view now at PPOW in NYC.
Four artists featured in a major London exhibition about Britain and the Caribbean reflect on identity, the art world and living through changing times.
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
Guyanese-British sculptor Hew Locke is the latest artist to take on Tate Britain's Duveen Galleries, the huge central aisle of the museum. It's a daunting space, but he's sure to fill it with his signature gold-drenched, super colourful, critical plays on colonial aesthetics.
From live music to glass sculpture, game-changing performances to fitness podcasts… our writers on cultural treats to light up the months ahead
I try to render truths in drawings and carve frames from wood forged from these lands and these properties in Fall River.
Domenick Ammirati on the New Museum’s 2021 Triennial, Greater New York 2021 at MoMA PS1, and Rosemary Mayer at Swiss Institute
These acquisitions may be a good barometer to track the success that Latinx art (used here to describe artists based in the United States, primarily but not limited to those born here or having arrived as children, with a heritage to Latin America and the Caribbean) is currently having within the art world. The fight for recognition has been ongoing since it was initiated in the late 1960s by artists, activists, and curators, and right now presents what some might call a moment for Latinx art.
As 2021 comes to a close, we’re taking the time to look back on the shows in the U.S. and around the world that we feel had the greatest impact. Like the year before, this year was again marked by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. But it had many more bright spots. Thanks to the vaccine, we saw the return of in-person shows, fairs, biennales, and events. Artists took the tumultuous times head-on, continuing to make work, sometimes addressing it directly, sometimes not. Curators took on subjects that ranged from themes like grief, connection, and even clay. There was joy, sadness, a celebration of humanity. Whether looking to the past, present, or future, we found ourselves once again communing with art, artists, and the thing that moves us most of all, beauty.
As the city reopened, the art world saw legacy-changing donations for the Met and the Brooklyn Museum, and a seismic shift in Tribeca’s gallery scene.
From accounts of loss and grief to stories of hope and humour, these are our favourite entries in our regular series of personal encounters with art from 2021
It’s not every day you find yourself standing between two paintings of trolls waving at one another, but that’s exactly what you would have found in Robin F. Williams’s recent show, “Out Lookers,” at P·P·O·W Gallery in New York. Challenging how women are often depicted as scapegoats or untrustworthy figures in popular culture, the artist’s larger-than-life ghosts, witches and supernatural beings bear important messages about social justice, sustainability and issues facing women throughout history. A climate activist and founding member of the environmentalist group Artists Commit, Williams speaks about sustainability in the art industry and the importance of embracing time off.
Documentary filmmaker Chris McKim was looking for something that would make him feel good six months into the Trump Administration and he wanted to make a difference. While he was aware of downtown New York City queer artist and activist David Wojnarowicz, it wasn’t until he started diving into the artist’s work that McKim realized there was an urgent story to be told.
Jessica Stoller redefines feminism in her work, playing on both the grotesque and the surreal within her practice. She uses her ceramic sculpture to explore and subvert idealist forms of beauty. Her work encourages the viewer to question cultural notions surrounding body image, gender, and femininity. Stoller was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1981. She received her BFA at the College for Creative Studies (2004) and her MFA at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan, (2006). Stoller’s work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times and The Guardian, among others. Solo shows have been mounted at P·P·O·W, (New York) and The Clay Studio (Philadelphia). Group exhibitions have been shown at the Foundation Bernardaud (France) and the Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw (Georgia).
Patrick Sun has made it his personal and professional mission to support LGBTQIA+ artists. As the founder of Sunpride Foundation, he’s led the nonprofit’s efforts to create awareness for the LGBTQIA+ community in Asia through art. One of its biggest projects to date was organizing a pair of institutional exhibitions dedicated to queer themes, titled “Spectrosynthesis,” which took place in Taipei and Bangkok in 2017 and 2019, respectively. And since the 1980s, Sun has been building an impressive collection of works by influential LGBTQIA+ artists such as David Wojnarowicz, Shu Lea Cheang, Sunil Gupta, Wu Tsang, Danh Vō, and Samson Young, among many others. Now a member of the M+ Council for New Art, Sun has carved a place for himself as a major patron of LGBTQIA+ art. Here, he shares insights on his approach to collecting.
My paintings are fluid in both material and content. Shifting between water-based pigments and oils, I pour paint onto the surface and work wet-into-wet to create a psychological space where amorphous forms and figures merge with each other and their environment.
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Chris Sharp Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of the Los Angeles and New York-based artist Aaron Gilbert.
After a tumultuous 2020 that involved the beginnings of a pandemic and worldwide upheaval, the art world began to slowly go back to a form of normal in 2021. Along with that shift came a number of developments that brought art-making in new and unexpected developments. There was the rise of a new medium, and there was the return of performance art. There were artworks that spoke to a continued reckoning with systemic racism, and there were powerful pieces that offered forms of healing in a time when illness was prevalent. There was no shortage of creativity on display. The list below, featuring 15 works that defined this year, attests to that.
A day on the beach at Untitled, American Express X Artsy popup show and a benefit auction for Planned Parenthood
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This year’s releases, augmented by movies postponed from last year, offer exceptional artistry amid the industry’s commercial difficulties.
Sex, spirituality, love, and loss – for artist, writer, and activist David Wojnarowicz these were the main subjects of the art he created from the 1970s to the early 1990s when he died of AIDS.
The Brooklyn-based Cuban-American painter talks to us about the spirituality ever-present in his work.
As queer art becomes more mainstream, a group of young talents finds itself at the center of a larger cultural conversation.
Carlos Motta has disguised himself in many ways, including as a naked Christ tied upside down on the cross and as a feral faun in nature.
Though she works with yarn, figurative artist Erin M. Riley tends to use the word painterly to describe her process. Turning to tapestry wasn’t a conceptual decision for her, but one made because she liked how she could use yarn to bring color into her art. Over Zoom from her Brooklyn studio, she says, “It’s like my paint; it’s how I learned to develop my images.”
