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 …
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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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 …
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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Akira Ikezoe. Christopher Garcia Valle/ARTnews Akira Ikezoe has recently been thinking a lot about all that can be done with milk. It can be obtained from a cow, packaged, sold, and consumed, yes. But what if you could paint with it, or bathe in it, or even become resurrected by drinking it? These are all …
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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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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 …
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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Gabrielle Goliath’s “Elegy” at La Chiesa di Sant’Antonin in Venice. Photo Luca Meneghel/Courtesy the Artist The South Africa Pavilion in the Giardini will sit empty for the entirety of this year’s Venice Biennale, the result of a decision by culture minister Gayton McKenzie to cancel a planned pavilion by artist Gabrielle Goliath for being “highly …
Barry X Ball, Pope Saint John Paul II 2012–2024. Francesco Allegretto. When Carmelo Grasso, director and curator at the Abbey of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, saw New York–based artist Barry X Ball’s sculpture Pope Saint John Paul II (2012–24), he knew he wanted to mount a show at the sublime church where he works. …
