From cryptic creatures to cyanotype rituals—here’s what to see in the city this season.

From Aaron Gilbert’s take on capitalism to Weegee’s distortions of celebrity culture, these exhibitions all critique or reflect the world around us.

Judith Linhares’s works comprise just a few elements, yet they are bodied forth in endless permutations that convey both whimsy and menace.

An artist, a gallerist, and a curator come together to discuss the legacy of Martin Wong, the self-taught painter who amassed one of the world’s most significant street art collections.

A patron saw the beauty in graffiti when most of the world thought it was mere nuisance. Now the writing (of Lee Quiñones, Rammellzee, Futura and others) is on the museum wall.

Ahead of a major autumn survey at Modern Art Oxford, Suzanne Treister is showing a new series of works, Hexen 5.0, together with a selection of her visionary Museum paintings at Annely Juda in London. 

Anonymous Was A Woman has transformed the US art scene for the better, keeping alive many women’s practices when many institutions wouldn’t.

For a century, the frame was meant to disappear. Today, it’s a site of rebellion, narrative, and physical presence.

Continually experimenting with different ways of applying and manipulating paint, Williams presents graphically sophisticated scenes that speak to our times.

Linhares doesn’t hold back packing the gallery with paintings that feature strange figurative archetypes, gaudy décor, and kitschy bits all in an embrace of the subversive potential of visual excess.

On AI’s psychedelic edge, science is spiraling back towards its mystical origins, driven by a counterculture that’s not after free love so much as fatter profits.

Linhares’ exhibition is a masterclass in storytelling through paint, offering a visual journey that is both timeless and profoundly contemporary.

French graphic novels, a new ecological movement and her trademark sunglasses: the innovator of digital art shares her favourite things.

Discover the 8 must-see Kabinett exhibits at Art Basel Hong Kong 2025, featuring innovative solo exhibitions and thematic projects by global and Asia-Pacific artists.

From the first wave of feminism in the 1840s to second-wave feminism and the Feminist art movement of the 1960s and ’70s through the intersectional feminism of today, these 15 artworks by American women stand out for the lasting impact they’ve had on art history.

In the Kabinett section of P·P·O·W’s booth, a mini retrospective of the late American artist Martin Wong is an immediate highlight.

Stoller’s mastery over material results in a world where ornament and organic matter merge, exposing both beauty and violence.

In the new issue of AnOther Magazine, Hew Locke talks about how his childhood Christmases in Guyana watching masquerade bands inspires his artwork.

Post-Fair Brings Equitability to Santa Monica

In a conversation with Xuezhu Jenny Wang, Williams discusses their involvement with Artists Commit and the challenges of balancing sustainability with artistic production.

Wong was a remarkable chronicler of the trials and tribulations in New York’s Lower East Side, a locus of creative activity—his supporting role as archivist of the scene is neatly emphasized in “Above Ground.”

Jessica Stoller's third solo exhibition with P·P·O·W., titled "Split," features mind-bending new ceramic works.

Join Hrag Vartanian, artist Lee Quiñones, P·P·O·W Gallery Co-Founder Wendy Olsoff, and MCNY Curator Sean Corcoran for a discussion on the evolution of graffiti as an art form and the lasting influence of visionary artist and collector Martin Wong.

Owen Fu’s debut solo exhibition at P·P·O·W gallery in New York, Own Alone, offers an introspective exploration of personal longing, queer identity, and the passage of time.

Rebelling against patriarchal priorities, Stoller continually confronts romanticized notions of the body through surreal, even monstrous compositions.

The exhibition stages critical dialogues between historic and contemporary works and is accompanied by an eclectic array of programs that range from the scholarly to the practical.

It comes as no surprise that the exhibition argues for Photorealism as a prominent contribution to a historical trajectory leading into contemporary demands for representative identity politics.

Guadalupe Maravilla’s multi-disciplinary practice is rooted in a simple premise: sound is medicine.

I can’t offer any wisdom, but I do feel I have the authority to create a definitive top ten list.

These standout talents discovered at Felix LA and the inaugural Post-Fair should be on every art collector's acquisition list.

Among an array of work by local artists at Post-Fair and the Other Art Fair, the only white cubes to be found were floating in craft cocktails.

Among an array of work by local artists at Post-Fair and the Other Art Fair, the only white cubes to be found were floating in craft cocktails.