Antiquity was full of stories that fueled the imagination of artists to the present day. Mythological tales bring classical stories of human courage, a fight for justice, love, cowardice, trickery, and duplicity that are persistent markers of human destiny.
The internet allows us to discover, select and combine the spiritual traditions that suit us best. In a new exhibition, artists are exploring the connections between ancient beliefs and futuristic systems.
This past September, the state of Texas enacted the most restrictive abortion ban currently in effect in the United States. The law, Senate Bill 8, prohibits abortions as early as six weeks into the pregnancy—a time period in which most women are unware they are even pregnant. The state’s sweeping legislation also makes no exceptions for people who are victims of rape or incest. The bill is part of a national agenda to end access to abortion across the U.S., including the landmark case Roe v. Wade, which the Supreme Court could possibly overturn—triggering bans in 26 states to go into effect within months.
Linhares is one of the 13 artists in the Adult Contemporary exhibit Futurephilia, currently on view at Main Street Gallery
Depicted in a moment of calmness, with eyes closed and often in a passion-driven interaction, the subjects become vehicles through which their surroundings earn new, poetic qualities.
Plus, shows from Robin F. Williams, Chris Oh, and more.
Here are the works that caught our eye at the newly-returned and much-loved New York fair.
These nuanced, feverishly intellectual shows will carry you into the enriching fall and winter months.
Presented by the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) benefitting the Henry Street Settlement, the 2021 edition of The Art Show welcomes over 70 galleries, and will dedicate over half of the fair to solo artist exhibitions. The Art Show incorporates a range of in-person and virtual programming, including access to ADAA galleries and discussions with industry leaders, curators, and artists.
The large-scale arrival of new and veteran dealers has given the neighborhood its first unifying theme in 60 years. Here are three walks with our critics, a springboard to explore.
A new exhibition, Kindred Solidarities, offers a perspective on how LGBTQ+ people have rewritten traditional ideas of family
The poet and cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum gives ekphrastic interpretations to works by the late proto-punk and queer photographer Jimmy DeSana.
Robin F. Williams’ latest solo show Out Lookers at P·P·O·W teeters between dream and nightmare. It’s unnerving and off-putting with witches, ghosts and trolls whose eyes burn like balls of fire. At the same time, it’s exciting, inviting and challenges us to embrace discomfort. Even the accompanying catalogue by Carmen Maria Machado starts out with a degree of unease: “Come Here. Come Here. Do you believe in ghosts? It doesn’t matter. They believe in you.” Out Lookers plays upon this discomfort and invites the viewer to enter Williams’ supernatural world full of subtle references to urban legends, climate change and horror films. Reframing the way in which women are portrayed in popular culture as scapegoats or mistrusted characters, Williams’ figures are powerful, larger than life and waiting to stare right back at the viewer.
No matter how she evolves as a painter, you can recognize a Robin F Williams work right off the bat. It's a gift of talent. If you were to look at her works from a decade ago to now, they have morphed and transformed in so many different directions and yet there is a core that remains the same. There is a challenge of body, of selfhood, of something otherworldly in all of us. Her newest body of work, Out Lookers, is on view now at PPOW Gallery through November 13, 2021.
For its first in-person edition since 2019, Art Basel Miami Beach will bring 254 exhibitors—roughly the same amount of galleries as in pre-pandemic years. The fair will return to its traditional home of the Miami Beach Convention Center, and run from December 2–4, with two preview days on November 30 and December 1.
The creative, protective, expressive human hand may be the subject of the oldest fiurative depiction of art in history.
And just like that, almost as if there was no global pandemic that crippled the world for the past year and a half, Art Basel returned to the Swiss city where it started over 50 years ago, bringing together 272 premier galleries from 33 countries and territories.
After a summer of “dopamine dressing,” some locals are rethinking their uniform.
Plus, the last days for Deborah Brown at Anna Zorina.
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At Christie’s London, ‘Bold Black British’ (1 – 21 October) is a meeting point of artists working across disciplines and generations. We speak to curator Aindrea Emelife about spotlighting the Black Britons shaping the creative landscape
Art that confronts abuse toward women.
Sales at the world’s most prestigious art fair are doing just fine, even with only a handful of collectors making the transatlantic trek.
From Cynthia Daignault’s new body of work at Kasmin Gallery, New York, to Monika Baer’s first Swiss institutional show in 30 years at Kunsthalle Bern, these are must-see painting shows this season
In August 2020, a Pew Research Center poll discovered that just three percent of the Hispanic population in the United States identifies as Latinx. The director of race and ethnicity research Mark Lopez explained that their rejection of the word had nothing to do with its inclusive framework, but rather its the limited means to describe the population as a whole. The outcome, he said, “reflects the diversity of the nation’s Hispanic population, and the Hispanic population of the U.S. thinks of itself in many different ways.”
The marquee art fair was one of the last major New York events before Covid-19 hit the city; now it’s back in a sparkling new venue.
DAVID WOJNAROWICZ, CLOSE TO THE KNIVES: A MEMOIR OF DISINTEGRATION (VINTAGE, 1991)
As a fan of Wojnarowicz’s visual art, I was stunned to discover how beautiful his writing is.
At Socrates Sculpture Park, Guadalupe Maravilla transforms works of art into therapeutic instruments.
Who better to practice healing than the sick, who have likely experimented relentlessly, and who manage their own bodies every day? The El Salvador–born, New York–based artist Guadalupe Maravilla has channeled his experience with cancer and migration into a healing-focused practice.
In the second installment of GQ’s Fresh Paint series, we visit the studios of four visual artists who are making the art world lively and engaging right now.
In the tradition of Gustave Courbet’s scandalous pussy painting “L’origine du Monde” (1866), MO.CO., the contemporary center in Montpellier, presented a raw and unfiltered exhibition featuring works of two important American feminist artists, the now iconic Marilyn Minter and Betty Tompkins. The exhibitions titled respectively Marylin Minter: ALL WET and Betty Tompkins: RAW MATERIAL, are unique and groundbreaking, offering both artists their first solo exhibition within a French institution.
