Category: art
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Mitchell Johnson’s Personal Color at Galerie Mercier in Paris
Announcement Intimate paintings spanning nearly four decades of the artist’s career are on view at the gallery from February 28 to March 21. Mitchell Johnson “Red Stairwell (Rue Guisarde)” (2025), 16×24 inches, oil on canvas (©Mitchell Johnson, 2026) In his continued exploration of color, shape, and scale, American painter Mitchell Johnson presents 25 intimate paintings read more
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Epstein in the Shadow of de Sade
Daily Newsletter Ed Simon on how the intellectual elite absolves abusers of their crimes, Marigold Santos’s loving epiphytes, and Damien Davis in conversation with Hakim Bishara. Among the most mind-bending revelations of the recent trove of Epstein files is not only who was implicated and to what extent, but the mental gymnastics performed by the read more
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Yuko Mohri’s Fragile Sculptures Confront the Inevitability of Change
On the first preview day of the 2024 Venice Biennale, a torrential downpour sent artists, curators, journalists, and dealers scurrying for shelter. While others fretted about how the art on view would weather the sheets of rain, Yuko Mohri, the sculptor representing Japan that year, felt unusually relaxed. If all this water destroyed a new read more
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Collector Belinda Tanoto’s Art Foundation Showcases Cutting-Edge Art with a Mission to Build Out Singapore’s Art Scene
A former 1960s girls’ high school assembly hall may not be the first place you expect to find contemporary art in Singapore. For collector Belinda Tanoto, however, it was the ideal pop-up venue for the inaugural exhibition of her recently formed Tanoto Art Foundation (TAF). “We purposely picked a place that is not an intimidating read more
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New Film About a Viral Finger Painting Prodigy Skewers the Art World’s Cruel Optimism
A Canadian curator and sad dad is working for a Quebecois collector in Nina Roza, a film that premiered this week at Berlinale. His rich boss is doomscrolling and stops on a viral video that shows a child prodigy finger painting in a Bulgarian barn. Her abstractions, she explains to the camera, depict the cosmos; read more
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Brazilian Authorities Search for Art Holdings of Bank CEO
Brazilian authorities are searching for assets, including art, linked to financier Daniel Vorcaro, CEO of the failed bank Banco Master SA, reports Bloomberg. Brazil’s central bank liquidated Banco Master last November due to a severe solvency crisis and regulatory violations and after a police investigation into its practices. Officials allege that Banco Master, a mid-sized read more
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Faig Ahmed Redfines the Traditional – Hi-Fructose Magazine
“I want to do with carpets anything that I can with all the instruments that exist, so no one can even do anything with them in the coming 100 years,” boldly declared Azerbaijani artist Faig Ahmed in an email, as if penning his personal manifesto. Recently, his experimental and, at times, sculptural versions of Middle read more
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Keeping a Critical Eye on the Art World With Damien Davis
Member Event Join us on March 2 for a virtual conversation between artist and Hyperallergic contributor Damien Davis and Editor-in-Chief Hakim Bishara. Photo of Damien Davis by Ricky Day for Ricky Day Studio Join us on Monday, March 2, for an exclusive, intimate talk with artist and Hyperallergic contributor Damien Davis, whose distinctive voice challenges read more
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Aunia Kahn's Lush Portraits Depict a Playful Inner Landscape
“For me, it always starts with joy,” explains Aunia Kahn. The Detroit-based artist uses a handful of materials—gouache, pastels, pencils, and gold ink—to create rich, velvety portraits that evoke folk art patterns, surrealist themes, and celestial iconography. Reclaiming the importance of play in the creative process has been a powerful catalyst for Kahn, who had read more
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Louvre Official Says Fraud Was ‘Statistically Inevitable’ Following Revelation of Counterfeit Ticket Scheme
With roughly 9 million visitors last year, the Louvre in Paris remains the world’s most visited museum—and, according to one official, an “inevitable” target of fraud—following the revelation of a decade-long, €10 million ($11.8 million) suspected ticket scam. Kim Pham, the Louvre’s general administrator, told the Associated Press that the museum’s vast scale made such read more
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Art Movements: Marilyn Minter Wins Again
