On the cover: Robin F Williams interview
Delayed Gratification
December 1, 2023
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.
Four Collectors Reveal What Makes Miami Tick Ahead of the City's Art Week
Cultured Magazine
December 1, 2023
Tara and Jack Benmeleh, Dennis Scholl, and Pilar Crespi Robert share how life in Miami shaped the development of their very different art collections.
33 Must-See Exhibitions to Visit This Winter
ARTnews
December 1, 2023
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.
With Metal Studs and Baby Figurines, mosie romney Transforms Canvases Into Gripping Dreamscapes
Cultured Magazine
November 30, 2023
The artist, who recently staged their first solo exhibition with PPOW, is known for their compelling mix of mythological and spiritual subject matter.
Discover highlights from the 2023 Art Basel Miami Beach Conversations program
Art Basel
November 27, 2023
Chance the Rapper, artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons, and philanthropist Estrellita B. Brodsky are among those who will take the stage
The Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum acquired more than 80 works over the past year
The Art Newspaper
November 22, 2023
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
This Week in Culture: November 20 - 26
Cultured Magazine
November 20, 2023
Christian Ludwig Attersee, Dyani White Hawk, Carolee Schneemann, Pope.L, and more are on view in exhibition openings across the globe.
A Painter’s New Civil War
Vulture
November 17, 2023
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.
How Queer artists paint male intimacy today
Art Basel
November 14, 2023
What to show, and how to show it, is being recontextualized by a new generation of creatives
Vibrational Healing Helped Save Artist Guadalupe Maravilla’s Life. Now, He’s Looking To Pass On the Message
Cultured Magazine
November 7, 2023
The Salvadoran artist has blended Indigenous traditions, sound therapy, and symbolism to create a transformative exhibition that is embarking on a tour across Texas.
‘Hilary Harkness: Prisoners From the Front’ Review: A Retouched Portrait of the Civil War
The Wall Street Journal
November 3, 2023
The painter’s first solo show in a decade, at PPOW, offers an imaginative alternate history set immediately before, during and after the War Between the States.
The 10 Best Booths at ADAA: The Art Show 2023
Artsy
November 2, 2023
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.
The Best of the 2023 Edition of The Art Show
Whitewall
November 2, 2023
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.
The Artful Life: 6 Things Galerie Editors Love This Week
Galerie Magazine
November 1, 2023
From Doyle’s new gallery space in Charleston to Chris Wolston’s whimsical pieces installed at Hotel Bel-Air
What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in November
The New York Times
November 1, 2023
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.
Hilary Harkness Interviewed by Ksenia M. Soboleva
BOMB
October 30, 2023
Paintings that offer semi-real and entirely imagined historical narratives.
UTA Artist Space Director Zuzanna Ciolek on the L.A. Art Scene
Women's Wear Daily
October 27, 2023
The Hollywood powerhouse agency has been showcasing art in its Beverly Hills gallery space, as well as in Atlanta and New York.
The Love Letters of David Wojnarowicz
The New Yorker
October 24, 2023
The artist’s correspondence with a Parisian boyfriend offers a glimpse of his life before AIDS.
The Serious Playfulness of Hilary Harkness
Brooklyn Magazine
October 22, 2023
The artist has a new show that deconstructs the Civil War, Gertrude Stein, queer desire and Ernest Hemingway
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
Jimmy DeSana’s luscious suburban wastelands
Chicago Reader
October 17, 2023
The artist’s first solo exhibition in Chicago raises questions about how queer people want or are allowed to exist in certain spaces.
The second edition of Paris+ par Art Basel returns to Grand Palais Éphémère and its extension on the Champ de Mars with a selection of 154 leading galleries from 33 countries and territories.
Artists to Watch This Month: 10 Solo Gallery Shows in New York Not to Miss in October
Artnet News
October 14, 2023
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.
Art Basel’s Paris edition returns as the city’s market grows
Financial Times
October 13, 2023
Head of fairs Vincenzo de Bellis says Paris+ par Art Basel will be more noticeable throughout the capital
The Made in LA Biennial Is All About Diaspora
Hyperallergic
October 3, 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.
A Portfolio: Grace Carney
Juxtapoz
October 2, 2023
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.
The Hammer Museum's 2023 Made in LA Biennial Contains Surprises for Even the Most Cultured Angeleno
Cultured
October 2, 2023
“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.
15 New York Gallery Shows That Altered the Course of Contemporary Art
The New York Times Style Magazine
September 25, 2023
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.
As shipping costs rise, galleries get creative
Art Basel
September 25, 2023
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 First Museum Survey in 30 Years Presented a Moving Exploration of Radical Intimacy
ARTnews
September 21, 2023
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.
Grace Carney’s Meditative Abstract Oil Paintings Are Causing a Stir with Collectors
Galerie Magazine
September 15, 2023
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
Representing Ishi Glinsky
September 14, 2023
P·P·O·W is pleased to announce the co-representation of Los Angeles-based artist Ishi Glinsky with Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles.
Palm Fronds and Car Parts: Assemblage Art in Los Angeles
The New York Times
September 11, 2023
The Hammer Museum’s biennial showcases several artists steeped in the scrappy art form, now flourishing in the city.
Me, Tracey Emin and the most remarkable artist I’d never heard of
The Sunday Times
September 10, 2023
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
Five Shows to See in New York During Armory Week
Frieze
September 8, 2023
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
Pepón Osorio Interviewed by Isabella Rafky
BOMB
September 7, 2023
Groundbreaking installations that feature health, women, and death.
This Week in Culture: September 4 – 10
Cultured Magazine
September 4, 2023
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.
How David Wojnarowicz Met the First Great Love of His Life
Another Magazine
September 4, 2023
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
Cantonese Cowboy
Morning Star
August, 2023
JAN WOOLF is sucked into a unique vision of the urban US from the perspective of immigrant and queer communities
11 Artists Having a Major Moment This Fall
Artsy
September 1, 2023
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.
The Surreal Nudes of Heji Shin
The New Yorker
August 25, 2023
Plus: The return of “Oldboy”; the maximalist visionary Pepón Osorio; the folksinger Iris DeMent; and more.
‘Dear Jean Pierre’ is a portrait of a young man on fire
Document Journal
August 25, 2023
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
10 Art Shows We Can’t Wait to See This Fall
Vulture
August 24, 2023
A wealth of dazzling exhibitions will renew your faith in art’s capacity to do more than mint money.
