Mary Heilmann at the Whitechapel Gallery in 2016. Heilmann’s show Past Present Future at Hauser & Wirth Zurich is now online © Matt Crossick/PA Wire Past Present Future : the title of Mary Heilmann’s

For Wangechi Mutu, the Kenyan-American artist who created it, integrating East African culture is a vital element of the piece. The figure’s long tail and back are studded with ornamentation that refe

It's yet another cozy Sunday afternoon during quarantine, and Serena Williams is lounging in her newly decorated home office on Zoom with her big sister Venus. It’s just two months after the tennis ti

Agnes Denes, Isometric Systems in Isotropic Space - Map Projections: The Snail , 1978, ink on rag paper with printed Mylar overlay, 24 x 30”. IN THE FIRST MONTHS OF QUARANTINE, my apartment became my

This great portraitist has had a very large and devoted following in his pocket for years. The chief reason for this is the enormous pleasure Hockney gives to his viewers. Since he first began showing

“Peter Saul: Crime and Punishment” (2020), installation view, New Museum, New York: from left, “Mickey Mouse vs. the Japs” (1962), oil on canvas, 59 x 71 inches, Hall Collection; “Superman and Superdo

A new application developed by the Sol LeWitt estate and Microsoft enables users to explore works by the famed 20th-century artist, a pioneer in the fields of Minimalism and Conceptual art best known

Novelist Ayad Akhtar, left, and artist Shahzia Sikander, right, discuss their artistic collaborations. (Photos courtesy of author / Vincent Tullo/ Werner Bartsch) In an age of visual profusion, when t

How readers first encountered the Architectural Digest Arnold Glimcher piece. Photographed by Derry Moore, Architectural Digest , March 1984 Le cirque at Pace Gallery. Photo: Kyle Knodell “The philoso

Robert Mangold, “Two Merging Squares” (2019), acrylic on canvas, 44 × 80 1/2 inches (© 2020 Robert Mangold / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York) Robert Mangold has long worked with three elements:

Austin Lee recently launched his second solo exhibition titled “ Aah ” at Berlin’s Peres Projects. The New York-based visual artist returns with a new sculpture edition offered by Pace Prints and publ

In “Studio Visit,” artists invite us to peek inside their workspaces to offer insight into their process, inspirations, and obsessions. Throughout the lockdown, artists have continued toiling through

D’Angelo Lovell Williams, “Undetectable” (2020) installed at Fulton Street and Jay Street, Brooklyn, as part of Art on the Grid (artwork courtesy the artist and Higher Pictures Generation/Janice Guy;

She discusses a new, candid documentary of her life, and talks about her art practice and the influence of John Cage, Sol LeWitt and Agnes Martin, and about feminism, politics and civil rights by LILL

I woke up this morning and realized I live in a country where police mow down civilians with SUVs and storm protesters with batons, rubber bullets, teargas, and live rounds. I realized you can lose yo

The Artist Statements project is an ever-evolving creative tribute to the agonies and the ecstasies of Black American life—from police brutality and civil rights activism to the close bonds of communi

Installation view of "Adam Pendleton: Elements of Me" at the Gardner Museum. Stewart Clements Photography and Design/Courtesy Adam Pendleton In April, when the pandemic was new, Adam Pendleton looked

Monday, July 27 Christina and Emmanuel Di Donna Open New Gallery in Southampton Christina and Emmanuel Di Donna , the founders of Di Donna Galleries in New York, have opened Sélavy, a gallery at 30 Jo

Archetypal Portraits: Will Cotton Interviewed by William J. Simmons Painting the fantasy of real life. Will Cotton, The Taming of the Cowboy (Scott) , 2020, oil on linen, 37 × 28 inches. Courtesy of t

Issue 7.5.20 July 2, 2020, 5:48 p.m. ET For this issue, a look at the enduring racial caste system in the United States. Credit... Video by HunterGatherer Gail Bichler, creative director: “In this wee

What is more powerful: beauty, or ugliness? Artist Fred Wilson , who is known for his interventionist artworks, in which he takes objects from museum collections and rearranges them, decoding and reco