OneRepublic architect Ryan Tedder is among those at the absolute pinnacle of pop/rock singer/songwriters. You can tell it just from the company he keeps — McCartney, Taylor Swift, Adele. From his many collaborative adventures, he tells the best story I've ever heard in music.
“I want it to feel as though these women are getting the last laugh,” artist Robin Francesca Williams explains about the toothy grins in her atmospheric portraits. With much of her work, Williams aims to show how women have been mistrusted, scapegoated, and demonized, but also to expose the expectation of their moral superiority, that they must kindly demonstrate purity and unconditional love on behalf of mankind.
The London-based dealer of four decades is downsizing and having a 200-lot sale of contemporary art, Modern furniture, ethnographic art and antiquities
Artists from Imogen Cunningham and Sebastião Salgado to Peo Michie and Lena Chen have had their works banned from the platform, despite Instagram’s ostensibly art-friendly guidelines.
Artists from Imogen Cunningham and Sebastião Salgado to Peo Michie and Lena Chen have had their works banned from the platform, despite Instagram’s ostensibly art-friendly guidelines.
Luce Gallery presents Everyday Secrets, a group show curated by artist Mosie Romney bringing together new works by Chris Lloyd, Collins Obijiaku, Bony Ramirez, Mosie Romney, Curtis Talwst Santiago, and Sydney Elexis Vernon.
The artist is unafraid to be bold and subversive, shocking the art world with her sexually explicit closeup paintings. Now, Tompkins brings the modern context of the #MeToo movement into her work, as well as taking her "Fuck Paintings" series to France, the country that first censored her.
In 1984, eight-year-old Guadalupe Maravilla left his family and joined a group of other children fleeing their homes in El Salvador. The Central American country was in the midst of a brutal civil war, a profoundly traumatic experience that’s left an indelible impact on the artist and one that guides his broad, multi-disciplinary practice to this day.
The picture frame has a long history of underappreciation. For centuries, collectors and museums treated frames as afterthoughts to the artworks they contained, swapping them out according to changing tastes or to match their immediate surroundings. The New York frame dealer Eli Wilner recounted that even in the 1980s, major galleries gave him their unwanted antique frames for free.
The new series Migrant Futures is aimed at pushing forward our thinking and action about immigration and borders.
In recent years, we’ve witnessed renewed momentum surrounding spirituality in the art world. At museums, late artists who dove deeply into mysticism and religion are gaining posthumous attention.
In Cape Cod, exhibition ‘Tidal Motion’ explores the legacy of artist David Wojnarowicz. Though the artist’s life was cut short by HIV/AIDs in 1992, his work continues to inspire a generation of contemporary artists
Groeningemuseum presents the solo exhibition ‘Lemon Drizzle’ by Belgian artist Sanam Khatibi, showcasing works that illustrate an exotic, sumptuously detailed world.
David Wojnarowicz's Overdue Provincetown Debut
A video installation by Wu Tsang with Beverly Glenn-Copeland is part of a series of shows with a shared political charge, a taste of what can be.
L.A.-based artist Ishi Glinsky, a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation, often employs the careful study of First Nations’ craftwork as the basis for his paintings and sculptures.
In conjunction with Ann Agee's Madonnas and Hand Warmers, P·P·O·W presented a virtual conversation with Agee and Loie Hollowell, moderated by poet Iris Cushing.
Like almost every other woman in the world, Zuzanna Ciolek grew up receiving the message that women needed to look a certain way, and act a certain way, in order to be worthy of love.
Though it’s tempting to hole up inside to escape the summer heat, meaningful art makes a sunny jaunt worth the trip. Crafted with the intention to provoke thought and help us catch our collective breath, temporary art installations by Sam Durant, Melvin Edwards, Mimi Lien, Guadalupe Maravilla and Sam Moyer installed across Manhattan and Queens this season are both grounding and impactful.
P·P·O·W presents Ann Agee’s third solo exhibition “Madonnas and Hand Warmers” through July 23 2021.
What makes a passion for pottery? Kate Finnigan meets six female ceramicists with a unique vision.
Funky and elegant by turn, Ann Agee’s ceramic Madonnas testify to an imagination run wild.
Fifty years after they broke onto the scene with their bold representations of female pleasure, two American feminist pioneers are finally honored with their first solo shows in France.
When I started working in the museum’s Arts of Asia department a year ago, I was thrilled to care for an expansive collection that connects with my cultural heritage and the place of my birth for the first time in my career.
Two of the country’s largest philanthropic organizations have joined forces for a new initiative that aims to bring visibility to Latinx art in the United States.
Three L.A. artists are among 15 people receiving $50,000 each as the inaugural winners of the newly established Latinx Artist Fellowship, a program administered by the U.S. Latinx Art Forum with support from the Andrew W. Mellon and Ford foundations.
Over the past six years, Travis has placed 18 of the 20 galleries currently located in Tribeca’s rows of ornate, cast iron–clad buildings, primarily concentrated to the consecutive Lispenard, Walker, White, and Franklin Streets, between Broadway and Church Street.
From camper van photography to ceramic bananas, here is this month’s must-see art.
The Ford Foundation and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will give 75 artists $50,000 each.
We had the opportunity to sit down, albeit virtually, with Pete Scantland, the founder and CEO of the advertising company Orange Barrel Media, and Columbus-based contemporary art collector. Over the past four years, Scantland has amassed quite an impressive collection of some of the most sought after names in the art industry today.
As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words.
Explore the tarot cards of The Met’s Watson Library
Since finding in tapestry weaving her unique way of self-expression, Brooklyn-based artist Erin M. Riley has been presenting to the world intimate yet relatable pieces that perfectly expose the reality and feelings of a society stuck between the physical and virtual worlds.
New York artist Betty Tompkins has never been shy about making a statement. Through large, monochrome paintings and text art, her photo-realistic works portray raw sexual acts through a feminist lens.
These spaces nudge you toward unexpected art surprises and offer vistas of healing and history.
