US artist Shara Hughes is having her first London exhibition for 10 years next week. Hughes’s last gallery exhibitions in London were with musician-turned-gallerist Chris Taylor, in his front room in Shoreditch, which he called Museum 52. A frequent visitor was Charles Saatchi, who bought six…

View of Arturo Herrera ’s 2019 exhibition at Corbett vs. Dempsey . Venezuela-born, Berlin-based artist Arturo Herrera breathes life into well-worn practices of modernist collage, exploring the tensions between exactitude and spontaneity, placement and displacement. As chameleonic as he is…

Show Us Your Wall The wildly popular artist mixes up his collection, shining a light on Outsider art and graffiti. The artist KAWS (Brian Donnelly) with pieces from his personal art collection in his Williamsburg studio. From left, Eugene Von Bruenchenhein’s “No. 866, March 23, 1960” (1960) and Ed…

The Jenny Holzer display at Mass MoCA opened in 2017 and runs, incredibly, through 2032. But could it ever be more timely than right now? On a recent visit, with the lamentations of impeachment ringing in my ears and a freshly acquitted president relishing his victory lap, that’s sure how it felt.…

N ew York curator and cultural critic Carlo McCormick is proud and serene as he describes the National Gallery of Victoria’s blockbuster 2020 exhibition, Crossing Lines , as a “celebration”. He’s also

Jean-Michel Basquiat, “Untitled” (nd) postcard, collection of Katie Taylor (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) Jane Diaz, an art student and waitress at the Bini Bon in the East Village in the late 1970s, struck up a conversation with Jean-Michel Basquiat one day while he was spray-painting…

FEB 2020 All Issues Find the RAIL in print Subscribe $50 annually A message from Phong Bui Publisher and Artistic Director Art HELEN PASHGIAN with Michael Straus CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI with Alexis Dahan THOMAS KOVACHEVICH with Raymond Foye Y.Z. KAMI with Francesca Pietropaolo BERNAR VENET with Robert…

Each week, we search New York City for the most exciting, and thought-provoking, shows, screenings, and events. See them below. Monday, February 24 Participants during Suzanne Lacy’s De tu Puño y Letra (November 25, 2015) a project for a Blade of Grass’s “Fieldwork” series, season two. Courtesy of…

Yoshitomo Nara, The Girl with the Knife in Her Hand, 1991, Vicki and Kent Logan, fractional and promised gift to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, © Yoshitomo Nara 1991, photo by Ikuhiro Watanabe, courtesy of the artist (ARTFIX daily .com) The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) will…

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art will soon launch the first international retrospective of acclaimed Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara , displaying over 100 major works from 1984 to 2020. The monumental exhibition will encompass paintings, drawings, sculptures and installations. While well-known…

Adam Pendleton speaks during BOMB’s 38th Anniversary Gala on April 30th, 2019. Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Adam Pendleton , a young conceptual artist who has rocketed onto the scene within the past couple of years, is going to be a big part of the Museum of Modern Art ‘s upcoming…

A new multimedia installation by Adam Pendleton, with live events daily, will explore the politics and aesthetics of blackness. Adam Pendleton, whose exhibition “Who Is Queen?” will explore his idea of “Black Dada.” Credit... Sangtae Kim; via Pace Gallery Adam Pendleton will transform the Museum of…

FEB 2020 All Issues Find the RAIL in print Subscribe $50 annually A message from Phong Bui Publisher and Artistic Director Art HELEN PASHGIAN with Michael Straus CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI with Alexis Dahan THOMAS KOVACHEVICH with Raymond Foye Y.Z. KAMI with Francesca Pietropaolo BERNAR VENET with Robert…

Peter Saul’s iconoclastic paintings have taken America’s pulse for over six decades, by capturing the idiosyncrasies of our country’s political and cultural landscape with caustic humor. His works caricaturize a chaotic medley of political figures, celebrities and pop culture icons to uncover the…

Crime and Punishment: Peter Saul's Latest Solo @ the New Museum New Museum // February 10, 2020 - May 31, 2020 February 07, 2020 | in Painting Peter Saul, Bush at Abu Ghraib, 2006. Acrylic on canvas, 78 x 90 in (198.1 x 228.6 cm). Hall Collection. Courtesy Hall Art Foundation. Photo: Jeffrey Nintzel…

Surprisingly, the timeliest as well as the rudest painting show of this winter, opening at the New Museum, happens to be the first New York museum survey ever of the American aesthetic rapscallion Peter Saul. The earliest of the works date from the early sixties, when Saul, who’s from San Francisco,…

In “Peter Saul: Crime and Punishment,” the artist uses offensiveness as a form of resistance in paintings portraying Ronald Reagan (top right), Donald Trump (bottom right) and even George Washington. Credit... Peter Saul/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Winnie Au for The New York Times Skip…

Peter Saul, Bush at Abu Ghraib , 2006, acrylic on canvas, 78 x 90". Peter Saul remembers a radio broadcast about the electrocution of Ethel Rosenberg at New York’s Sing Sing Correctional Facility in 1953—in particular, the moment when a horrified announcer described her hair going up in flames.…