Prisoners, cruising and Bruce Lee: how the world caught up with artist Martin Wong
The Guardian
August 22, 2023
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?
"One Day This Boy...": How David Wojnarowicz Gave Me Life
ArtReview
August 3, 2023
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 Assembles Post-Industrial Cosmologies
Frieze
August 1, 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
Pepón Osorio Pushes the Bounds of Public Art
Smithsonian Magazine
July 31, 2023
The Puerto Rican artist emphasizes community in installations crafted from everyday objects
4 Must-See Art Exhibitions in New York This Summer
Design Milk
July 25, 2023
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.
Never Quite Together: Martin Wong
Spike
July 20, 2023
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.
What A.I.R. Gallery Taught Us
Something Curated
July 11, 2023
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.
P.P.O.W's Four Decades of Courage and Compassion in the Face of Crisis
Artsy
July 18, 2023
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.
The Artist’s Wounded Heart
The New York Times
July 13, 2023
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.
15 Art Shows to See in New York This July
Hyperallergic
July 11, 2023
This month: love, beauty, kink, and Purell bottles with works by Pepón Osorio, Kahlil Gibran, Gego, Susan Chen, and others.
Clementine Keith-Roach Mines the Ancient Past to Create Striking, Surrealist Sculptures
Galerie Magazine
July 10, 2023
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
Clément Delépine: ‘It’s time for culture to break down barriers’
Art Basel
July 10, 2023
The director of Paris+ par Art Basel unveils the highlights of the forthcoming 2023 edition
Six Times Right-Wing Groups Went After Artists
Hyperallergic
July 5, 2023
Throughout history, conservatives have consistently targeted artists creating works outside of their agenda.
How Graffiti Left a Mark on the Art Scene
Smithsonian Magazine
July/August 2023
Hip-hop’s street artists created a splashy new genre that burst into galleries and museums
Martin Wong: Malicious Mischief
Studio International
June 28, 2023
A survey of the Chinese American artist confirms him as one of the most unusual, ingenious and forceful painters of his time
The Many Lives of Martin Wong
ArtReview
June 27, 2023
The transgressive legacy of the late Chinese-American artist resists his subsequent commodification as a sanitised ‘unsung hero’ of gay art history
Artist Ishi Glinsky Listens to Los Angeles Dodgers Games While He Paints
Cultured Magazine
June 23, 2023
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 ARTnews Guide to Performance Art, Part 2: 1950s to the Present
ARTnews
June 23, 2023
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.
Martin Wong’s Paintings Are an Ethereal Exploration of Otherness
Another Magazine
June 21, 2023
Through his politically radical paintings, Martin Wong sought to highlight marginalised communities in late 20th-century San Francisco and New York
Martin Wong, the perennial outsider, answers back
Art Basel
June 21, 2023
John Yau remembers an inimitable artist who embraced his queerness, and wonders what he might say about his acceptance into the mainstream today
5 Late LGBTQ+ Artists Finally Getting Their Due
Artsy
June 9, 2023
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 to Represent Pepón Osorio
June 1, 2023
P·P·O·W is pleased to announce the representation of multi-disciplinary artist Pepón Osorio
25 Pathbreaking Asian American Artists Whose Names You Need to Know
ARTnews
May 27, 2023
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.
Editor’s Picks: Isabel Waidner’s Hotly Anticipated New Novel
Frieze
May 26, 2023
Other highlights include a collection of poetry and ephemera by US writer John Wieners and a beautiful monograph of the Scottish painter Carole Gibbons.
The best patios to eat and drink on in Boston for Memorial Day Weekend
TimeOut
May 26, 2023
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.
10 New Artist Auction Records Set in May 2023
Artsy
May 25, 2023
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.
Guadalupe Maravilla Transforms a School Bus into an Immersive Installation for Sound-Based Healing
Colossal
May 25, 2023
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.
BRICKS AND MARTYRS
The World of Interiors
May 22, 2023
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
P·P·O·W Gallery's Founders Wanted to Stay Radical. Now, a New Generation Is Holding Them to It
Cultured Magazine
May 18, 2023
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.
3 Shows by Female Artists to See in NYC This Spring
Art and Object
May 17, 2023
As the blooms of spring emerge, so does a fresh wave of artistic brilliance in the heart of New York City.
An Upstart Fair Focused on Art from the 1970s to Open Amid the Cram of Frieze Week
Artnews
May 16, 2023
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.
At Christie’s ‘21st Century’ Auction, the Sound of Records Breaking for Women
New York Times
May 15, 2023
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.
Chiffon Thomas by Troy Montes Michie
Bomb Magazine
May 15, 2023
Transfiguring discarded architectural parts and detritus into new bodies for an alternative, boundless world, Chiffon Thomas rebuilds from rubble.
Leading artists get to work on coronation-inspired artworks following art collection commission
Gov.uk
May 13, 2023
A selection of leading British and British-based artists have begun work on artworks reflecting on the Coronation.
The Melodrama of Kyle Dunn’s Night Pictures
Elephant
May 13, 2023
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.
Dreams and nightmares abound at New York's Independent art fair
The Art Newspaper
May 12, 2023
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.
Naked and unafraid
Art Basel
May 11, 2023
Art history is filled with nakedness. To be specific, it’s filled with naked women depicted by men.
Kyle Dunn’s Night Fever
Vulture
May 11, 2023
Ten paintings. Each engaging; each mysterious; each stranger than the next.
Sculpture makes a comeback at the Independent Art Fair
Financial Times
May 10, 2023
Lighting Queer Shadows: Night Pictures
Office Magazine
May 9, 2023
In his newest exhibition showing at the PPOW Gallery, Brooklyn based artist Kyle Dunn captures moments of quiet and sublime intimacy between men.
Independent New York 2023 Offers Fresh Perspectives
Whitewall
May 8, 2023
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: Night Pictures
Brooklyn Rail
May 8, 2023
Kyle Dunn’s Night Pictures offers quiet, intimate scenes that hum with depth.
Art of embroidery is an extension of personal identity in 'Strings of Desire'
STIR World
May 7, 2023
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.
The Artsy Advisor Notebook: May 2023
Artsy
May 5, 2023
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 Gwangju Biennale charts uncertain new waters
Apollo Magazine
May 5, 2023
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.
