Installation view: Sterling Ruby’s “Atropa” at Sprüth Magers in New York. Photo: Genevieve Hanson American artist Sterling Ruby has long engaged not only with the chaotic condition of…
Read more Sterling Ruby’s “Atropa” Is a Quiet But Profound Reflection on EntropyDean Majd. Photo: Zach Hussein For much of photography’s history, male portraiture preserved a degree of emotional distance, presenting men as stoic, authoritative and restrained. Dean Majd has…
Read more Dean Majd’s “Hard Feelings” Expands the Emotional Register of MasculinityMia Westerlund Roosen’s Heat (background) and Conical (foreground), both from 1981, on view at Nunu Fine Art. Photo: Martin Seck, courtesy the artist and Nunu Fine Art Multidisciplinary…
Read more Mia Westerlund Roosen’s Ongoing Material InquiryOscar Murillo. Photo by Tim Bowditch, courtesy the artist. Copyright © Oscar Murillo Those art aficionados who aren’t in Doha this week are likely in Mexico City for…
Read more Oscar Murillo Reflects On Building a Body of Work That Resists Linear TimeMorgan Buck, We’re the Only Winners, 2025. Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 31 inches. Photo: Mario Gallucci; Courtesy the artist and ILY2 These days, Morgan Buck doesn’t make…
Read more Morgan Buck Sees A.I. as a Rare Chance to Reimagine CreativityAlberto Giacometti, Silsersee (Lake Sils), 1921-1922, Oil on canvas, 50 x 61 cm. / 19 5/8 x 24 in. © Succession Alberto Giacometti / 2025, ProLitteris, Zurich, Bündner…
Read more In “Faces and Landscapes of Home,” Hauser & Wirth Brings Giacometti Back to Stampa“Henri Rousseau: A Painter’s Secrets” is on view at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia through February 22. Courtesy of the Barnes Foundation Henri Rousseau is primarily known for…
Read more Henri Rousseau, the Performative Naïf Who Outsmarted ModernityTransitions (2012) by Joan Semmel at the Jewish Museum in New York. Photo: Fred Voon for Observer In 1973, when no gallery in New York would show her…
Read more At 93, Joan Semmel Continues to Assert the Female GazeInstallation view: “Aiza Ahmed: The Music Room” at Sargent’s Daughters. Photo: Nicholas Knight, courtesy of Sargent’s Daughters, New York In a year defined by market calibration—especially on the…
Read more Aiza Ahmed Exposes the Fragile Theater Behind the Male GazeAs New York City continues its relentless march of cultural innovation, a new wave of artists, comedians, and performers is set to emerge in 2026. From budding comedians…
Read more 2026 PREVIEW: These are the rising New York stars of stage and screen to watch this new year – amNewYorkZoë Buckman’s “Who By Fire” is at Mindy Solomon through January 10, 2026. Photo: Zachary Balber Brooklyn-based Zoë Buckman has made her name through a bold approach to…
Read more Zoë Buckman’s Intimate Embroideries Claim Space for Memory, Grief and Jewish IdentityDENVER — Social media feeds are roaring with prehistoric T-shirt designs from ArtFair Apparel, a Colorado company dedicated to elevating local artists and sharing their unique stories to…
Read more From gallery to garment, Colorado company shines light on local artists through T-shirt salesTatiana Trouvé, Hors-sol, 2025. Part of “Tatiana Trouvé. The strange Life of Things” in Venice. © Tatiana Trouvé, by SIAE 2025 Ph. Marco Cappelletti and Giuseppe Miotto /…
Read more Don’t Miss: Tatiana Trouvé’s Maps of Memory and Collapse at Palazzo GrassiJoseph Wright of Derby, An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, 1768. The National Gallery Photographic Department A white cockatoo is on the verge of death…
Read more Joseph Wright of Derby’s Theater of Enlightenment at London’s National GalleryInstallation view: “Samuel Sarmiento: Relical Horn” at Andrew Edlin Gallery in New York. Courtesy of Andrew Edlin Gallery The ability of a given artwork to resist being stripped…
Read more Samuel Sarmiento’s Ceramics Channel Universal Memory in His U.S. DebutThe Truck Trio as shown in “Walter De Maria: The Singular Experience.” Courtesy Gagosian Earlier this month, Gagosian debuted a stunning show featuring the work of Walter de…
Read more Gagosian’s Kara Vander Weg On Shaping the Afterlife of an Artist’s WorkBalkan Erotic Epic is Abramović’s largest performance work to date, with a cast of more than 70 performers. Courtesy the artist More than two hours passed before I…
Read more Marina Abramovic’s Erotic Epic Spreads Wide (and Displays the Limits of) the Artist’s PsycheGretchen Andrew at work. Courtesy Gretchen Andrew There is a direct line between lip fillers and the techno-apocalypse, and Gretchen Andrew draws that line with her latest Universal…
Read more The Algorithm Thinks You’re Ugly: An Interview With Artist Gretchen Andrew“Eva Helene Pade: Søgelys” is at Thaddaeus Ropac in London through December 20, 2025. Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac gallery, London · Paris · Salzburg · Milan · Seoul .…
Read more Don’t Miss: Eva Helene Pade’s Choreography of Color and Desire at Thaddaeus RopacThrough her ceramic sculpture, the artist strikes world-weary sentiment into the eyes of nostalgically precious woodland creatures. Photos by Charles White. Courtesy of Josh Lilley. Wilshire Boulevard—one of…
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