Jesse Krimes. Photo Eileen Travell/©The Metropolitan Museum of Art Jesse Krimes vividly recalls the moment he chose to identify as an artist. During a year in solitary confinement, awaiting sentencing for non-violent drug-related charges, he had a life-defining realization: he would be an artist, no matter what. “I decided very early on that I was …
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Vincent Valdez, So Long, Mary Ann, 2019. Photo Paul Salveson/Private Collection Vincent Valdez’s studio in East Los Angeles is packed with large canvases, some still in progress. There’s a painting titled Supreme of the Supreme Court with portions unpainted and sketched on the canvas. On the same canvas, there are glimpses of the Rockefellers and …
Jaime Muñoz. Photo Eduardo Medrano Jr. Jaime Muñoz is a keen cultural observer. A conversation with him veers from art history, the commercialization of contemporary art, and Mesoamerican symbology to Los Angeles car culture, science fiction, and literature. All of these references and more filter their way into Muñoz’s art, which is steeped with the …
Kim Kardashian. Photo Taylor Hill/FilmMagic Rumors are swirling that Kim Kardashian may be the owner of a $4.9 million Jean-Michel Basquiat painting that appeared at auction at Christie’s in 2017. Kardashian has yet to officially confirm she is the buyer of the Basquiat painting, a 1982 canvas called Both Poles. But keen-eyed entertainment journalists noted …
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The exterior of the Rothko Chapel is pictured behind the Broken Obelisk sculpture by Barnett Newman. Courtesy the Rothko Chapel. After closing due to hurricane-related damage earlier this year in July, the landmark Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas reopened to the public on Tuesday. The chapel boasts a suite of 14 massive paintings by the …
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Ahmed Salameh, ‘On the Shores of Gaza No.2’, (2020). Courtesy the artist and Zawyeh Art Gallery Zawyeh Art Gallery, the organizer and sole venue of the Ramallah Art Fair, wants it known that the name of the event is a bit of a misnomer. Yes, the works in its newly opened fourth edition are for …
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Zilia Sánchez. Photo Raquel Perez Puig Zilia Sánchez, an artist known for her shaped canvases that bulge outward, has died at 98. The San Juan–based aritst’s death was announced on Thursday by the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, which did not state a cause. Sánchez’s erotically tinged paintings alluded frequently to the female body, …
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The Thomas Hart Benton mural “Independence and the Opening of the West” is a fixture in the lobby of the south entrance to the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum in Independence. It depicts the role Independence played in changing the American West. TNS The five-year legal battle between the heirs of American scene …
Hilma af Klint: Group IV, The Ten Largest, No. 7, Adulthood, 1907. Stiftelsen Hilma af Klints Verk. A potential agreement between the Hilma af Klint Foundation and mega gallerist David Zwirner stands to separate the artist’s work for profit. The family of the Swedish artist oversees her foundation, which is responsible for the preservation of …
Installation view of “World Without End: The George Washington Carver Project,” 2024–25, at California African American Museum, showing, from left, Karon Davis’s sculpture George Washington Carver (2024) and Henry Taylor’s painting ‘Call Her Green’ Plant (2024). Photo Elon Schoenholz Historically, the relationship between Black Americans and the American South—in both the art world and the …