These paintings depict a complex, shadowy view of masculinity
Dazed
May 5, 2023
Kyle Dunn’s new exhibition, Night Pictures, studies a single queer protagonist in their most personal and contemplative moments.
Kyle Dunn’s shadowy exuberance
Two Coats of Paint
May 4, 2023
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 to Represent Grace Carney & Mosie Romney
May 4, 2023
P·P·O·W is pleased to announce the representation of Grace Carney and Mosie Romney.
Martin Wong at Berlin’s KW Institute review — Californian psychedelia meets Asian mysticism
Financial Times
May 2, 2023
The Chinese-American artist emerges as a painter of urban decay who mashed together social and magical realism
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The Artists Trending This April
Artsy
April 28, 2023
“Trending Now” is a monthly series focused on the artists with a significant growth in followers on Artsy from one month to the next.
The 14th Gwangju Biennale Repeats Planetary Themes for a Reason
Ocula
April 26, 2023
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.
Painter Martin Wong’s ‘Malicious Mischief’ Surveyed in Striking Berlin Retrospective
Art in America
April 26, 2023
“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.
Art Industry News: A Monumental Louise Bourgeois ‘Spider’ Could Rake in $40 Million at Sotheby’s + Other Stories
Art Net
April 25, 2023
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 Andy Warhol Foundation Board Appoints Four New Members
Observer
April 25, 2023
The grant-giving foundation preserves Warhol's legacy through research, licensing and advancement of the visual arts.
10 Standout Artists at the 14th Gwangju Biennale
Artsy
April 24, 2023
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.
Her Scent Fills the Museum of Sex
New York Times
April 15, 2023
Marissa Zappas, who has made perfumes with sex workers and astrologers, is the nose behind an exhibit’s provocative new fragrance.
5 Artists on the Day Jobs That Helped Them Launch Their Careers
Artsy
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.
Water World: At a Charismatic and Incisive Gwangju Biennale, Artists Navigate Crises
Art News
April 10, 2023
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.
15 Art Shows to See in New York This Month
Hyperallergic
April 10, 2023
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.
Cinema and Studio: The Night Pictures of Kyle Dunn
Juxtapoz
April 6, 2023
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."
What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in April
New York Times
April 5, 2023
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 on Her Radical Teach-Ins and Vibrant Portraits of the Bronx
Art in America
April 4, 2023
Shellyne Rodriguez’s exhibition on view at P·P·O·W in New York through April 22 functions as a kind of curriculum.
Adam Putnam
Artforum
April, 2023
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.
The Myth of Agency Around Artists’ Signatures
Hyperallergic
March 31, 2023
In an art world built on shifting sands, artists’ signatures become symbols of agency for some, and relics of the past for others.
New Directions May Emerge
e-flux
March 30, 2023
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.
18 Things We Can’t Wait to Do This Spring and Early Summer
Boston Magazine
March 30, 2023
A highly subjective list of the concerts, festivals, exhibits, plays, and experiences you shouldn't miss this season.
22 Best Art Exhibits & Installations In NYC Right Now And Coming Soon
Secret NYC
March 27, 2023
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.
Five Exhibitions to See in Europe This Spring
Frieze
March 24, 2023
Martin Wong, a queer Chinese American with ranchero flair, was a dynamo of the downtown New York art scene in the 1980s.
Guadalupe Maravilla Invites You on a Healing Journey
Frieze
March 22, 2023
At his upcoming show at ICA Watershed, Boston, the artist transports his audience using the power of sound baths.
Martin Wong’s Psychedelic Storefront Reopens for a New Generation
Frieze
March 22, 2023
On the occasion of the artist’s first major retrospective outside of the US, Travis Diehl considers the 1985 painting ‘Untitled (Green Storefront)’
Martin Wong’s “Malicious Mischief”
E-Flux Criticism
March 22, 2023
In depicting a disappeared America, Wong’s retrospective holds a mirror to the lost world which surrounds KW itself.
10 Women Who Found Freedom in Their Art
Cultured Magazine
March 22, 2023
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.
Get in Some Culture and Selfies at the Coolest Art Exhibits in NYC
Thrillist
February 17, 2023
These new NYC art exhibits and immersive experiences have it all: Iconic fashion, Megan Thee Stallion, and trippy aesthetics.
Art shows to leave the house for this February 2023
Dazed
February 7, 2023
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.
Inside Tribeca's Community-Driven Gallery Scene
Artsy
September 26, 2022
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.
Tribeca And Noho's Best Exhibitions An Equinox Excursion October 2022 - Ilka Scobie
Artlyst
September 25, 2022
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.
Chiffon Thomas
The New Yorker
September 24, 2022
In this breathtaking exhibition, Thomas’s alchemical, history-laden work stands, in part, as a metaphor for trans embodiment and personal reconfiguration.
2023 Gwangju Biennale Names Initial Artist List, Including Latifa Echakhch, Christine Sun Kim, Guadalupe Maravilla, and More
ARTnews
September 21, 2022
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.”
Imperialist Violence Undergirds Hew Locke’s Majestic Met Museum Facade Sculptures
Hyperallergic
September 16, 2022
The Guyanese-British artist’s commission for the museum was created in a tense dialogue with collection objects that are connected to conquest.
Hew Locke’s Symbolic Gold Trophies Hoisted in Met Facade Commission
Ocula
September 16, 2022
The commission's title, Gilt, puns on the motivation for art world scrambling to account for centuries of pillaging.
A New Book Featuring David Wojnarowicz’s Letters to a French Lover Promises to Be Sexy
Into
September 15, 2022
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.
The Eyes Have It in Hew Locke’s Power-Challenging Show
The New York Times
September 15, 2022
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”).
‘Funny, Sexy and Alarming’: Carolee Schneemann’s Holy Trinity
ArtReview
September 15, 2022
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
Carolee Schneemann’s Traces of Collision
Frieze
September 14, 2022
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’
Carolee Schneemann, Body Politics Review
Culture Whisper
September 14, 2022
Body Politics, a comprehensive retrospective of Carolee Schneemann’s work, gives an intense account of the versatile American artist’s vision and art
With Graphic Works on Sex and Inequality, a New Show Addresses Artistic Censorship
Artsy
September 13, 2022
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.