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

In an art world dominated by the fair duopoly, galleries are carving out new ways of networking their businesses. At the forefront of one of the latest initiatives, you'll find Chris Sharp.

In conjunction with the final day of Rajkamal Kahlon's Are My Hands Clean?, artist and writer Molly Crabapple will host a tour of the exhibition followed by a Q & A.

The foundation has announced its largest-ever cohort of prizewinners, including artist Guadalupe Maravilla and MoMA curator Oluremi C. Onabanjo.

Through her meticulous practice, Kahlon appropriates and reimagines historical documents, photographs, and texts to critique Western knowledge production and its complicity in racial and colonial violence.

In the process, Riley brings new meaning to craft’s place in a world where the digital is dominant, a world that we typically experience as hyper-present yet disconnected subjects.

A new exhibition in London traces the evolution of tarot from Renaissance Italy to the present day, with the card designs shifting to reflect the times.

Spanning five decades, a show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, traces the evolving relationship between painting and invention

Electric Dreams at Tate Modern reinterprets art at the dawn of the digital explosion as a harbinger for our current moment.

The minute I walked into Promiscuous Rage I was overwhelmed with emotion. Tears welling. I walked up to the front desk and said, about Hunter Reynolds, ‘he was my friend, and I miss him.’

Erin M. Riley's current exhibition at mother's tankstation Look Back At It lays bare the personal, in addition to the sentimental, philosophical and even psychological.

From Alex Ito’s shifting mirrors to Laura Anderson Barbata’s oceanic drag, each piece in this show weaves together themes of identity, protection, and transformation.

As galleries from all over the world arrive in London for an action-packed programme of collaborative exhibitions, we take a look at some of the not-to-miss highlights of Condo London 2025

Though muted in tones, Fu has a unique way of capturing human emotions and social dynamics through vibrant paintings.

An intergenerational pairing of two artists deeply concerned with the investigation and preservation of queer histories, their concomitant subcultures, and inherent gaps

Inside the fair’s most intimate section, visionary galleries stage boundary-breaking dialogues

The editorial team at Elephant has scoured the globe to bring you the artists we want you to know about as we begin the new year.

As Vanessa Carlos’s legendary gallery-swapping scheme returns to London this month, here are five of the best shows to see

The gallery-sharing event, spread across different parts of the UK capital, features participants from Guatemala, Lebanon, Los Angeles and more

“Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet” satisfies our indefatigable desire to look back toward simpler times that were typically anything but.

With over 300 works on paper, plus paintings, sculptures, and furniture, The Way I See It: Selections from the KAWS Collection includes work by artists of every stripe.

P·P·O·W to present Are My Hands Clean?, Rajkamal Kahlon’s second solo exhibition with the gallery.

The new Santa Monica Post Office fair, named for its location in a 1938 Art Deco building, promises camaraderie and affordability.

If you’re interested in Cronenberg’s films, here are seven visual artists whose work explores similar themes.

Santa Monica Post Office will take place in an Art Deco former post office building in downtown Santa Monica, a short drive from Frieze

While the art world has felt bleak amid a buckling market, a new art fair is gracing Los Angeles this year.

How can we develop an art and culture space with a young generation who can work and express themselves more effectively with much bigger ideas than what we have, in their unique ways?

Works drawn from the museum’s collection scrutinize the aftermath of human intervention in the landscape, blending personal narratives with broader societal and ecological concerns.

A two-person, intergenerational display represents two drastically opposed approaches to queer history.

Dinh Q. Lê, an artist known for challenging pieces about trauma and the loss of history in Vietnam, died in April at 56.

While there’s still much more work to be done to ensure that Latinx artists are given their deserved places in the art historical canon, 2024 saw an even greater push toward that end goal.

From blockbuster shows to hidden gems, here's what caught our eye.

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.

Organized partly by chronology and partly by approach, the show is concerned with how artists do and don’t escape from the room they’ve painted themselves into.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

Morán Morán

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.

The Defining Artworks of 2023

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

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.

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. 

Harry Gould Harvey IV: Sick Metal
P.P.O.W. Gallery
Through August 4, 2023

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.

Sun's out, art's out.

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.

SEARCHING FOR OPPORTUNITY IN THE SO-CALLED LAND OF IT

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.

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.

A bi-monthly collection of mixed reviews.

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

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