‘Ha ppy Women’s Day!’ This is how Jenny Holzer greets me when I meet her on 8 March at the Guggenheim Bilbao, where she is in the middle of installing a career-spanning exhibition. She is brandishing a white T-shirt, a gift from the museum, on which are printed the names of women artists whose works…

By March 19, 2019 At the 2017 Whitney Biennial, a room dedicated to Shara Hughes ’s vividly colored invented landscape paintings mesmerized viewers. The artist’s profile has only grown since; post-biennial, her paintings have tripled in auction value, and her work was included in group shows at Paul…

The painter Robert Ryman (1930–2019) is best known for his commitment to painting with the colour white. Those lucky enough to have met him will agree on his disarming clarity, concision, and plain-spoken charm – conveyed in his self-deprecating chuckle, his penchant for the cuisine of the southern…

The artist Don Nice in his studio in Manhattan in 1964. At first he was enthralled by Abstract Expressionism, but he eventually found it limiting. Credit via Leslie Heanue Don Nice, who in a varied career was known for Pop Art, paintings inspired by the Hudson River and works that broke free of the…

Ahead of her latest solo show, we sent the artist an instant camera and asked her to take snapshots of her life. Kiki Smith, photographed by her husband, Zoran Skoko. Credit Zoran Skoko The line between the artist Kiki Smith ’s work and home life has always been faint, if it ever existed at all. She…

MARY BOONE GALLERY | JANUARY 10 – MARCH 2, 2019 Erik Parker, Triple Double , 2018. Acrylic and collage on canvas, 64 x 76 inches. © Erik Parker. Courtesy Mary Boone Gallery, New York. New Soul is Erik Parker's second exhibition with Mary Boone. Once again we may experience the artist's penchant for…

Robert Ryman, the prodigious Minimalist painter whose deceptively frank canvases examine the structures and methods of painting with primarily white and square surfaces, has died in New York at age eighty-eight. Despite, or because of, the aesthetic limitations he observed, Ryman produced a body of…

Robert Ryman. Photo: Ektakrome/Wikipedia Robert Ryman’s all-white paintings seem as if they were fated to come into existence from the beginning of modern art. Starting in the 1950s and for nearly a lifetime, he essentially painted this same almost all-white painting. Metaphysically speaking, his…

Robert Ryman in his Manhattan studio in 2004. He came of age artistically in New York in the late 1950s, when fellow artists like Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Agnes Martin were moving beyond the painterly excess of the Abstract Expressionists. Credit Ruby Washington/The New York Times…

BRANT FOUNDATION ART STUDY CENTER | NOVEMBER 12, 2018 – APRIL 1, 2019 Francesco Clemente, A History of the Heart in Three Rainbows (III) , 2009. Watercolor on paper, 73 1/9 × 149 3/4 inches. Courtesy the artist. William Blake’s poem “The Sick Rose” describes the destructive power of a “dark secret…

The Barnes Foundation commissioned the artist Pat Steir’s “Silent Secret Waterfalls,” a series in which the thinned paint drips down the canvas, working across the surface almost on its own. Photograph Courtesy The Barnes Foundation In 1933, the first time that the Barnes Foundation asked an artist…

The German-born and New York–based artist Kiki Smith has donated her entire oeuvre of published prints to the State Graphic Collection of Munich. The gift comprises more than eight hundred works, including individual sheets, series, and artist books, dating from the mid-1980s to the present. Born in…

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Articles and Features Lost (and Found) Artist Series: Mary Corse By Shira Wolfe Mary Corse at her studio. Photo credit: Joao Canziani. Courtesy Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles Artland’s Lost (and Found) Artist Series focuses on artists who were originally omitted from the mainstream art canon or…

Pat Steir is the first artist to make work for the Barnes Foundation since Matisse – and, as she tells Apollo, it’s been a thrill to create a suite of her Waterfall paintings for its Annenberg Court. What does it mean to you to have been commissioned by the Barnes Foundation and to show work in…

Tara Donovan, “Untitled (Mylar)” (2011), Mylar and hot glue, (image courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery, photograph by Christopher Burke Studios) DENVER — Tara Donovan’s artworks are unexpected: they borrow manufactured goods, but they are never readymades; they are theatrical and serial, but…

The new mural greeting visitors in the Institute of Contemporary Art’s lobby is a bit of a puzzle. Three colossal, brown heads anchor Nina Chanel Abney’s self-titled work, a site-specific piece for the Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art Wall. Two male heads face toward each other, one with an eyebrow…

Wangechi Mutu-Keep Moving, Keep Making Art TLmag 29 extended Special Guests Jan 12, 2019 Hugely prolific multidisciplinary artist Wangechi Mutu came first to the UK as a teenager from Nairobi, before moving to the US where she studied art at Parsons and Cooper Union and completed an MFA in... Scroll…

Shahzia Sikander, “Portrait of the Artist” (2016), a suite of four etchings, with accompanying collaborative text with Ayad Akhtar. Paper size: 68.5 x 53 cm; image size: 56 x 43 cm. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution: Acquired through Federal support from the Asian Pacific American…

April Gornik, Approaching Night , 2001. COURTESY THE ARTIST Artist April Gornik has joined the roster of New York’s Miles McEnery Gallery, which also shows work by Beverly Fishman, Hans Hofmann, and Judy Pfaff, among others. Danese/Corey gallery in New York, which has long shown Gornik’s work, no…