52 Artists Challenges the Meaning of “Women’s Art”
Hyperallergic
September 13, 2022
What most stands out for me about 52 Artists at the Aldrich Contemporary is the sense of both engaging with and resisting categories.
Double Take: “52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone” at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Art in America
September 13, 2022
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.
An Artist's Illness Inspires a Meditation on the Power of Pain
Hyperallergic
September 12, 2022
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: The Radical Realities of Carolee Schneemann
FAD Magazine
September 12, 2022
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.
Four Artists and Writers on the Transgressive Art of Carolee Schneemann
AnOther
September 12, 2022
As a new retrospective opens at the Barbican in London, four artists, writers and editors speak on Carolee Schneemann’s playful, pioneering artistic legacy
Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics; Marcus Coates: The Directors – review
The Guardian
September 11, 2022
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
Urgent Call for Donations
September 11, 2022
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.
The Jewish Museum Examines a Pivotal Period for Art and Culture in New York: 1962–1964
Hyperallergic
September 9, 2022
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.
ART REVIEW: Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics – Barbican, London
The Reviews Hub
September 9, 2022
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.
6 Artists at Independent 20th Century That Expand the Art Historical Canon
Artsy
September 8, 2022
This week, as The Armory Show once again whirs to life, roving crowds of collectors will descend upon the Javits Center.
More Than 90 Art Shows and Exhibitions to See This Fall
The New York Times
September 8, 2022
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.
Smeared with mackerel, chased by police: the wild, miraculous art of Carolee Schneemann – review
The Guardian
September 7, 2022
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
Portia Munson
Artillery Magazine
September 6, 2022
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.
Snakes, scrolls, swinging from chandeliers: how Carolee Schneemann transformed art
The Guardian
September 6, 2022
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
12 Museum Exhibitions to See Now Feature Sam Gilliam, Billy Zangewa, Deana Lawson, Isaac Julien, Young Fashion Photographers, Memphis Metal Workers & More
Culture Type
September 1, 2022
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.
In Print: The State of Sculpture
Art in America
August 31, 2022
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.
Carolee Schneemann’s Traces of Collision
Frieze
August 31, 2022
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’
2022 Colene Brown Art Prize Recipients
BRIC
August 30, 2022
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.
Stupendous things to do in the City of London in September
City Matters
August 25, 2022
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.
Take Me To Church
Forbes
August 24, 2022
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.
Fall abundance makes for an exciting visual art season
Datebook
August 24, 2022
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.
The Opening Blow: Bad Reviews: An Artists' Book by 150 Artists Reviewed by Nick Irvin
Bomb Magazine
August 24, 2022
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.
Censored: the exhibitions that Instagram doesn't want you to see
The Art Newspaper
August 23, 2022
Galleries and artists are Increasingly finding themselves at the centre of heavy-handed suppression on the social media platform
Watch: The Evolution of Carnegie International
ArtReview
August 22, 2022
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?
The joy of mending things
BBC
August 22, 2022
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
Winslow Homer, Cézanne and Zaha Hadid: the best art and architecture of autumn 2022
The Guardian
August 22, 2022
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’
Art review: Space, ICA mark anniversaries with exemplary shows
Press Herald
August 21, 2022
The Portland gallery and the institute at Maine College of Art & Design are respectively celebrating 20 and 25 years since opening.
Gut Feelings: Two Days Inside Hermann Nitsch’s Gory Masterpiece, The Six Day Play
Cultured
August 18, 2022
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.
First UK Survey of Carolee Schneemann to Be Presented by Barbican Art Gallery
Widewalls
August 18, 2022
Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics is also the first major exhibition since the progressive artist’s death.
‘Daisies’: Two Wild and Crazy Gals
The New York Times
August 17, 2022
The Czechoslovak New Wave film “Daisies” features an insolent pair of young girls determined to be as “spoiled” as the world.
Resurrecting the Forgotten Art of the AIDS Era
The New York Times
August 17, 2022
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.
Best Museum Bathrooms in the US, Ranked
Hyperallergic
August 11, 2022
Let’s be honest: On a best bathrooms list, no one wants to be number two.
Five radical works by pioneering artist Carolee Schneemann
Dazed
August 10, 2022
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
Review: Artist Portia Munson Takes on Modern Feminism at PPOW Gallery
Observer
August 9, 2022
Artist Portia Munson's recent solo show at PPOW Gallery takes on feminist aesthetics and if we have ultimately missed something.
Art shows to leave the house for this August
Dazed
August 8, 2022
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
P·P·O·W Introduces the David Wojnarowicz Foundation on the 30th Anniversary of the Artist's Death
Widewalls
August 5, 2022
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.
A "Fantastic" New Show Celebrates the Black Diaspora
Artsy
August 5, 2022
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.
Stepping Into the Expansive Worlds of Black Imagination
The New York Times
August 4, 2022
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.
What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now
The New York Times
August 4, 2022
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.
Brilliant Things to Do This August
AnOther
August 2, 2022
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
“One Day This Kid” Project Commemorates the 30th Anniversary of David Wojnarowicz’s Death
Hyperallergic
August 1, 2022
PPOW Gallery and the David Wojnarowicz Foundation launched an interactive project dedicated to the artist’s iconic photo-text collage.
When New York Ruled the World
The New Yorker
August 1, 2022
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 Concise New York Art Guide for August 2022
Hyperallergic
August 1, 2022
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.
Editors’ Picks: 11 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From Andy Warhol’s ‘Chelsea Girls’ to Kesh’s Verdant Videos in Times Square
Artnet News
August 1, 2022
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.
The Past and Future of Afrofuturism
ArtReview
July 29, 2022
From the moment of its inception, the genre has been concerned with the promise and peril of breaking from modernity
‘More than UB40 and heavy metal’: Birmingham’s alternative arts and entertainment
The Guardian
July 29, 2022
The Commonwealth Games has kickstarted an explosion of culture in England’s second city, with loads to look at and listen to, as well as eat and drink
IN THE BLACK FANTASTIC AT HAYWARD GALLERY
FAD Magazine
July 29, 2022
In the Black Fantastic is a magical, fantastical exhibition featuring 11 contemporary artists from the African diaspora; Nick Cave, Sedrick Chisom, Ellen Gallagher, Hew Locke, Wangechi Mutu, Rashaad Newsome, Chris Ofili, Tabita Rezaire, Cauleen Smith, Lina Iris Viktor and Kara Walker.