From gonzo road trips to resurrected concert docs, religious horror to cultural cringe-comedy — our picks for the halfway-point highlights of our moviegoing year
Tompkins unflinchingly looks at how female bodies are displayed, disciplined, and offered up to men.
Anticipated exhibitions in sculpture, drawing, painting, and photography looking at feminism, art history, glamour and nature; an IRL art fair; a talk on making artists books; sound art in the park; a fundraiser for fire-devastated local artists; more than one 80s flashback; and an arts-inspired pop-up in historic architecture.
Trevon Latin, Raúl de Nieves, and other artists are uplifting traditional craft techniques for a new era.
In 2002, Betty Tompkins showed her ‘Fuck Paintings’ to acclaim in New York – but when she began to paint these large-scale, photorealist close-ups of pornographic imagery in the late 1960s, they were widely rejected, and by feminists and conservatives alike.
“Realizing that I have nothing left to lose in my actions I let my hands become weapons, my teeth become weapons, every bone and muscle and fiber and ounce of blood become weapons, and I feel prepared for the rest of my life.”
PPOW has been a fixture of New York’s art world for nearly four decades, managing not only to survive but also to stay ahead of the curve.
For her third solo show at PPOW, Ann Agee offers works from the fictional “Agee Manufacturing Company”—all handmade ceramic wares that speak to the history of industrial production and factory labor.
What’s the latest neighborhood offering affordable rents and decent foot traffic to young and emerging galleries? TriBeCa, one of the most expensive ZIP codes in the country.
The Columbus Museum of Art (CMA) is poised to become a contemporary art destination for years to come.
Exploring digital narratives of undoing, P·P·O·W presented a virtual panel discussion between Suzanne Treister, Auriea Harvey, and Lu Yang in conjunction with The Unbody, a fully digital group exhibition.
In “The Consensual Reality of Healing Fantasies,” an exhibition of tapestries by the fiber artist Erin M. Riley current open at PPOW Gallery in New York through June 12, the scars of childhood trauma are laid bare.
Riley’s work positions front and center everyday images of women’s lived experiences, unapologetically centering traumas often swept out of sight.
Martin Wong, one of the most distinct documentarians of New York City, loved underdogs. In his art, he portrayed loud people hanging in dank stairwells, graffiti artists who worked in the dark, and men who lost, especially those who had lost big, with years of their lives in the state prison system.
It was Frieze Week 2021 when Erin Riley’s second solo exhibition with P·P·O·W Gallery, “The Consensual Reality of Healing Fantasies,” opened on May 7. I had been seeing the tapestries in full and in detail throughout 2020 on my Instagram screen. But as with any of Riley’s work, her skill and mastery of composing large scale in striking detail can only truly be appreciated when seen in person.
Joan Semmel’s unabashed self-portraits; Erin M. Riley’s handwoven tapestries; and Kathleen Ryan’s “bad fruit” sculptures.
June is reopening month for New York City! With the weather warming up, the city has lots of outdoor art premiering in fun destinations to check out.
Pure magic is what I thought when I first encountered Joe Houston’s paintings.
PPOW Gallery // May 07, 2021 - June 05, 2021
On the occasion of their respective solo exhibitions, P·P·O·W presented a virtual panel discussion between fiber artist Erin M. Riley and figurative painter Joe Houston.
Here's what dealers say they sold.
When I first encountered Wong’s work at his posthumous Bronx Museum retrospective in 2015, I was enthralled by his tender, lonely visions of multicultural cityscapes; his hunger for beautiful, dangerous men; and his flagrant displays of desire.
As of May 22nd there is an additional Rive Droite art museum in Paris called La Bourse de Commerce that shows selections of François Pinault’s contemporary art collection. Works in the collection rotate around within a circular Belle Époque building that formerly served as the commodities exchange building.
After months of online viewing room (OVR) teasers, the anticipation for the hybrid 2021 edition of Art Basel Hong Kong turned into palpable excitement as fairgoers slowly trickled into the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre on Wednesday, a local public holiday, for the first of the fair’s VIP entry slots
Visiting galleries were required to quarantine, and many have found help for their booths from local players.
On my way to P·P·O·W’s new storefront gallery in Chinatown, coming out of the Canal Street J/Z subway, I walked past an imposing gray building that I later learned was the Manhattan Detention Complex. Known as “The Tombs,” it housed several hundred inmates before closing in November 2020.
MAY 19 WAS A HISTORIC DAY IN FRANCE. After six months of Covid-19 lockdown, restaurants, cinemas, theaters, and museums finally reopened to the public. In Paris, a hub for fine dining and fine art, this major step toward normalcy was feted like a national holiday as institutions including the Louvre, Musée d’Orsay, Centre Pompidou, and Musée d’Art Moderne welcomed back visitors. Adding to the excitement, the city will gain a brand-new shrine to contemporary art on May 22: François Pinault’s collection at the Bourse de Commerce.
After her mother died, writer and curator Tess Charnley used the artist’s images of Peter Hujar at the moment of his death to chart a course through loss.
Chiffon Thomas, a Chicago interdisciplinary artist, tells Vacant Mag’s editor-in-chief, Lui Val, about identity, the insane past year, and how it is like to navigate through the scene as young artists.
Plus, check out shows including artists such as Dominique Fung, Erin M. Riley, Arghavan Khosravi, Josie Love Roebuck, and others.
Like all autobiographies, artists’ memoirs require two ingredients: a compelling life story and the ability to put it to paper. For lots of people, though, it seems counterintuitive that a visual artist would pick up a pen. This is nonsense, of course. Many artists can write, even if people are surprised when they do. As proof that artists are often accomplished at it, we present our choices for the best artists’ memoirs, ranging from scandalous to epic.
What does it mean to live in a utopia of our own design? How can opposing ideas or bodies occupy the same space, where binary qualities are bound together to create a translation of form that is whole and yet wholly singular?
