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  • Jonas Wood Turns Tennis Courts into Color Experiments in New Gagosian Show

    Jonas Wood has been watching sports his whole life, and the habit has followed him into the studio. “I played tons of sports when I was a kid and I was obsessed with following them,” Wood said, speaking with me by Zoom from his Los Angeles studio. “I used to read the entire sports section read more

    Jonas Wood Turns Tennis Courts into Color Experiments in New Gagosian Show
  • Decades in the Making, Institut Restellini’s Amedeo Modigliani Catalogue Raisonné to Release Next Month

    After over 40 years in the making, Institut Restellini’s Amedeo Modigliani catalogue raisonné will finally release next month. Pace will host a book launch at its London gallery on April 21, with a day-long symposium to follow on April 30 at Pace’s 540 West 25th Street space in New York. To say the publication is read more

    Decades in the Making, Institut Restellini’s Amedeo Modigliani Catalogue Raisonné to Release Next Month
  • Ali Eyal Gives Testimony

    Feature “I was nine years old, and I felt like I lost that childhood,” the Whitney Biennial artist told Hyperallergic, reflecting on the US’s war in Iraq, the disappearance of his father, and the art he makes to process. Ali Eyal in the yard channeling his uncles in Amsterdam (photo by Samar Al Summary, courtesy read more

    Ali Eyal Gives Testimony
  • Elizabeth Saloka's Vibrant Painted Rocks Adopt the Personalities of Snacks and Pop Culture Icons

    While most of us will pass by stray stones and piles of rubble without much of a second thought, Elizabeth Saloka sees tons of potential. From a couple of rock piles outside of her regular supermarket to crumbling curbs or demolished structures, she sifts through a variety of shapes and sizes to find rocks that read more

    Elizabeth Saloka's Vibrant Painted Rocks Adopt the Personalities of Snacks and Pop Culture Icons
  • Lucy Raven’s Latest Film Captures a Dramatic Dam Removal in the Pacific Northwest

    Lucy Raven’s film work Murderers Bar (2025) captures the removal of a dam in the Pacific Northwest and the dramatic release of water that takes the form of a newly born river as it rushes from Oregon through Northern California on its way to the Pacific Ocean. The 42-minute piece is the final part of read more

    Lucy Raven’s Latest Film Captures a Dramatic Dam Removal in the Pacific Northwest
  • Close Encounters: The Paintings of David Rice – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    The Pacific Northwest is perhaps the wildest, most breathtaking region in the continental United States. With its combination of mountain ranges, conifer forests, lakes, rivers, and ancient sequoias looming over the California coast, the geography and texture of Wyoming, Montana, California, and Oregon return us to North America’s primordial past. It reminds us of when read more

    Close Encounters: The Paintings of David Rice – Hi-Fructose Magazine
  • Works by Es Devlin, Brian Eno, and Nan Goldin to Be Auctioned to Support Palestinian Aid

    Works by artists includingEs Devlin, Brian Eno, Nan Goldin, and Grayson Perrywill be auctioned in London later this month to raise funds for humanitarian aid supporting Palestinians. The sale, organized byChoose Love,Gideon Berger Studio,Hope 93 Gallery, and art dealerZayna Al-Saleh, will benefit theTogether For Palestine Fund, which supports Palestinian-led humanitarian organizations, according tothe National. The read more

    Works by Es Devlin, Brian Eno, and Nan Goldin to Be Auctioned to Support Palestinian Aid
  • Chronicles of a Needless War

    Daily Newsletter DC’s “Jeffrey Epstein Walk of Shame,” a major ruling on copyrights for AI art, Israel-US strikes damage a historic site in Tehran, exhibitions to visit in Los Angeles this month, and more. As Lunar New Year celebrations continue across the world, nobody embodies the holiday spirit quite like New Yorkers. Case in point: read more

    Chronicles of a Needless War
  • Álvaro Urbano Suspends Fleeting Moments of Decay in Metal Plants

    Anyone who’s decried the seasonal blip we call autumn knows how rapidly nature can swing from verdant greenery to leafless branches. The same goes for the missed watering of an overlooked houseplant: skip a week and bear witness to browning edges that curl into a crisp. As quickly as these natural changes occur, so do read more

    Álvaro Urbano Suspends Fleeting Moments of Decay in Metal Plants
  • Art by Famed Prisoner Charles Bronson Will Head to Auction

    Five hundred artworks by Charles Bronson, one of England’s most infamous outsider artists, are set to be auctioned by UK auction house David Duggleby Auctioneers in Murton, according to the BBC. The works, which belong to a single owner, will be offered as one lot on March 11. Now 73, Bronson was born Michael Peterson read more