Sister acts: when the avant garde met feminism – in pictures
The Guardian
July 27, 2022
With 200 works by 71 female artists, a new exhibition of pioneering photography was ‘too quiet and poetic’ to be properly appreciated in the 1970s
4 Surprises in New York Galleries This Summer
Design Milk
July 26, 2022
A double-exhibition at P·P·O·W Gallery offers a great solo exhibition and access to a space the public has never before entered.
Editors’ Picks: 12 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From the Watermill Gala to a Puppet Show Operated by a Crane
Artnet News
July 25, 2022
Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events, both digitally and in-person in the New York area. See our picks from around the world below. (Times are all ET unless otherwise noted.)
The filmmaker behind Wojnarowicz: F*ck You F*ggot F*cker discusses why the late artist’s politically confrontational work is more relevant than ever.
Commemorating the 30th anniversary of David Wojnarowicz’s death
The Art Newspaper
July 22, 2022
The pioneering American artist left behind a legacy of art as a form of gay rights activism; today, with regressive reproductive laws and the Monkeypox vaccine crisis affecting the queer community, his work proves its timelessness
Announcing The David Wojnarowicz Foundation
July 22, 2022
P·P·O·W is proud to introduce The David Wojnarowicz Foundation. In the 30 years since his life was cut short, the voice of David Wojnarowicz has continued to resonate in museums, galleries, classrooms, protests, and visual celebrations of beauty and defiance and love. The Foundation's work begins with the launch of a dynamic website celebrating David's work and legacy. We welcome you in exploring this growing resource and beginning a relationship with the Foundation and its mission in the years to come.
When ‘New Art’ Made New York the Culture Capital
The New York Times
July 21, 2022
Artists in the early 1960s drew from a heady mix: Mad magazine and Marilyn; the civil rights movement and the death of a president; queer bodies and “Pieta.” It’s all at the Jewish Museum.
Saturated with objects but also different colors and emotions, the installations by American artist Portia Munson reflect her interest in systems and structured formations. For several decades already, she has been combining sculpture, installation, painting, and digital photography, to explore consumerism from the feminist and environmentalist lens.
P·P·O·W Announces Tribeca Expansion
July 19, 2022
P·P·O·W is pleased to announce the opening of an additional gallery in Tribeca, on the second floor of 390 Broadway, adjacent to its primary gallery.
R.I.P. Hunter Reynolds, an Artist and Activist Who Explored AIDS and Gender
POZ
July 18, 2022
An HIV-positive gay man who performed as Patina du Prey, Hunter Reynolds was a member of ACT UP. Here’s his latest art book.
Image of the Day
Elephant
July 18, 2022
A take-a-seat start to the week, courtesy of British artist Clementine Keith Roach and one of her latest works, titled Nuptials.
Stop tearing down controversial statues, says British-Guyanan artist Hew Locke
The Spectator
July 16, 2022
The artist, who has wrapped a statue of Victoria in a wooden ship in Birmingham, prefers a retain and explain approach
With the Bodies of This World
Dovetail Mag
July 15, 2022
While the early morning of this un-historic summer day was filled with white fog, the afternoon is embracing the lushness of the green, flickering countryside, the grey rural roads, and me, a slow country road driver on my way to Portia Munson’s studio, in the magic of the golden light.
Hew Locke with Emann Odufu
The Brooklyn Rail
July 15, 2022
Guyanese British artist Hew Locke is at a pivotal moment in his thirty-plus year career as a fine artist.
Art review: Akron exhibit ‘Reflections on Perceptions’ shines with creativity
Akron Beacon Journal
July 14, 2022
It’s difficult to truly understand where ideas originate. Even well-documented moments in history like the invention of the telephone or the light bulb get rehashed and retold in new and different ways. We are often left wondering what spurred the ideas into reality and what helped to make the different mental connections.
A Series Spotlights NY’s Underground Art and Cinema in the Early 1960s
Hyperallergic
July 14, 2022
Focused on the years 1962–1964, a program by Film at Lincoln Center pairs with a Jewish Museum exhibition and a survey at Film Forum.
Add Your Own Face to This Iconic Artwork From a Gay AIDS Activist
POZ
July 11, 2022
Artist David Wojnarowicz died 30 years ago. A childhood photo of yourself can now be part of his LGBTQ-themed poster “One Day This Kid.”
An Expansive New Show Celebrates Five Decades of Feminist Art
Artsy
July 8, 2022
At the beginning of the 1970s, American artists were demanding more equitable representation in institutional shows. Organizations such as the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition and the Ad Hoc Committee of Women Artists staged protests over the Whitney Museum’s omission of Black and women artists in their exhibitions.
Martin Wong’s Chains of Desire
Evergreen Review
July 8, 2022
Throughout the trendy, catchword-ridden East Village scene of the 1980s, Martin Wong’s work defied categorization. While others painted anxious figures in broad strokes and strident colors, he rendered his meticulous urban landscapes in a muted palette dominated by umbers, blacks, and rusty reds.
In the studio with… Hew Locke
Apollo Magazine
July 5, 2022
The sculptures of Hew Locke turn the symbols of state power – from coats of arms to naval vessels, public statues and royal portraits – into tools for examining the ways in which societies the world over have fashioned their identities, often under the shadow of colonialism.
Hunter Reynolds, Artist Who Dressed Up AIDS, Dies at 62
The New York Times
July 3, 2022
One night in 1989, Hunter Reynolds, then a 30-year-old artist living in New York City, made himself up at home with the help of a friendly drag queen. He was intrigued with the results: his handsome face embellished and transformed, neither man nor woman, like an androgynous cabaret star in Berlin during the Weimar years. He tossed on a tweed coat and headed out to various art-world events. Friends didn’t recognize him, so he pretended to be a performance artist visiting from Los Angeles.
Artist Elizabeth Glaessner Creates Dreamy, Emotionally-Charged Landscapes
Galerie Magazine
July 1, 2022
Filled with enigmatic figures and abstract pools of jewel tones, the rising star's paintings are coveted by collectors everywhere
NEW YORK, NY.- P·P·O·W is presenting Made to Be Broken, a site-specific exhibition curated by artist Corey Durbin. Installed underneath P·P·O·W, Made to Be Broken features new works by Daniel Barragán, Caroline Boreri, Corey Durbin, Yves B Golden, Carly Mandel, Hayley Cranberry Small, and Cameron Spratley.