Pace Gallery New York, 540 West 25th Street Completed over the past year, these ten new large-scale paintings mark a significant shift in the artist’s direction toward a more performative, energetic, and abstract approach to figuration. This shift was propelled by a recent residency in the city,…

Beneath a desk, a foot taps unconsciously, timed to headphones’ muffled beats. On a crowded concert floor, bodies sway in unison. In a cycling studio, legs pedal rhythmically to the blaring stereo. The compulsion to move is almost exclusively associated with the medium of music, but what about other…

Alexander Liberman, Helen Frankenthaler , no date. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2000.R.19) © J. Paul Getty Trust. Courtesy J. Paul Getty Trust. Protect Renoir . A muted battle cry contained in a diaphanous knot of pinks, beefy fuscias, orange, white, and flesh on a pale blue backdrop.…

As it prepares to open later this year, the Church —a new residency program and exhibition space being created by artists Eric Fischl and April Gornik in a former Methodist church on New York’s Long Island—has a new leader. Sara Cochran , the former director and chief curator of the Scottsdale…

Installation view of Kiki Smith at The 11 Conti – Monnaie de Paris (all images courtesy of The 11 Conti – Monnaie de Paris, unless otherwise noted) Kiki Smith has been celebrated for her sculptures, prints, photographs, drawings, and textiles, marked first by her fascination and concern with the…

In December, ARTnews reported that George Condo , a juggernaut of contemporary painting, was in talks to join the roster of one of the biggest galleries. Now, the news is confirmed. Hauser & Wirth has officially taken on Condo, in a sign of increased market fervor for the artist, who is known for…

In 1978, Keith Haring wrote in his journal: "I am interested in making art to be experienced and explored by as many individuals as possible with as many different individual ideas about the given pie

“Peter Saul: Crime and Punishment” New Museum New York Curated by Massimiliano Gioni and Gary Carrion-Murayari Peter Saul has been called a painter’s painter. But when I hear that phrase, I think of someone whose work trades in refinement, in nuances likely to be lost on the layman, not an…

‘I’m just tired of people saying: “Painting is dead.” It’s not dead,’ declared Pat Steir during an artist’s talk on the eve of her latest exhibition, ‘Color Wheel’, at the Hirshhorn. ‘I wanted to prove [that] painting can be [a form of] conceptual art as much as a video or whatever. It depends on…

Installation view, Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates at the Shed (all photos by Dan Bradica, courtesy the Shed) The most iconic image of Agnes Denes’s most iconic artwork, Wheatfield— A Confrontation (1982), depicts the artist standing in a field of golden, waist-high wheat that she has…

pacegallery.com ; February 11 to March 27 2020. December 17 2019 / It is impossible to overestimate the importance of James Turrell in the contemporary-art world. In the 1960s, the American artist took colour and light – two of the most simple yet sensorial aspects of existence – and completely…

Yoshitomo Nara grew up isolated in the rural setting of Hirosaki, Japan, where he could communicate better with animals, without words, than with humans. With working parents, two brothers who were 10 years older than him and no other children around, he was a rather lonely, independent latchkey kid…

Mary Corse, “Untitled (White, Black, Red, Beveled)” (2019) glass microspheres in acrylic on canvas, 78 x 19.6 x 4 inches (courtesy Kanye Griffin Corcoran/ Mary Corse) In her current exhibition Recent Paintings at Pace Gallery, Mary Corse demonstrates that she is an active progenitor of multiple…

« La soi-disant bonne peinture est comme une parade de penseurs intelligents. Je suis content d’être en dehors de ça. Traitez-moi de cinglé si vous voulez 1 ». La citation de Peter Saul est écrite sur le mur du très bel espace central des Abattoirs. Elle met dans le bain d’une exposition haute en…

Late last month, at his home on New York’s Upper East Side, the painter George Condo hosted an evening recital by the violinist Leila Josefowicz and her longtime collaborator, pianist John Novacek. The elaborate affair, arranged for 61 guests, included a catered dinner, performances of pieces by…

In niches in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, four otherworldly yet familiar figures sit. Regal women, 7ft tall with elongated heads and tapering fingers, they seem like cosmic visitors here to pass judgment on a lesser species. The work, “ The NewOnes, will free Us ”, fills…

Two iPad drawings from Taschen’s David Hockney, My Window.Photograph: © David Hockney When David Hockney discovered he could create works of art on an iPhone, he was excited by the possibilities – and the fact that he could work from the comfort of his bed. The device was the latest piece of…

It was 1971 when Francesco Clemente first traveled to India. He was with his friend and painting mentor Alighiero Boetti, and would return to live in India for a decade, on and off in Chennai, a southern, coastal region that was once a British military garrison—where he studied Sanskrit, Hindu, and…

While their art dealt with urgent political issues – capitalism, apartheid, Aids, the environment – Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat lived the social lives of rock stars, spending their days in N

Mary Corse"Untitled (White, Black, Blue, Beveled)" (2019)Installation View at Pace Gallery, New ... [+] YorkGlass microspheres in acrylic on canvas78" × 19' 6" × 4" © Mary Corse, courtesy Pace Gallery One painting disappears as you wander past it toward the next, your perception guiding you in…