    Art by Famed Prisoner Charles Bronson Will Head to Auction
  • Thaddeus Mosley, Sculptor Who Wielded Heavy Wood with a Light Touch, Dies at 99

    Thaddeus Mosley, a sculptor whose abstractions formed from reused wood earned him a significant, fervent following in the late stages of his career, died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Friday at 99. His family announced his passing, with his son, Pittsburgh City Councilman Khari Mosley, calling him “a dedicated family man, ubiquitous community pillar, and an read more

    Thaddeus Mosley, Sculptor Who Wielded Heavy Wood with a Light Touch, Dies at 99
  • Biennial Hangover

    The Whitney Biennial is opening to the public tomorrow. While it has lost some of its luster over the years, it’s still considered a barometer of American art today. Read what our critics and editors thought of the show below. While we’re talking New York, do check out our useful guide of art shows to read more

    Biennial Hangover
  • F. Scott Hess: Art History & The Dreams of a Reluctant Realist – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Also on view in Hess’ living room is “Past the Wit of Man,” its title derived from a quote in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. At the forefront is a creature with a male human body and the head of a bull, naked and posed on the edge of a river. A monkey in a red read more

    F. Scott Hess: Art History & The Dreams of a Reluctant Realist – Hi-Fructose Magazine
  • 10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This March

    Los Angeles may be recovering from a bit of an art hangover after our dizzying fair week, but there are several excellent shows worth a closer look this month. At Vielmetter, Hayv Kahraman draws on personal loss to create mystical visions of resilience. Painters Jesse Wiedel and Cole Case focus on our nation’s complexities and read more

    10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This March
  • Israel-US Strikes Damage Tehran’s Historic Golestan Palace

    News The Qajar monument contains priceless Iranian art and manuscripts. Golestan Palace on March 3 after it was damaged during US and Israeli airstrikes in Tehran, Iran (photo by Majid Saeedi via Getty Images) The relentless Israeli and American airstrikes on Iran have caused significant damage to the Qajar-era Golestan Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage read more

    Israel-US Strikes Damage Tehran’s Historic Golestan Palace
  • The Political Potential of the Chinatown Storefront

    Features Abrons Arts Center is hosting its annual Lunar New Year mutual aid initiative, where art highlights and supports local businesses. AX Mina March 6, 2026 — 3 min read Installation view of From Chinatown, With Love (all photos AX Mina/Hyperallergic) The motif of eight horses galloping (八骏图) in traditional Chinese ink paintings indicates strength, read more

    The Political Potential of the Chinatown Storefront
  • Vanity Fair Launches Revamp of Nate Freeman’s Newsletter With Michael Govan Interview on LACMA’s New $720 M. Building

    Los Angeles County Museum of Art director Michael Govan is speaking publicly for the first time about the museum’s long-awaited David Geffen Galleries. The interview, which went live today, appears in the relaunch of True Colors, Vanity Fair’s art-world newsletter written by Nate Freeman. The newsletter will now land in inboxes weekly on Fridays with read more

    Vanity Fair Launches Revamp of Nate Freeman’s Newsletter With Michael Govan Interview on LACMA’s New 0 M. Building
  • Sotheby’s to Auction $130 M. Robert Mnuchin Collection Led by $70–100 M. Rothko Painting

    Sotheby’s is preparing to bring works from the collection of the late dealer and financierRobert Mnuchinto auction this May in New York, adding a fresh trove of blue-chip material to a season the house hopes will build on its blockbuster November and a strong start to the spring sales. The consignment is made up of read more

    Sotheby’s to Auction 0 M. Robert Mnuchin Collection Led by –100 M. Rothko Painting
  • “Jeffrey Epstein Walk of Shame” Pops Up in DC

    News The guerrilla artwork includes “stars” for MoMA trustee Leon Black, arts patron Les Wexner, and over a dozen other individuals mentioned in the Epstein files. A “star” for MoMA trustee Leon Black in the “Jeffrey Epstein Walk of Shame” in Washington, DC (all photos Emma Cieslik/Hyperallergic) WASHINGTON, DC — On Sunday, March 1, a read more

    “Jeffrey Epstein Walk of Shame” Pops Up in DC
  • Christie’s Nabs $450 M. S.I. Newhouse Cache, Led by Pollock, Picasso, and Brancusi Masterworks

    Treasures priced at $100 million by 20th-century masters Jackson Pollock and Constantin Brancusi will lead Christie’s New York’s marquee May art sales, coming from the collection of media magnate S. I. Newhouse, Artnet News has revealed. While Christie’s has yet to confirm Artnet’s report, those two estimates, if met, would far exceed those artists’ current read more

    Christie’s Nabs 0 M. S.I. Newhouse Cache, Led by Pollock, Picasso, and Brancusi Masterworks