Lucy Dacus. Photo Kevin Winter/Getty Images Lucy Dacus‘s newly released album Forever Is A Feeling has been widely anticipated among music aficionados, with the 29-year-old singer even getting a full-length profile in the New Yorker last week. But it turns out that the art world has a reason to pay attention to the album, too. …
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Eartheater & Freeka Tet – screening of new video directed by Freeka Tet and live performance with the world premiere of Eartheater’s new song “Shark Brain” performed by her and Estrella del Sol at Ex Teresa Arte Actual Courtesy TONO Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, a new ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers …
Exterior view of The American Museum of Natural History’s Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation on May 10, 2023. Corbis via Getty Images New York’s American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) has returned a shrine known as the Whalers’ Washing House to Mowachaht, a First Nations people in Canada. The Whalers’ Washing House …
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Citra Sasmita. Photo Gus Agung, Niskala Studio/Courtesy the artist In Citra Sasmita’s universe, naked women with long, flowing black hair are often engulfed in flames. Some sprout trees from their heads, their necks, or even their pelvises. Others metamorphose into snakes or birds. Still others wield swords and severed heads. Channeling creative and destructive energies, …
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Walter Sickert, Ethel Sands Descending the Stairs at Newington , c. 1920 Collection of the Hepworth Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK. Photo copyright © The Hepworth Wakefield/Bridgeman Images. The room comes into focus slowly. It’s an intimate space, with clothing strewn across a chair and a glimpse of a bed frame on the left side of …
Photocollage by Daniela Hritcu When Salvator Mundi, a painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, fetched $450 million at Christie’s in 2017, it became the most expensive artwork ever sold. While male artists, dead or alive, keep breaking records at auctions (Jeff Koons’s $58.4 million Balloon Dog sculpture in 2013, Claude Monet’s $65.5 million Nymphéas painting …
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Photocollage by Daniela Hritcu. From the first wave of feminism in the 1840s to second-wave feminism and the Feminist art movement of the 1960s and ’70s through the intersectional feminism of today, these 15 artworks by American women stand out for the lasting impact they’ve had on art history. Read more of our Women’s History …
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Dundas Street, Edinburgh, in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests across the UK. PA Images via Getty Images The Palestine Museum US in Woodbrigde, Connecticut, will launch a European satellite project in Edinburgh this May. The now space will be set in the Scottish city’s central Georgian-designed New Town, which was listed as …
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Photographer Sally Mann relaxes with her dog Honey in a meadow of tall grass on her farm near Lexington, Virginia. Photo Michael Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images A Texas county will not take legal action against the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth for showing Sally Mann photographs that some labeled “child pornography,” according …
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Japanese-born artist and musician Yoko Ono and British musican and artist John Lennon (1940 – 1980), December 1968. (Photo by Susan Wood/Getty Images) Getty Images Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Yoko, a new biography about Yoko Ono from author David Sheff. It releases March 25 from Simon and Schuster. On September 14, 1966, there …
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