Untitled Art, Houston Lines Up 95 Galleries for Sophomore Edition in October

Untitled Art, Houston will gather 95 galleries for its upcoming second edition, scheduled to run October 2–4, with a preview day on October 1, at the George R. Brown Convention…

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Slovakia’s Kunsthalle Bratislava Director Resigns as Culture Ministry Revokes Funding

The director of the Kunsthalle Bratislava resigned on Monday, the institution announced on Instagram. In the same post, Kunsthalle Bratislava shared that the Ministry of Culture has revoked funding for the institution’s 2024…

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In Maureen McCabe’s Art, the Medium Is the Message

The artist takes a mystical, magical journey through America’s supernatural…

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Artists Spar Over Credit For A Dress Displayed In The Met’s ‘Costume Art’ Exhibition

London based artist Anouska Samms has publicly accused the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s…

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What We Miss When We Flatten Georgia O’Keeffe Into a Feminist Icon

I winced when I got a press release for a…

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In Maureen McCabe’s Art, the Medium Is the Message

The artist takes a mystical, magical journey through America’s supernatural past in a retrospective at…

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From the Archives Victor Hugo Drawn to the Void

The drawings of Victor Hugo author of Les Misérables and Notre Dame de Paris among other novels, influential poet…

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What We Miss When We Flatten Georgia O’Keeffe Into a Feminist Icon

I winced when I got a press release for a new Georgia O’Keeffe documentary to…

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Gio Mondelli: A Journey Through Symbolism, Expressionism, and the Landscape of Emotion

Artistic evolution is rarely a straight path. For many artists, it unfolds through years of…

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The Most Jaw Dropping Costumes of the Miss Universe Competition

The pageant took maximalism to new heights with its “everything but the kitchen sink” approach or maybe there was a…

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Major Philip Guston Exhibition Pushed to 2024 Over KKK Imagery Concerns

A highly anticipated Philip Guston retrospective conceived by curators at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Museum of Fine…

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Renata: Exploring Identity, Transformation, and the Ever Changing Human Self

Identity is never fixed. Every memory, relationship, emotion, and life experience quietly reshapes the person we become, creating a continuous…

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Paris Extra Muros Visiting the French capital region’s centres d’art

Winter exhibitions from CAC Brétigny to Le CrédacACROSS FRANCE, the far right is consolidating its hold on elected offices, fascistic language…

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A Schiaparelli Show Offers a Properly Surrealist Mash Up of Art and Fashion

“See you tomorrow night,” Salvador Dalí wrote on the bottom of a sketch of a dress made to look like…

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The Visual Pleasures of Art Therapy

A psychological assessment meant to uncloak unconscious feelings about the self, home, and familial relationships becomes a vehicle for artistic…

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Art Basel Hong Kong Names 240 Exhibiting Galleries for 2026 Edition

Art Basel Hong Kong today revealed the names of 240 galleries that will participate in its next iteration, taking place March…

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Gaetano Ligrani: Where Design, Architecture, and Fine Art Converge

The careers of artists are often shaped by a lifelong dialogue between observation, creativity, and craftsmanship. For Gaetano Ligrani, this…

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Gio Mondelli: A Journey Through Symbolism, Expressionism, and the Landscape of Emotion

Artistic evolution is rarely a straight path. For many artists, it unfolds through years of experimentation, shifting influences, and an ongoing search for a visual language that truly reflects their…

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Renata: Exploring Identity, Transformation, and the Ever Changing Human Self

Identity is never fixed. Every memory, relationship, emotion, and life experience quietly reshapes the person we become, creating a continuous process of transformation that often goes unnoticed. For Renata, this…

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Gaetano Ligrani: Where Design, Architecture, and Fine Art Converge

The careers of artists are often shaped by a lifelong dialogue between observation, creativity, and craftsmanship. For Gaetano Ligrani, this dialogue has unfolded across multiple disciplines, blending the precision of…

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Elisa De Montis: Exploring Femininity, Myth, and the Inner Landscape Through Symbolic Painting

Contemporary painting often serves as a mirror for personal experience, cultural reflection, and emotional exploration. For Elisa De Montis, art is a means of examining the complex relationship between identity,…

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Mimmo Rotella: The Pioneer Who Turned Urban Posters into Modern Art

Few artists transformed the visual language of post-war art as radically as Mimmo Rotella. By tearing, layering, and reassembling advertising posters taken directly from city streets, he challenged traditional ideas…

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The Artist Whose Shimmering Obelisks Are Cropping Up All Over the World

When I learned that Gisela Colón was having a retrospective at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico (MAC), I leapt at the chance to check it out. I knew that I…

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The First ‘Gulf Quinquennial’ in the UAE Argues for a ‘Less Is Best’ Approach to Group Shows

How many artists does it take to change the story of the Arabian Peninsula lands comprising Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates? About 30, the…

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Rashid Johnson’s Revelatory Guggenheim Survey Lets His Art Remain Complex and Elusive

Targets recur through Rashid Johnson’s rotunda-filling Guggenheim Museum retrospective, an insightful show that certainly hits the mark. The first can be seen outside the museum: a large steel sculpture called Black Steel in the Hour…

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A Schiaparelli Show Offers a Properly Surrealist Mash Up of Art and Fashion

“See you tomorrow night,” Salvador Dalí wrote on the bottom of a sketch of a dress made to look like a skeleton before sending it over to his friend Elsa…

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Amy Sherald’s Portraits Have Injected the Genre with New Life, But They Also Flatten Blackness

In Amy Sherald’s unique visual language, muted yet commanding Black subjects are set against bold color fields. These eye-catching portraits reward longer looking. Her subjects, donning carefully selected garments, face audiences…

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What We Miss When We Flatten Georgia O’Keeffe Into a Feminist Icon

I winced when I got a press release for a new Georgia O’Keeffe documentary to be released “around Mother’s Day.” What does one have to do with the other? The…

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From the Archives Utopia Revisited

In our April issue, Vera Koshkina wrote a searching essay about the different ways in which Western museums commemorated the recent centennial of the October Revolution. To contextualize her piece, we digitized a wide-ranging…

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Slovakia’s Kunsthalle Bratislava Director Resigns as Culture Ministry Revokes Funding

The director of the Kunsthalle Bratislava resigned on Monday, the institution announced on Instagram. In the same post, Kunsthalle Bratislava shared that the Ministry of Culture has revoked funding for the institution’s 2024…

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Joan Jonas’s MoMA Retrospective Reveals the Enduring Influence of Japanese Culture on Her Work

In a vitrine in Joan Jonas’s exhibition at MoMA lies a peculiar artifact a Noh drama notation book open to facing pages showing a schematic on the left and columns of…

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An Emotional Show in Ghana Marks the Return of Looted Asante Culture from the UK

Repatriation ceremonies tend to be bureaucratic affairs done for show the deal to return a looted artwork is conducted long before the object is actually handed over to its rightful owner.…

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