After a successful solo exhibition at PPOW gallery, the Brooklyn-based artist is gearing up for an exhibition at Galerie Maria Bernheim in Zurich this summer
Underneath the patent seductiveness of their size and skill, Glinsky’s works synthesize questions about the survival of sub and “minor” cultures into something so big it feels like an answer.
Kitaoji Rosanjin’s graceful pottery; a dual show of Martin Wong and Aaron Gilbert paintings; the group exhibition “Latinx Abstract”; and Hou Zichao’s pixelized landscapes.
Art created during a crisis can be a powerful catharsis for both artist and audience. Chinese American Martin Wong (1946-1999) once said, “Everything I paint is within four blocks of where I live.”
As part of the gallery’s current show of works by contemporary Brooklyn painter Aaron Gilbert and the late artist Martin Wong, P.P.O.W. is hosting a Zoom talk with Gilbert, scholar and curator Rich Blint, and graffiti artist Chris Daze Ellis, a close friend of Wong’s.
P·P·O·W presented a virtual panel discussion between Brooklyn-based artist Aaron Gilbert; American graffiti artist and friend of Martin Wong, Chris Daze Ellis; and scholar, writer, and curator Rich Blint in conjunction with 1981-2021, the two-person exhibition featuring Gilbert and the late Chinese-American painter Martin Wong.
The latest exhibition at the Tribeca gallery P.P.O.W. juxtaposes the work of the Brooklyn-based artist Aaron Gilbert and the late Chinese American painter Martin Wong. This intergenerational dialogue focuses on two artists whose work chronicles a continuum of life within a city under siege.
Upon entering Chris Sharp Gallery, I am instantly subsumed by Glinsky’s monolithically scaled leather jacket that levitates in the middle of the room.
Sparking an intergenerational dialogue, this exhibition focuses on two artists whose practices amplify the societal pressures of both their private lives and the New York communities they inhabit.
In this new exhibit, the late artist Martin Wong's works will be paired with Aaron Gilbert’s ongoing series.
Gerald Lovell’s portraits are layered: his subjects’ faces are encrusted with thick globs of paint, which sharply contrast with the rest of his works’ flatly rendered surroundings. These emphatically painted pieces make seemingly mundane scenes - like a man eating at a diner or a woman sitting in a chair - feel special, like they’re worth looking at twice.
Chronicles of the life in New York within the last 40 years.
Today, April 9, Chiffon Thomas debuts their solo show at Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles. Using techniques ranging across hand embroidered mixed media painting, collage, drawing, and sculpture, Thomas examines issues of race, gender, and sexuality. Identifying as a non-binary queer person of color, Thomas’ works examine the difficulties faced by defining one’s identity in contemporary society.
Only around 30 dealers from outside the region will participate in this year's event.
Healing, and self-care in general, is a major industry right now — at the beginning of 2021, the self care industry was valued at $450 billion. But Guadalupe Maravilla doesn’t believe that healing comes from downloading an app or paying a shaman $1,000 to cleanse your energy. Instead, he says, real healing comes from being kind to others, helping those in need and giving back to the community — not just once in a while, but every day. Healing, for Maravilla personally, expresses itself in art.
How galleries in New York made it through one of the darkest years on record is a story of quick pivots and adaptations, and an acknowledgment that—pandemic or no pandemic—the fundamental way that galleries function in the high-flying art world was due for a change.
It could come in handy that Chris McKim was profiling an artist ahead of his time in “Wojnarowicz,” even when that would mean a little bit of a wait for his film.
“There are cycles in a curatorial life,” says Ashley James, the new associate curator of contemporary art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. One morning, she may start her day by showing up to the museum and installing a show, but in between exhibitions, a lot of the job is just handling emails and trying to find time to read.
“Artists on Our Radar” is a monthly series produced collaboratively by Artsy’s Editorial and Curatorial teams. Utilizing our art expertise and access to Artsy data, each month, we highlight five artists who have our attention. To make our selections, we’ve determined which artists made an impact this past month through new gallery representation, exhibitions, auctions, art fairs, or fresh works on Artsy.
P.P.O.W. Gallery // April 02, 2021 - May 01, 2021
Think you've streamed everything? Try one of these new art films.
Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**ker is a fiery and urgent documentary portrait of downtown New York City artist, writer, photographer, and activist David Wojnarowicz. As New York City became the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, Wojnarowicz weaponized his work and waged war against the establishment’s indifference to the plague until his death from it in 1992 at the age of 37.
The director makes inspired use of the late artist’s own extensive video and audio, photography, ephemera, and journals
Fleeing civil war in his native El Salvador, Maravilla arrived in the U.S., in 1984, as an unaccompanied eight-year-old. Some thirty years later, the Brooklyn-based artist was diagnosed with and survived colon cancer. He channels both of these experiences in his impressive début at the P.P.O.W. gallery’s handsome new space, in Tribeca.
what are these anthropomorphic creatures, the toxic palette, and the orgiastic tableaux telling us? is it a psychedelic eden or a bad trip, stories of survivalism or genderless sexuality?
Chris McKim’s documentary weaves striking archival materials into a biographical tapestry commemorating an ’80s New York art-scene maverick.
Artist biographies tend to be genteel affairs, full of tweedy academics serenely explaining the subject’s importance in terms suitable for classroom viewing, where the slow camera pans over canvases set to classical music will inevitably lull at least half the students to sleep. (Art documentaries do a lot to keep kids from ever getting interested in art.) As one might surmise from its title, “Wojnarowicz: F--- You F-ggot F---er,” is in no danger of being shown in schools any time soon, which is in some ways a shame.
In the pandemic's wake, galleries in hard-hit Manhattan are rethinking their priorities, diversifying with destination pop-ups or recommitting to their neighborhoods
Chris McKim's "F**k You F*ggot F**ker" is a fittingly angry tribute to a polarizing yet vital artist, and a portrait of AIDS in America.
Good vibrations: the artist offers up his assemblages and sound baths.
Drawing deeply on the artist’s archival materials, Chris McKim’s documentary considers the New York art scene of the nineteen-eighties and the politicized ravages of AIDS.
