Tag: Art
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I Swam To See an Underwater Art Project Off Miami Beach That Imagines a Better Aquatic World
The news about the environment, as you may know, is not good. President Donald Trump recently announced that he was erasing the finding that climate change endangers humans and the environment, meaning the Environmental Protection Agency can no longer control pollution. The glaciers on Greenland are melting faster and faster. Partly owing to climate risks, read more
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Queer Arab Art Today
New York Newsletter An exhibition by queer artists from the diaspora, what we need from NYC’s culture commissioner, Lunar New Year events around the city, and more. In an exhibition across two Manhattan galleries, queer artists from Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and their diasporas come together to invite us to “find one another in read more
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The Price of Everything: The Art of Alvarro Naddeo – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Their presence is implied. They’ve built gravity-defying structures from shopping carts, stacked newspapers, and plywood. They’ve hung laundry and left crushed beer cans scattered across surfaces, and yet the real subjects of Alvaro Naddeo’s paintings are never seen. In the unsteady piling of trash (rendered in meticulous detail) there is an implication of adaptability, of read more
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How White Elites Drained Ancient Art of Its Color
In the autumn of 2022, Max and I walked up the iconic steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City to visit Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color. As the young son of a professional classicist, and a burgeoning one himself, my museum partner already knew about the ancient history of painted statues read more
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Queer Arab Art in Manhattan
Daily Newsletter A Texas university shutters a show critiquing ICE, a medievalist’s ode to a 15th-century Black angel, and “Ponyo” arrives in LA. Winking mother-of-pearl and exuberant paintings dot the walls of a show in Manhattan celebrating work by queer Palestinian, Jordanian, Syrian, and Egyptian artists — aptly titled after the Arabic preposition meaning “of read more
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When Art Finds Your Inner Child
On this Valentine’s Day, I’m thinking about the place of art in love, and how artistic observation, appreciation, and disagreement have helped me cultivate compassion in my own relationship. My partner and I are both passionate, hard-headed people (I’m an Aries, he’s a Taurus, pray for us), and when we’re at odds, neither of us read more
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Adrian Searle to Step Down as the Guardian’s Chief Art Critic After Three Decades
After 30 years at the Guardian, chief art critic Adrian Searle is stepping down from the role he has held since 1996. The Guardian announced today that Searle will leave his full-time role at the end of March. His final article, a look back at the past three decades and what he has learned, will read more
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Art Investing Startup Masterworks Files Legal Complaint Against an Early Hire Over Lawsuit Threat
From its offices on the 57th floor of 1 World Trade Center, employees at Masterworks hawk fractional ownership of blue-chip artworks, promising retail investors hefty returns. Reporting in both ARTnews in 2022 and the New York Times in 2024 has revealed a freewheeling atmosphere in which the company has played fast and loose with legal read more
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Art Basel Hong Kong Reveals Program Details for 2026 Fair, from an Ayoung Kim Film to an Elemental Curatorial Vision
Art Basel returns to Hong Kong this March with 240 galleries and an expanded program, including a reimagined Encounters section and the Asia debut of the digital-focused Zero 10. Following its debut at Art Basel Miami Beach in December, Zero 10’s first Hong Kong outing will feature 14 exhibitors with a program that includes digital read more
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Sotheby’s Will Sell Works by El Anatsui, Sean Scully, and Others to Benefit Royal Academy of Art
Next month, during the spring sales in London, Sotheby’s will auction off ten works to raise money for the Royal Academy of Arts in London, which has been in a financial crisis since the pandemic. The works have all been donated by living or honorary Royal Academicians, in the hopes of raising enough funds to read more
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Bonhams Unveils 57th Street Flagship With Cuban Art, Brancusi, and Boxing Legends
Bonhams has a new front door in New York, and it is not subtle. This week, the 232-year-old auction house opened its new U.S. headquarters at 111 West 57th Street, inside the restored Steinway Hall and beneath the pencil-thin tower that now looms over Billionaires’ Row. The move shifts Bonhams from its longtime Madison Avenue read more
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New York’s High Line Art Announces 2026 Commissions, with Works by Katherine Bernhardt, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, and Derek Fordjour
High Line Art, the Cecilia Alemani–curated enterprise the programs and commissions public artworks for the reimagined elevated-train-track park in New York, announced its next season, to start in the spring and continue (in most cases) for around a year. In March, the High Line Billboard—a working billboard rising from the ground on 18th Street—will be read more
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Amy Sherald’s Show Sets Visitor Record at Baltimore Museum of Art
News The museum became a venue for “American Sublime” after Sherald withdrew her exhibition from the Smithsonian, citing censorship concerns. Amy Sherald, “Ecclesia (The Meeting of Inheritance and Horizons)” (2024) (courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth) The traveling exhibition Amy Sherald: American Sublime has set a new attendance record at the Baltimore Museum of read more
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Jerry McMillan, Whimsical Chronicler of LA’s Art Scene, Dies at 89
Photographer Jerry McMillan, who played a key role in documenting the mid-century art scene in Los Angeles, died on Monday, February 9, at the age of 89. The cause was “old age and a broken heart,” according to his son. McMillan’s wife of more than six decades, Patricia Ella McMillan, had passed away a week read more
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Art Problems: Should I Sell My Work to People Whose Politics I Hate?
Should I allow my work to be sold to people whose politics I hate? I’m not okay with the ongoing injustice in Minneapolis and I don’t want to pretend this is just a difference of opinion. —distraught painter in America Short answer. No. You should not allow your work to be sold to MAGA supporters. read more
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Along the Mississippi River, 'Water | Craft' Is a Confluence of Art, Culture, and Ecology
When we think of terms like “flowing” or “fluid,” we could be referring to the nature of water, but we can also just as easily apply these concepts to our understanding of art and craft. Fabrics “pool” and different mediums converge. The nature of creativity is often referred to in terms of an “ebb and read more
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Iconic Baseball Painting by Norman Rockwell Acquired by the Art Institute of Chicago
On Tuesday, the Art Institute of Chicago announced its acquisition of a study for The Dugout (1948) by Norman Rockwell. Donated by former governor of Illinois Bruce Rauner and Diana Rauner, it will be the first work by that artist in the museum’s collection. A popular painter of American everyday life, Rockwell (1894–1978) is most read more
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10 Art Shows to See in the Bay Area This Spring
The San Francisco Bay Area is experiencing something of a cultural crisis. For those of us who have lived here long enough, it’s a comparable collapse to what the community experienced during the first dot-com boom. Galleries and arts nonprofits are closing in handfuls. Museum programming appears to be pandering to the tech bros. Rent read more
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Amanda Ross-Ho Finds Herself in Her Parents' Art
Art Review The artist’s current show is a moving reflection on the ways our identities are inexorably entangled with our relationships and surroundings. Ruyell Ho, selected flood damaged 8x 10 color transparencies from Communigrafix Photographic Studios, Chicago, Illinois, circa 1982, acrylic, Port-a-Trace lightboxes in Amanda Ross-Ho’s Untitled Damages (ROOM DIVIDER) at Leroy’s, Los Angeles (all read more
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Art and Power Collide in New York City
New York Newsletter The Epstein files rip through the art world’s elite, yet hope emerges in the work of Goya, Amazonian artists, and three millennia of storytellers. Call it conceited, call it tunnel vision, call it East Coast elitism or editorial hyperbole, but sometimes it really does feel like everything in the world runs through read more
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