Op-Art: See the Sin A sketch from an artist known for his critical articulations of blackness, abstraction and the avant-garde. Mass demonstration. Indifference. Slavery. Indifference. Jim Crow. Indif

When making an artist documentary , there’s something to be said for just letting the subject talk at length, and so it seems appropriate that the artist Pat Steir is allowed to speak for almost the f

At Home Camp: In Your Backyard Watch: ‘The Blacklist’ Season Finale Grill: Vegetables! Read: Classic Mysteries Artists and architects may be sheltering at home, but their creativity still flows — and the results surprise even them. Here’s what 10 famous makers are looking at, reading, and sketching…

George Condo and Rashid Johnson talk about their new simultaneous digital shows, politics and how the role of artists has changed. George Condo’s “Together and Apart” (2020). Credit... © George Condo,

Peter Saul, Washington Crossing the Delaware , 1975. Oil on canvas, 89 x 150 1/2 in (226.1 x 382.3 cm). Collection KAWS. Photo: Farzad Owrang. On View New Museum Peter Saul: Crime and Punishment New York Peter Saul (b. 1934) is a classic Pop artist who, with his current exhibition at the New Museum,…

Daniel Heidkamp, Montauk Monsters, 2018 RxArt As social distancing and “safer-at-home” orders are extended throughout the US this week, artists including KAWS, Jeffrey Gibson, Daniel Heidkamp, Rashid Johnson and Alex Israel have signed up to participate in a series of daily live colouring sessions…

Each week, we search New York City for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events. We are currently highlighting events and exhibitions available digitally. See our picks from around the world below. (Times are all EST unless otherwise noted.) Tuesday, March 31 A talk…

Even Your Bad Mood Is Sweet, 2018 Shara Hughes’ paintings are vibrant and turbulent, a riot of colour, depicting imagined spaces which appear as semi-fictional landscapes. Trees, lakes and rolling hil

David Hockney “Self Portrait” (1954), collage on newsprint, 16 1⁄2 x 11 3⁄4 inches (© David Hockney, photo by Richard Schmidt; Bradford Museums & Galleries, Bradford, UK, all images courtesy National Portrait Gallery, London) LONDON — It’s not a teen idol at the door after all. It’s David Hockney!…

The author alongside Jamal Cyrus’s Pride Frieze—Jerry White’s Record Shop, Central Avenue, Los Angeles at Inman Gallery’s booth. Adam Mrlik After working at multiple fine art communication agencies over the years, I’ve learned a thing or two on securing coverage for a client. While the tricks of the…

Kiki Smith, Untitled 2, 1995 Kiki Smith La Monnaie de Paris October 18, 2019 - February 9, 2020 By LUCY RALPH , February 2020 Every year since 2014, La Monnaie de Paris (Paris’ former mint), has welcomed a contemporary artist to exhibit over 1000sqm within its beautiful salons, many of which looking…

© Zanele Muholi. Courtesy of the artist, Yancey Richardson, New York, and Stevenson Cape Town / Johannesburg. Zanele Muholi, Tshatha VI, Umlazi, Durban , 2019. Gelatin silver print. “We’ve brightened

Since the beginning of his practice as a painter, the artist Nigel Cooke has tried to bring figuration and abstraction into the same conversation. His early works were desolate, post-apocalyptic landscapes that featured bright, almost toxic colour combinations. At Pace Gallery and Pace Prints in New…

At Tate’s 2017 Hockney blockbuster, a room of drawings stood out as an independent mini-show: intimate, nuanced, emotionally denser than the paintings, a triumph of graphic clarity. One wanted more, and here it is: the National Portrait Gallery’s stunning David Hockney: Drawing from Life is an…

Still curious … David Hockney at his exhibition Drawing from Life at the National Portrait Gallery.Photograph: David Parry/National Portrait Gallery/PA W hen it comes to wielding a pencil, an etching burin or just a felt pen, David Hockney has no rivals. Lucian Freud’s etchings bore me senseless,…

There was an odd span of years, in the early '00s, during which flight attendants, restaurant workers, and other strangers would mistake Peter Saul for a woman. Perhaps advancing age had added a touch of femininity to his features. “I'm glad you've become a woman,” his wife said to him at the time.…