A documentary on the artist David Wojnarowicz shows the ways that the rebel was a prophet, and honors him appropriately.
Wojnarowicz features selections from hundreds of hours of personal recordings the artist left behind after his 1992 death.
The queer artist set New York’s 1980s art scene aflame. In a new movie, friends like Nan Goldin and Fran Lebowitz reflect on his impact.
As a new book is released exploring the modern, smartphone-facilitated phenomenon of 'sending nudes', Holly Williams reflects on the lineage of naked self-representation it continues.
With COVID-19 vaccinations ramping up and the official start of spring just around the corner, it seems a natural time to cautiously ease back into “normal” public life or something more closely resembling it. Longer days and fairer weather also, of course, means more time spent outside with sculpture gardens, open-air art spaces, and museum grounds offering an ideal bridge between indoor gallery-going and reconnecting with the great outdoors during a season of renewal and rebirth.
non-profit arts organization the billboard collective presents the seventh iteration of its public billboard exhibition opening on april 5 and taking over the streets of los angeles. featuring the work of 30 emerging and established artists, the project turns billboard advertising spaces into open-air art exhibitions. this year’s show includes works from guest artists ramiro gomez, phung huynh, narsiso martinez, and calida rawness.
Shinichi Sawada’s ceramic creatures; Sophie Larrimore and Jerry the Marble Faun’s two-person show; and Guadalupe Maravilla’s devotional paintings.
The gift introduces a number of artists into the collection, including Robert Gober and David Wojnarowicz.
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month.
Produced under the artist’s supervision, this version of Parts of a Body House Book raises fascinating questions about what it means to reproduce something originally so handmade.
A Woman’s Right to Pleasure is a new compendium celebrating female erotic art. We meet its contributors, including the photographer who turned her vagina into a camera
A new Mint Gallery exhibition illustrates this artist’s unique skill in rendering the human figure.
With theatrical exhibition regaining some life as New York City theaters open up at a limited capacity this month, the spring and summer will be an interesting time for the film industry.
Maravilla was part of the first wave of unaccompanied, undocumented children to arrive at the United States border in the 1980s as a result of the Salvadoran Civil War. While Maravilla emigrated at the age of eight, he became a U.S. citizen at the age of 26. Yet it was not until his recovery from colon cancer in 2013 that he felt the urgency to speak out about the struggles so many undocumented immigrants and their families face.
The Atlanta-based artist Gerald Lovell began painting at the age of 22 after discovering that a formal arts degree in graphic design wasn't for him. Several years later, after some encouragement from friends in the city's budding arts scene and a little help from YouTube, Lovell recently opened his first solo show in New York City.
When we think of queer photographers Robert Mapplethorpe, David Wojnarowicz or Andy Warhol come to mind. But rarely do we think of women. Men have traditionally been given museum solo shows.
This January, Artsy is launching a series of three features to spotlight the trends we’re watching in 2021. Using our internal data, each of these features reflects a theme we saw emerge during the end of 2020 that we expect to take hold across the contemporary art world in the year ahead.
Chiffon Thomas is an interdisciplinary artist whose works range from mixed-media painting and collage to drawing and sculpture.
Ishi Glinsky’s limited collaboration with Stance embraces performance and technology to create intertribal celebrations, merging the past with the present.
Mark your calendar for these IRL and virtual events.
Commemorating what would have been the artist’s 71st birthday this month, Blind Magazine looks back at the life and times of an underground art radical.
“Spread,” Stoller’s recent exhibition, was introduced by a group of sculptures with profiles resembling ordinary vases or urns. The bodies of these vessels, however, morph into tasseled breasts or buttocks surrounded by delicate lace, their forms further embellished by such incongruous features as a base with four gilded feet ending in long, painted nails, lids ornamented with butterflies and writhing snakes, and handles that double as ears with large, dangling earrings. In addition to slyly reworking the traditional vase, Stoller’s often grotesque revisions upend the patronizing view of women as decorative accessories; instead, they celebrate the allure of the non-canonical, extravagant female body.
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.
Sculptor Clementine Keith-Roach, who creates terracotta vessels featuring limbs, breasts, and other human body parts, has joined the New York–based gallery P.P.O.W.
Artist Jessica Stoller speaks with Cultured about her labor-intensive, highly detailed porcelain sculptures that present a corporeal, witty feminism.
LGBTQ Pride month is now. Every day in June, we are celebrating the community by featuring one queer art worker and asking them to reflect on what this moment means to them.
How artists, galleries, and art fairs are weathering the storm of the global pandemic.
As COVID-19 continues to proliferate throughout New York City, forcing all art institutions to remain closed to the public, museums and galleries have been scrambling to convert their programming to an online-only format. A standout example of this adaptation is P.P.O.W.’s current presentation, Hell is a Place on Earth. Heaven is a Place in Your Head.
In Chowdhury’s eerily beautiful world, the mythic and the contemporary merge.
From anti-porn feminists to the French government to Instagram, Tompkins has been fighting censorship—and paving the way to free sexual expression—for nearly 50 years
It felt as though I had entered an alternate reality, populated by enchanted flowers, mysterious women, and a menagerie of eerie woodland creatures.
Mamma Andersson at David Zwirner, Lyle Ashton Harris' photographs in Houston and the unveiling of Hauser & Wirth's new NYC gallery: Here are the best gallery shows to see this spring.
Betty Tompkins and Martha Wilson are two figures who blazed the trail feminist art—they played the field with the likes of Judy Chicago, Carolee Schneeman and Hannah Wilke, all of whom rattled the international art world with conversations that continue to this today. For a special project at Los Angeles’s Felix Art Fair, curator William J. Simmons has organized a multi-generational group exhibition—“Cruel Optimism”—in which Tompkins and Wilson feature prominently. The two spoke to Cultured about their paths through the art world and what it’s like to show alongside a younger generation of artists who are carrying the torch today.
From piano-playing nipples to ceramics with body hair, these are the rising art stars the Elephant team thinks you should check out.