Our ‘At home with’ interview series explores what creatives are making, what’s making them tick, and the moments that made them. This time, we step over the threshold with Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke
The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh has announced the full list of participating artists for the 58th Carnegie International exhibition, which opens in Pittsburgh on 24 September.
P.P.O.W. is opening up their unfinished basement this weekend for a group show curated by Corey Durbin …
The Carnegie International in Pittsburgh, the oldest biennial-style show in the U.S., has revealed the artist list for its 2022 edition, which is due to kick off at the Carnegie Museum of Art on September 24.
Organizers of the Carnegie International today released the names of the artists who will be participating in the event’s fifty-eighth edition, to take place from September 24, 2022 to April 2, 2023, across various venues in Pittsburgh. Curated by Sohrab Mohebbi, the exhibition is titled “Is It Morning for You Yet?”
The 58th edition will feature 150 artists, creative collectives, and institutional collections.
Noting the ‘documentary form’ as of relevance to the historicisation of the LGBTQ+ movement, these artists bring the image towards the evidentiary.
Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events, both digitally and in-person in the New York area. See our picks from around the world below.
Inside the Benenson Center’s Newmark Gallery, a 15-foot-wide blue backyard swimming pool is filled, not with water, but with thousands of found plastic artifacts, organized by graduated shades of blue. The centerpiece of “Flood,” a new exhibit by artist Portia Munson, “Reflecting Pool” (2013) displays the detritus of the plastic era.
The artist realized what he previously called an “impossible proposal,” building a ship around a public statue of Queen Victoria, where she’s joined by five smaller replicas of herself.
We asked our friend Simon de Pury to give us a lay of the land and to offer a peek into what's on offer.
As the new exhibition WORLDBUILDING: Gaming and Art in the Digital Age opens, curator Hans Ulrich Obrist discusses the growing role of video games in our everyday lives
He has been exploring ships, slavery and statues for decades – and now the world has finally caught up. As Locke unveils the boat he has built in Birmingham, he talks us through his ‘bloody exhausting’ workload
Hunter Reynolds, an artist and activist whose expansive work influenced generations and poignantly reflected on the immense loss wrought by the AIDS crisis and took on that era’s homophobia, died on June 12 at his home in New York’s East Village. He was 62.
The Dow dropped 800 points, the S&P 500 fell into bear market territory, Bitcoin hit an 18-month low, and inflation concerns continued to stoke fears about an oncoming recession, but you wouldn’t have known that financial chaos was raging at Tuesday’s VIP opening of Art Basel in Basel.
Artist couple Clementine Keith-Roach and Christopher Page bring their vision of human interaction to PPOW gallery.
The organizers of the forthcoming ART SG in Singapore announced the more than 150 galleries that will participate in its inaugural edition, scheduled to run January 11–15 at the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre.
NEW YORK, NY.- P·P·O·W and the Hunter Reynolds Estate are deeply saddened to announce that Hunter Reynolds, influential artist, activist, and dear friend, passed away peacefully on June 12, 2022 at his home in the East Village surrounded by loyal friends. He was 62 years old.
Art Basel returns to Switzerland in full swing, held at Messe Basel from June 16—19 with support from UBS. Exhibited across platforms like Galleries, Features, Statements, and Editions, the fair’s 289 presenting galleries are bringing a range of works by contemporary creators and rare and historical marvels. The fair also encompasses a series of large-scale works in the Unlimited sector, site-specific projects in Parcours, and a program encompassing talks, films, and other special happenings.
Our picks of the must-see seasonal outdoor and indoor exhibitions, from Wangechi Mutu and Brandon Ndife at the Storm King Art Center to Frank Stella at The Ranch
Today, Martin Wong (1946–1999) is undoubtedly best known as an unwavering chronicler of a bygone era in New York’s Loisaida neighborhood, his meticulous renderings of the material world’s seemingly inconsequential details, like brick walls or chain-wire fencing, and, of course, his adaptation of the fingerspelling gestures used in American Sign Language.
Sprüth Magers to open in New York; Art Basel galleries put spotlight on refugees; offer for MCH spin-off; Miami museum buys Nam June Paik work
Upon seeing Dinh Q. Lê’s work, one’s instinctive reaction is often to move closer. Lê’s meticulous photo-weaving process, inspired by Vietnamese grass mat weaving, creates intricate collages of found images that tie identities, histories, and memories engrossed in conflict and displacement.
It’s not new for an artwork to state its queer allusions so clearly. But as collectors of LGBTQIA+ art are becoming more numerous, and (in the West in particular) queer artists are becoming more visible in museum shows, galleries are an important part of the puzzle in supporting these artists. How are dealers working to represent the varied practices of LGBTQ artists today?
“52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone” revisits the practices and artists of the Ridgefield, Connecticut museum's seminal 1971 feminist art show, Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists," and brings new voices into the conversation.
Female deities, demons, and religious figures have been a source of artistic inspiration for centuries. Yet all too often, their image and stories have fallen victim to a prurient male gaze and patriarchal ideas of womanhood.
Guadalupe Maravilla’s Tierra Blanca Joven at the Brooklyn Museum consists of “Disease Throwers”—large sculptures that function as healing sound baths, a curation of Mayan artifacts from the museum’s collection, video performance, and a community healing room.
Four legs in a garden—Glaessner’s first exhibition in a French institutional context—is hung luxuriously under Le Consortium’s vast 12-meter ceiling in their monumental White Box gallery. The show’s general similarity benefits from this grandeur and includes three new works of paths and party scenes that were created specifically for the exhibition site. Though some of the canvases are small, they all uses the electric hues of a Fauvist palette.
Depictions of the British sovereign, one of the most painted women in history, reflect the changing status of the monarchy over more than half a century
Few artists have had as much of an impact on representational painting as Judith Linhares. For the years between MarciaTucker’s “Bad” Painting (1978) at the New Museum and Linhares’s inclusion in Frieze by Anglim Gilbert Gallery in 2018, she was a painter well-known by other figurative painters and the generations of students she taught at the School of Visual Arts, but her gallery representation didn’t properly reflect her influence.