Studio Visit Acclaimed (then overlooked) during five decades, the painter hits a new tempo in life and art with a show at the Barnes, a documentary and a seven-figure sale. At Pat Steir's Manhattan studio, “The Barnes Series VI” (2018), an oil on canvas from her “Waterfall” group, is prepared for…

COME. FROLIC. PLAY. LET GO. This is the siren call of a Shara Hughes painting circa 2016-2018. Google the words “carving out fresh options shara hughes” and you’ll find one of her most notable works—a sweeping, swirling landscape that was translated from the original diptych into a large-scale…

Collectibles Nina Chanel Abney Discusses Her Debut Solo Show @ Pace Prints, NYC Oct 26, 2018 - Dec 15, 2018 Pace Prints, New York One of the most sought after contemporary artists to emerge over the past few years is NYC-based Nina Chanel Abney. Through standout solo shows, museum retrospectives and…

Nina Chanel Abney to Present Large-Scale Monoprints in NYC Show The rising artist’s first body of work in the print medium. Nina Chanel Abney You may also like Arts Nina Chanel Abney Creates Bold New Paintings for "Travelogue" Exhibit Subverting mainstream culture with piercing illustrations. By /…

WHETHER ITS THE BREAKING NEWS or a song she recently heard, Nina Chanel Abney is inspired by contemporary events and meaningful moments that often find their way into her work and may spontaneously de

“Keith Haring: Apocalypse,” a new exhibition at New York’s Pace Prints showing the collaborations between pop artist Haring , Beat Generation writer William Burroughs, and English-born artist Brion Gysin is eerily relevant for 2018. The two main works on display, Apocalypse and The Valley , were…

Artist Mary Corse Recognized For Work, After Being Ignored By Male-Dominated Art World 04:50 Copy the code below to embed the WBUR audio player on your site October 29, 2018 Karen Michel Now in her 70s, Mary Corse has had a steady career — despite being ignored by the male-dominated art world of her…

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The New York City AIDS Memorial, which will be the site of "#LightTheFight,” an interactive experience created by the artist Jenny Holzer, on Dec. 1. Credit John Moore/Circular Space Photography On the first day of December, a fleet of trucks illuminating the words of activists, poets, artists,…

Women and Power is a series about women and their relationship to power: how they get it, how they lose it, how they wield it, what they sacrifice for it, and what they hope it will help them achieve. Photo: Amanda Demme. Hair by Mahfud Ibrahim for Exclusive Artists using Chanel Les Beiges and Oribe…

Brian “KAWS” Donnelly has opened his latest exhibition titled, GONE with Skarstedt Gallery in New York City on Thursday. View this post on Instagram Our KAWS exhibition, GONE, is on view! Please visit us at 20 E. 79th Street, Tuesday-Friday 9:30-6, and Saturday 10-6pm. #Skarstedt #SkarstedtNewYork…

Artist Pat Steir has a big year ahead in 2019. In January, the Barnes Museum in Philadelphia will unveil “Silent Secret Waterfalls: The Barnes Series,” a monumental commission for the museum’s Annenberg Court entrance, where it hosts events. And in October, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden…

Loie Hollowell's portfolio for Document's Fall/Winter 2018 issue marks a daring departure from the practice of early female abstractionists, reveling in the eroticism and ethereality communicated by organic forms. Loie Hollowell’s paintings and drawings of the female figure, still lifes, floral…

Kiki Smith, photographed in her New York City home and studio on Oct. 15, 2018. Credit Jim Goldberg Skip to contentSkip to site index In her four-decade career, the artist has gone her own way, creating unapologetically lovely work that feels particularly relevant. Kiki Smith, photographed in her…

Louise Nevelson, “Untitled” (1928), fabricated red chalk on paper, sheet: 17 5/8 × 13 3/8 inches (image courtesy the Whitney Museum of American Art) In the late 1930s, artist Louise Nevelson was talking sculpture with men. One of them warned her, “Louise, you’ve got to have balls to be a sculptor.”…

Courtesy of Shane LaVancher. It only took one painting for gallery owner Marc Wehby and his wife and business partner, Susan Kravets, to sign artist Nina Chanel Abney for a show at their Chelsea gallery. It was her now-famous large-scale painting from her M.F.A. thesis show at Parsons titled Class…

True innate artists can see ahead and beyond the current moment: circumstances that are not yet fully present manifest in their works. Anticipation, thus, seems to come naturally to them. One artist who epitomizes this is Nina Chanel Abney , who was born in Chicago in 1982 and received her MFA from…

A decade ago, artist Nina Chanel Abney had her breakout with a striking piece of agit-art. It was an oversized painting called “Class of 2007,” a portrait of Abney’s class at New York’s Parsons School of Design. Abney was the lone black student in the class, but she rendered herself as a white,…

Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University February 16 – July 16, 2017 From the outset of her career, painter Nina Chanel Abney draped identities over her characters as changeably as clothes. Her thesis work, Class of 2007 (2007), depicts her school cohort in negative, with Abney—the only black student…

reviews Apr 25, 2017 Nina Chanel Abney Durham, N.C. at Nasher Museum of Art by Advertisement Nina Chanel Abney’s exhibition “Royal Flush,” which surveys the ten years of her career to date, begins with a bang and ends with a digital plink. Upon entering the show, the viewer is confronted with…