The new decade is shaping up to be quite the global spectacle already with corona-virus in China, protests in Hong Kong, impeachments and election dramas in the US, and the seemingly never-ending Brexit withdrawal unfolding in the UK. In uncertain times artists have always been tried-and-true soothsayers of the way forward, and in 2020 that proves no exception. If you’re ready to see the work of a few interesting, and perhaps unfamiliar artists, here are 6 contemporary talents (and one little-known, historical artist) with shows you can see around the world this February.
Recent shows in San Francisco and Houston of the artist’s assemblages demonstrate our ‘futile attempts of putting things together’
Close-up renderings of bodies covered in sheer fabric and delicate porcelain vases depicting bums, breasts and skin account for some of the best (and most challenging) art on view in Chelsea.
This year is already shaping up as one of the strongest and most visible ever for queer creativity at the world's top museums.
Jessica Stoller’s porcelain sculptures both examine art-historical notions of the material and how the female body has been depicted. Her current show at PPOW Gallery in New York City, titled “Spread,” offers new pieces from the artist. The show runs through Feb. 15 at the space.
We live in such a fascinating era of sculpture art, with a collection of emerging artists working with ceramics and porcelain in exciting ways.
Hunter Reynolds on drag, gender, and resurrecting his alter ego
Hunter Reynolds’s show at PPOW Gallery in New York, on view until December 21, 2019, takes up questions of identity, gender and mourning in ways that feel innovative even twenty-five years after some of the works were made.
Miss Rosen speaks to Hunter Reynolds as he prepares to stage a new exhibition titled Drag to Dervish, which celebrates and chronicles the life of Patina du Prey
The current show at P·P·O·W gallery in New York boasts a variety of garments, art objects, ephemera, film, and photography — all working together to reconstruct a semblance of Hunter Reynolds’ life as drag performance artist, Patina du Prey.
This week, the annual ARTWALK benefit, KAWS in conversation at the 92nd Street Y, and more.
Annabeth Rosen’s extraordinary exhibit of clay sculptures at the Contemporary Jewish Museum—single pieces resembling serving vessels, table settings and standing figures—is a virtuosic display of craftsmanship, but also of experimentation.
Inspired by western and non-western masters alike, visual artist Sanam Khatibi interrogates our personal and political power-structures through material and scenic juxtapositions in her paintings, embroidery, tapestries and ceramic sculptures. TLmag talks to the Belgian artist and reflects on the underlying personal attributes that influence her intuitive practice.
Hortensia Mi Kafchin explains how most of her paintings can be read like a journal. The information she absorbs from art history, philosophy, science fiction, conspiracy theories, and popular culture, mixes with her dreams, fears and her childhood memories from her birth-place, Romania. She talks about how a near-death experience shifted her entire worldview, and how her recent transition from male to female inspires her to explore internalized issues related to her gender, and her relationships to God, time, and death.
P.P.O.W. Gallery in Manhattan has added the New York–based painter Hilary Harkness, who was represented by the now-shuttered Mary Boone Gallery from 2003 to 2019, to its roster.
The artist discusses the process of engaging with maternity — and the rise of ‘boob pottery’
This summer in Limoges, France, the Fondation Bernardaud presents a feast of cakes, pies, ice cream, and other life-like treats made by a group of 14 ceramic sculptors from around the world. Titled Céramiques Gourmandes and curated by Olivier Castaing, the exhibition explores the sometimes unsavory topics of mass consumption, desire, and cultural identity.
Much better is the video installation of drag artist Victoria Sin performing Cantonese songs projected on shimmering white sheets, or Hunter Reynolds’s spinning ‘Memorial Dress’ emblazoned with the names of countless Aids victims.
A silk ballgown printed with the names of 25,000 people known to have died of AIDS related illnesses will go on display at the Hayward Gallery tomorrow.
When New Age first came into vogue in the late ’60s and ’70s, yoga, meditation and astrology as well as vegetarianism were viewed as exotic and often dismissed as forms of quackery. Practiced for the most part by the counterculture during that time, it was considered an alternative form of spirituality from western forms of worship.
Chanel Chiffon Thomas’ self-portrait, “Colossians 3:9” shows the artist as a split being. Thomas strikes a stately pose, arms akimbo, staring straight at the viewer, as if daring you to meet their eye.
Something in the totality of Annabeth Rosen’s work does not lend itself to the question/answer format of the formal interview. Her conversational style, like her work, is rich and discursive, gaining in depth and resonance through additions and accumulations.
Chanel Chiffon Thomas’s exhibition at Goldfinch, “Fractured Reality,” featured eight bold assemblages in which thick sinews of embroidery are joined with found fabric, painted canvas, and other mediums to create portraits and genre scenes.
The American painter renders flamboyant still-lifes and fantastic scenes of a mythic all-women realm with the same loaded-brush force.
From Vincent Fecteau’s killer cats to Aki Sasamoto’s barroom tricks, a selection of exhibitions not to miss.
Adam Putnam talks about the mysterious photographs of Alfred Cook
Uncompromising female artists dominate in the top booths at this annual fair at the Park Avenue Armory.
Walking into Chicago’s Goldfinch Projects gallery space, a cluster of paintings greet and orient viewers in the interior of a Black family’s home: an infant sleeping on the chest of a resting father, a smiling mother and her two children, a little Black boy and his father seated at the kitchen table. The paintings are distinctive for their carefully weaved fibers and fabrics, each of which contributes a unique tactility to the work.
Linhares has become a pioneer who paved the way for a generation of women artists to develop their own alternative worlds.
Like her 17th century literary forebears, Judith Linhares is a raconteuse. She draws from mythology and fairy tales—especially fairy tales—but she rarely uses themes that, as she says, “are actually known... It’s really important for me to make everything up.”
From a Charles White retrospective to raw canvases inspired by the occult and queer sex magic
Nari Ward has his first-ever survey at a New York museum and Judith Linhares brings her feminist paintings to P.P.O.W.