These university museum leaders are bridging cultural chasms through elaborate and generative work with their students.
52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone celebrates the fifty-first anniversary of the historic exhibition Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists, curated by Lucy R. Lippard and presented at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Conn., in 1971. Opening on June 6, 2022, 52 Artists will showcase work by the artists included in the original 1971 exhibition, alongside a new roster of twenty-six female identifying or nonbinary emerging artists, tracking the evolution of feminist art practices over the past five decades.
Want to see new art in New York this weekend? Start on the Upper East Side with Evelyn Statsinger’s enthralling paintings at Gray New York. Then head to Chelsea for a rare chance to see Michaël Borremans’s work at David Zwirner.- And don’t miss Tommy Malekoff’s indelible video images shot in the Everglades.
“Basquiat is not just an artist; for a lot of the people out there, he’s a religion,” one dealer said. But Wednesday there were plenty of newcomers to watch.
In the past few years, Tribeca has seen a resurgence as New York galleries depart districts like Chelsea and the Lower East Side for new digs, making this neighborhood one of the go-to spots for art in the city. A heady brew of art enterprises has formed as a result: relatively young art spaces now exist side-by-side with Tribeca veterans like Postmasters Gallery and apexart, and edgy shows by artists on the rise can be found just blocks from ones by more established talent.
One couple is helping Atlanta’s High Museum of Art to fill gaps and correct biases in its collection.
From Genesis P-Orridge at Pioneer Works to Louise Bourgeois at the Met, our pick of the best exhibitions in the city this week
Women inhabit their bodies on their own terms in Judith Linhares’s paintings, rendered in the color-loaded, wet-into-wet strokes of the artist’s signature wide brush.
Last year, the Ford Foundation and Mellon Foundation, two of the country’s largest philanthropic funders in the arts, joined forces to establish the Latinx Artist Fellowship, which will support the work of 75 Latinx artists at various stages in their careers over a five-year period.
What makes an image queer? What constitutes a queer history? Ryan Patrick Krueger’s debut solo exhibition, “On Longing,” invoked these questions and explored what’s at stake in their answers through five works (all 2022) that contain and reframe vernacular photographs of coupled men between whom some form of affection can be discerned.
Alive with personified creatures and borrowed symbols, Astrid Terrazas’s canvases function like tarot cards, hazy assemblages of meanings that orbit an iconic core.
The artist, who fled the violence of the civil war in El Salvador as a child, incorporates ritual gongs into his sculptures, on view in the show “Tierra Blanca Joven,” at the Brooklyn Museum.
Guadalupe Maravilla's practice and resulting artworks centre mostly on healing as an individual and societal tool to overcome trauma, drawing from his background as a child of war and experiences as a cancer survivor to build spaces focused on communal care and healing across generations.
Fixing a set of emerald-green and darkly mesmerizing eyes on the camera for a 2022 video in this exhibition, Tiamat Legion Medusa, the titular subject of the piece, asserts, “I don’t want to die looking like a human.”
It was terrifying, but there was so much beauty and magic.
That's how the artist Guadalupe Maravilla describes much of his life. And it could also be said for his work — looming sculptures and haunting sound art — exhibitions of which are currently being shown at the Museum of Modern Art and the Brooklyn Museum in New York.
Hew Locke discusses his grand commission for Tate Britain, a poetic work of sculpture examining colonial legacy, global finance and the human bodies at the end of the paper trail
The Salvadoran artist talks to Aruna D’Souza about retracing his childhood migration through Central America and Mexico, collectively healing trauma and performing in the dark
New York Art Week, which runs May 5th through 12th, is the latest evolution in the city’s always mercurial art fair scene. In the past, major fairs have spawned numerous satellite events, and organizations across the city have tried to capitalize on the monied collectors who flock here for the marquee events. New York Art Week is a unique endeavor in that it’s the first attempt to bring together many of these actors under one banner with a focused mission.
In memory of Stephanie, and in honor of Alejandro.
The book Gay Propaganda, edited by Masha Gessen, was published in January of 2014, on the eve of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, and right before the invasion of Crimea. It collects personal accounts of LGBTQ+ life in Russia in response to the laws criminalizing public discussions of homosexuality and banning LGBTQ+ couples from adopting children. Every speech that Putin currently makes justifying the new invasion of Ukraine has railed against "so called gender freedoms," equating basic human dignity to a decadent luxury such as oysters or foie gras.
A new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum showcases the work of multidisciplinary artist Guadalupe Maravilla, the first contemporary Central American artist to have a solo show at the Museum.
The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation embarks on its first book with artists like Claudia Rankine, Mel Chin, Mierle Laderman Ukeles supplying words and curator Anjuli Nanda leading the charge.
Carolee Schneemann created some of the most famous works of performance art of the twentieth century – including the genuinely iconic 'Interior Scroll' - and is long overdue a proper celebration.
In October 1981, the artist David Wojnarowicz, then 27, went to the countryside with his new friend and eventual lover, the photographer Peter Hujar. While there, he caught a snake. This fact is perfectly mundane, but it is rendered breathtaking at PPOW Gallery where you can read about the trip in Wojnarowicz’s handwritten postcard to his then-lover Jean-Pierre Delage and then look up from the glass case where the postcard lies to see a Hujar photo of the event: Wojnarowicz, shirtless in black and white, staring straight into the lens, exposing his two big front teeth in a smile while the snake hangs from his hand like an upside-down “J.”
El artista salvadoreño Guadalupe Maravilla ha convertido dos salas del museo Henie Onstad de Oslo en un manifiesto a favor de los poderes curativos del arte. Sound Botánica, su primera gran exposición individual en Europa, explora cómo la pintura o la instalación pueden enfrentarse a la enfermedad y el trauma, al tiempo que revisten el centro expositivo de un aura espiritual.
I tend to treat painting as a personal folktale journal, and that helps keep me interested. I like to story tell what’s happening in my life in a non-direct way–casting a light haze on the actual happenings of my life and community within invented or fantastical worlds. The intent is to create different stages of consciousness, a dreamlike fluidity that connects past and present. Similar to a dream, the meaning is understood only if looked at peripherally.
In his work, Danh Vo proposes that you don’t necessarily have to have made an object in order to call it your own. The very typewriter that the Unabomber used to pen his manifestos was included in his 2018 Guggenheim Museum retrospective, as was a chair used by a member of the Kennedy administration. Neither of these objects would have been out of place in a history museum. In Vo’s hands, however, they become art.