Community The feminist artist received an international award from Anderson Ranch. Plus, new top staff at university museums, and the V&A goes to the zoo. Artist Marilyn Minter poses for a portrait in front of one of her paintings of lips in 1995 in New York City, New York (photo Catherine McGann/Getty Images) Art Movements,published read more
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Marigold Santos Takes Root
Art Review She uses epiphytes — plants that grow on other plants without harming them — as a framework for the expansive ways diasporas form. Installation view of Marigold Santos, “Nacre” (2025) (photo courtesy Patel Brown gallery; all other photos Neil Price/Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) TORONTO —The only thing most people know about epiphytes, if read more
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The Marquis de Sade of the Upper East Side
Editor’s Note: The following story contains mentions of sexual assault. To reach the National Sexual Assault Hotline, call 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or visit online.rainn.org. Ten days before several hundred sans-culottes and Parisian commoners, armed with filched muskets and cobblestones, stormed the Bastille, its most notorious prisoner had already been transferred. Coincidentally, it was that transferred inmate read more
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Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair Returns to Powerhouse Arts This Spring
Announcement Over 50 exhibitors, hands-on programming, and a juried print exhibition make up the fair’s expanded second edition. April 9–12, 2026. Booth view at Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair 2025 (all photos by Gina Curovic) Building on its momentous debut last spring, the Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair returns to Powerhouse Arts in Gowanus from read more
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In Congress Deposition, Billionaire Collector Les Wexner Claims He Was ‘Conned’ by Jeffrey Epstein
Les Wexner, the billionaire founder of L Brands and a major art collector, gave testimony to the US House of Representatives on Wednesday, in a closed door deposition from his home in New Albany, Ohio. In an opening statement to the House Oversight Committee, which is conducting an investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein case, Wexner read more
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Les Wexner Claims Naivety in Epstein Deposition
Democratic congress members cast their doubts on billionaire retail magnate and arts patron Les Wexner’s testimony regarding Jeffrey Epstein after his closed-door deposition to the House Oversight Committee (HOC) yesterday, February 18. Wexner, who had once granted Jeffrey Epstein power of attorney over his massive fortune, emphasized that he “never witnessed nor had any knowledge read more
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Dóra Maurer, Artist Beloved for Heady Films and Exuberantly Colored Paintings, Dies at 88
Dóra Maurer, a Hungarian conceptual artist whose output in multiple mediums explored how meaning shifts across time and space, has died at 88. The Art Newspaper reported that the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts, where Maurer served as president, confirmed her passing. Maurer was one of the most important contemporary artists in Hungary. She read more
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Fossil in Montana Seen as Evidence of Vicious Tyrannosaurus Attack
A rare fossil in the collection of the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, is the subject of new research that suggests its shows signs of an attack by a Tyrannosaurus rex. As reported by Phys.org, the skull of an Edmontosaurus—a duck-billed creature that counts among the last dinosaurs to exist—has a Tyrannosaurus tooth read more
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A Newly Updated Monograph Surveys Four Decades of Ai Weiwei's Career
From his monumental, meditative installation of 100 million hand-painted porcelain sunflower seeds on the floor of Turbine Hall at Tate Modern to architectural columns wrapped in 14,000 salvaged life vests worn by refugees, artist-activist Ai Weiwei has long tapped into the power of scale, repetition, and symbols to plumb cultural heritage and expose societal issues. read more
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A Popular Bernini Sculpture of an Elephant in a Rome Square Was Damaged. Was It Weather or Vandalism?
Baroque master Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s popular marble sculpture of an elephant in Rome’s Piazza della Minerva was damaged over the weekend, with a four-inch fragment of the tip of one of its tusks broken off and found on the ground. Local authorities discovered the damage over the weekend and revealed it on Monday night. It’s read more
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