In her first solo exhibition since being added to P.P.O.W.’s roster, Judith Linhares offers paintings that imagine a universe without men. Blending various elements of Abstract Expressionism and Bay Area figuration, the works in “Hearts on Fire” show nude women, various creatures, and flowers in fantastical, vibrant settings.
A just-opened exhibition in Berlin explores a lesser-seen side of Wojnarowicz’s work, along with photographs and films of him by his fellow artists
Nari Ward has his first-ever survey at a New York museum and Judith Linhares brings her feminist paintings to P·P·O·W.
Allison Schulnik uses painting, ceramics, and hand-made, traditional animation to choreograph her subjects in compositions that embody a spirit of the macabre, a Shakespearean comedy/tragedy of love, death, and farce.
Complex and colorful drawings by Toyin Ojih Odutola, Nathaniel Mary Quinn and Elijah Burgher make for an unusually rich show in “For Opacity,” curated by Claire Gilman at the Drawing Center.
Allison Schulnik’s textured paintings move between stirring and ominous scenes and more surreal characters. The denseness of her process gives her paintings a sculptural quality. Study of each work reveals several layers and intrigue.
“DRAG: Self-portraits and Body Politics” is on view in the HENI Project Space at Hayward Gallery in London through Sunday, October 14.
An early proponent of feminism, Martha Wilson has been exploring female identity in patriarchal society since the early 1970s.
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 parts of themselves that are usually out of reach for others.
We speak to Clementine Keith-Roach, whose nipple vases are on show in London now, about anthropomorphising pottery to explore the female identity
Dotty Attie first began to exhibit in the early 1970s, a period often remembered as hostile to painting as a medium of significant art. Indeed, although she began her career as a painter, from 1970 onward Attie worked not in painting but in drawing, and when she started to paint again, around 1985, she leaned on the strategies of Minimal and Conceptual art, the schools that had displaced painting in the art world’s attention
The recent Ken Burns and Lynn Novick documentary notwithstanding, the Vietnam War is an event that simply can't be fully understood. Much of Dinh Q. Lê's art is driven by this sense of the unresolvable, of competing narratives — personal experience, collective memory, historical record, fictional accounts, propaganda and more.
The theme of transformation took centre stage in Mi Kafchin’s recent exhibition at Berlin’s Galerie Judin, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. Born in the Romanian city of Galați in 1986, and formerly the assistant of Romanian painter Adrian Ghenie, she relocated from Cluj-Napoca to Berlin just over a year ago, working in a studio above the gallery itself.
In his staged, gel-lit nudes, Jimmy DeSana explored the body as object.
From Marcel Duchamp to today's hot young drag performers out of Brooklyn, drag and fine art have a long, twisted history.
Chowdhury’s paintings occupy a threshold between the visible and something more mysterious.
Despite the rise to prominence of so-called good postmodern artists like Nan Goldin and Cindy Sherman, however, there are still plenty of photographers being rediscovered today. One of them is Jimmy DeSana, who died in 1990 at the age of 40 from AIDS-related causes.
Let these 24 artists show you what a gender-fluid future looks like.
The Woman Destroyed, currently on view at PPOW Gallery, takes as its organizing theme the 1967 Simone de Beauvoir book of the same title, comprised of three stories that explore the personal crises of middle-aged and aging women.
For my generation of American gay men, the AIDS epidemic was a second Vietnam War. A long-overdue historical survey of the era has finally arrived.
The traveling exhibition “Art AIDS America,” on view at the Bronx Museum of the Arts through September 25, features a varied selection of art from the earliest days of the crisis to the present.
Ikon gallery, Birmingham
Drone’s-eye view of Peru’s historic guano trenches is cut, Kafka-esque, with recent footage from Vietnam and China in this latest Artangel commission
Can art depicting empty classrooms shape education policy?
To mark World AIDS Day, the New York–based arts nonprofit Visual AIDS, which supports HIV-positive artists and fights the disease through art, released a slide show called Radiant Presence, with images of works in the organization’s Artist+ Registry, which is the largest database of works by artists with HIV/AIDS.
“Everything Is a Re-Enactment,” one of two new works being presented in a solo exhibition, “Dinh Q. Le: Memory for Tomorrow,” at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, represents an expansion of his gaze to regions beyond Vietnam and the United States.
Survival AIDS Medication Reminder is an act of self-historicizing — establishing an account of his activist role within the AIDS crisis, particularly around the epic social and political battles of the 1980s and 1990s.
Art Show Captures the Wrenching Effects of Closing a School
Crafted from two-by-fours and lashed at the waist (as it were) by ropes and bungee cords, multiple X-shaped structures span the gallery from floor to high ceiling in Adam Putnam's bewitching exhibition at P.P.O.W.
Stoller’s PPOW show has distinct connections and resonances with Allison Schulnik’s solo exhibition not too far away in Chelsea, at ZieherSmith.
“I don’t think I really saw it until I was about 14,” Emmy-winning TV writer Eli Attie says of his mother Dotty Attie’s art. “But there was a point where I was staring at a painting I had probably seen every day for years and realized, ‘Oh, wow, that’s actually very provocative.'”
Fully exploiting a photograph’s potential to be both fact and fiction, DeSana's works delve into the vagaries of the human heart and the human psyche, taking us with them.
Staking a history on the fragility of the body, Reynolds explores mortality in an exultant way, nurturing a congregation around the fire and then transporting that energy into the gallery, where the rich colors of vibrant totemic forms populate a new assembly.
Now in its 24th year, this annual showcase of the Art Dealers Association of America combines polish and relevance. It offers current hits from the museums and galleries as well as historical goodies in one tasteful and increasingly manageable package.
The myth of the modern medical cure both inspires and deludes us. It inspires for the obvious reason that the healing image of the end of disease and the guarantee of long life remain within our genetic imperative and moral code for survival.
Jessica Stoller’s sensual ceramic works illustrate how harmony can be found through opposing extremes, pairing saccharine gluttony with the sadomasochistic tug of bondage and allusions to death’s possibility.