Artists

Jackson Pollock Transformed American Art—and Was Destroyed by His Own Success

American abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock (1912 – 1956) holds a cigarette above and behind one of his paintings in his studio at ‘The Springs,’ East Hampton, New York, August 23, 1953. (Photo by Tony Vaccaro/Getty Images) Getty Images Leaving aside the so-called drip paintings that made Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) the face of Abstract Expressionism, …

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See Inside the Belarus Free Theatre’s Venice Exhibition on Art Under Authoritarianism

Vladmir Tsesler’s “Spiders,” 2026 hang above Sergey Grinevich’s “Field of Wheat,” 2026. Courtesy Belarus Free Theatre/Photo Dasha Trofimova When the Belarus Free Theatre opened “Official. Unofficial. Belarus.” at La Chiesa di San Giovanni Evangelista di Venezia earlier this month, it marked the first time Belarus had a presence at the Venice Biennale in six years—and …

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In Performance Series, Artists Tackle the Nature of Images, and Reality, in the Face of AI

Gideon Jacobs performs at Giorno Poetry Systems in early May. Shanti Escalante-De Mattei/ARTnews Every time a tech company promotes an emerging technology like AI or the metaverse, the pitch sounds the same: a promise to “unleash” the imagination, or a new “immersive world.” When Facebook rebranded as Meta in 2021, its ad showed four people …

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The Most Expensive Works by Mark Rothko Sold at Auction

Mark Rothko’s ‘Orange, Red, Yellow’ 1956. AP Photo/Alastair Grant Mark Rothko’s abstractions, recognizable for their rectangularly shaped floating forms and thin washes of color, have been said by critics and historians to invoke the metaphysical. The Russian-American painter relied on these formal elements to imbue his canvases with grand meaning. He famously remarked his works …

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The Best Booths at NADA New York, From Quietly Ominous Ceramics to Ecstatic Jazz Paintings

A booth at NADA New York, 2026. Kevin Czopek/BFA.com The New Art Dealers Alliance opened the 12th edition of NADA New York on Wednesday, coinciding again with the start of Frieze just five blocks north. Those who made the trip to Chelsea’s Starrett-Lehigh building on West 26th Street and 11th Avenue were greeted by not …

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At Independent, Joel Mesler’s ‘Death Wish’ Is Part Art Exhibit, Part Market Experiment

Joel Mesler, On the Couch, (2026) on sale at his booth titled Interiors at Independent. Courtesy Joel Mesler. Photo by Jessica Dalene Weber. At a coffee shop in Little Italy late last month, Joel Mesler leaned back in his chair and started explaining how he used to sell art in New York. Back when he …

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In Venice, Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince Ask: What Is Appropriate to Appropriate?

Arthur Jafa, Viriconium, 2026, installation view, in “Helter Skelter: Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince,” 2026, at Fondazione Prada, Venice. Photo Andrea Rossetti/Courtesy Fondazione Prada What is appropriate to appropriate? That question is the one that animates practices of Richard Prince and Arthur Jafa, who are currently showing their work together at the Fondazione Prada in …

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Controversial Painter Georg Baselitz Knew His Venice Show Would Be His Last. He Went Out Quietly.

Georg Baselitz’s exhibition at the Fondazione Cini in Venice. Courtesy Fondazione Cini Six days after the death of Georg Baselitz, his longtime dealer Thaddeaus Ropac opened an exhibition in Venice this week that the artist had already accepted would be his last.  At the Fondazione Giorgio Cini on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, “Eroi d’Oro” (“Heroes of Gold”) brings …

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Guadalupe Rosales Brings East LA to Venice for the Biennale

Guadalupe Rosales’s work in the 2026 Venice Biennale. Photo Maximilíano Durón/ARTnews In 2015, Los Angeles–based artist Guadalupe Rosales launched the Instagram account @veteranas_and_rucas as a way to share images from her personal archive of Chicana life in Southern California in the 1990s. In the decade since, the account has shared thousands of images and amassed …

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