Over 40 donors supported the climate action led by Galleries Commit and Art to Acres, which will see nearly 200,000 acres preserved
The fair’s ninth chapter comes after a two-year hiatus and boasts an ambitious programming throughout the city
The artist's new Tate Britain Commission is a blazingly ambitious cavalcade of humanity, melding past and present, joy and pain
Guyanese-British artist will create four sculptures that draw on the New York museum's collection
If there was one phrase uttered more than any other at Thursday’s opening of EXPO Chicago, it was “great energy.” The art, the booths, and most of all the fair itself were suffused with it, according to both gallerists and visitors. That attitude might not be surprising considering this is the first time the event has returned to the city’s Navy Pier since fall 2019—both 2020 and 2021 in-person events were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
One of the artists, Tiamat Legion Medusa, is transforming into a dragon.
The Guyanese-British artist will create four sculptures shaped into whole and fragmented trophies that reference historical works in the museum’s collection.
Guadalupe Maravilla’s sculptures at the Brooklyn Museum and MoMA explore the trauma caused by war, migration and family separation.
Plus, a new show at PPOW explores David Wojnarowicz’s first love, and Philadelphia Museum of Art workers stage a rally.
In the new issue of Elephant, writer Precious Adesina meets the British artist Hew Locke, whose work has long challenged viewers to look and think again about the world that surrounds them.
A show at PPOW gallery explores the artist and author’s first significant relationship, with Jean Pierre Delage, which liberated him emotionally and changed him artistically.
Hew Locke’s new installation at Tate Britain shows 150 full-sized figures on a journey through history
A new exhibition at New York’s PPOW Gallery displays David Wojnarowicz’s letters to his former lover Jean Pierre – here, his biographer Cynthia Carr talks about his tender, furious artistic legacy
A new large-scale installation by Hew Locke, "The Procession" features nearly 150 life-sized figures outfitted in hand-made garments and masks.
In a major new commission for the Tate museum group in London, the British-Guyanese artist returns to the themes of empire and postcolonial reckoning that have fascinated him throughout his career.
David Wojnarowicz’s final home was on the corner of Second Avenue and Twelfth Street on the Lower East Side. He moved in after the prior tenant, his mentor and former lover Peter Hujar, died of AIDS. A few months later, in 1988, David was diagnosed with AIDS himself; he’d die in the Second Avenue apartment four years later at the age of thirty-seven.
The Procession, installed in the Duveen Galleries, references the museum's historic links to the sugar industry and slavery
Ambitious, accomplished and fascinating, this incredible piece features 150 figures in masks and hand-sewn costumes journeying through Tate Britain
New work evokes ideas of pilgrimage, migration, trade, carnival, protest and social celebrations
There’s a post-colonial, anti-capitalist carnival happening at Tate Britain. And if that doesn’t sound like much fun, that’s because it isn’t. It’s serious.
Locke’s new work The Procession is a coming together of ideas he’s been exploring for nearly 30 years - and now people are talking about them
Tate Britain today unveiled The Procession, a major new installation by artist Hew Locke, the latest in the gallery’s ongoing series of annual commissions. Locke has taken over Tate Britain’s monumental Duveen Galleries with almost 150 life-sized figures – staging a powerful, unsettling and fantastical procession. Intricately hand-made, and bold in its use of colour, this extraordinary installation assembles a myriad of images and materials. It is Locke’s most ambitious project to date, bringing together themes he has explored throughout his career.
Brooklyn-based tapestry artist Erin M. Riley has been weaving pieces that speak on issues faced by women for over ten years. Her work addresses dark themes, raising awareness and promoting recovery for those who have faced issues including violence, self-harm, objectification, or are struggling with their sexuality. Many of her tapestries are based on personal experience, imagery that she has plucked directly from her camera roll, or photos she has come across online.
Curator Michael Rooks advocates for love not war in new exhibition.
The notion of stories, bodies, and selves that change incrementally and radically as they repeat pervades the mesmerizing world of Glaessner’s Phantom Tail.
‘Collectors’ journeys into the homes of fledgling and seasoned art buyers from across the globe. The ongoing series offers an intimate spotlight on a range of personal collections from hobbyist ephemera to blue-chip artworks — all the while dissecting an individual’s specific taste, at-home curation and purchase trajectory.
NB: Can you share the origin of your name, Daze?
Daze: The origin story is funny and typical. It's very important to choose a name that will define you as you continue on; a name that no one else has at the same time.
The air is thick, you’re drifting through a hazy, uncertain world, and visibility is not on your side. Obscure humanlike figures move intentionally slow through abstract pools of color and light. You make out a hand, a fingernail, a toe, but the rest is unclear. Impossibly long limbs wrap you in a warm embrace, and you feel, perhaps for the first time, safe. There are no power structures, no capitalism, no gender, just primitive reflections of emotional states. As you saunter through psychological landscapes, these spirits guide you, divorce you from your mortality, and regenerate you in their making—one free of humanity, of guilt, and most of all, free of pain.
“The feelings that I want to convey … I don’t always have the words to describe,” explains painter Elizabeth Glaessner amidst the large, beautifully painted and somewhat mysterious canvases that make up her solo show at the P·P·O·W gallery in Lower Manhattan.
Plus, check out the latest edition of our Artnet Talks and see works by Brazilian artist Amelia Toledo.
A biographical detail about this Brooklyn-based artist sheds light on both the mythological anatomies and the amniotic quality of her bewitching new paintings: Glaessner was born with a protruding tailbone. In her current show, “Phantom Tail,” supernatural creatures—a deliquescent sphinx, a spidery humanoid in a turquoise pool—occupy worlds that are alternately smoldering and coolly luminescent.
UK-based sculptor Clementine Keith-Roach revisits the world of mythology to give shape to her sculptures as a means to reconstruct the narratives of past, present and future.
As debate over controversial monuments rages on, new project will be part of the Birmingham 2022 Festival culture programme linked to the Commonwealth Games
From a series of mesmerizing paintings by up-and-coming star Elizabeth Glaessner to Peter Moore's fascinating documentation of New York's performance art, these exhibitions are not to be missed
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month, including Kia LaBeija, Tenet, Hassan Sharif, and more.
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