Artists

What Is The Game of Exquisite Corpse, and Why Do Artists Still Play It?

André Breton, Jacqueline Lamba, and Yves Tanguy, Exquisite Corpse, 1938 Collection of the Musée National d’Art Moderne/Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Digital Image copyright © CNAC/MNAM, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Art Resource, New York. Artwork copyright © 2026 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris (Breton, Lamba); copyright © 2026 Estate of Yves Tanguy/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New …

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Thomas Rom, Art Adviser and Performance Space Chair, On His Top Exhibitions in Venice This Year

Miet Warlop’s “IT NEVER SSST” at the Belgium Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale. Courtesy Thomas Rom This year’s Venice Biennale vernissage week brought more than the usual round of openings for art adviser and Performance Space New York board chair Thomas Rom, as the institution’s Visionaries Circle co-hosted a performance by theater impresario-turned-artist Jordan …

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How Gedi Sibony Makes a Show, By Transforming Street Finds Into Magical ‘Frozen Moments’

Gedi Sibony at Greene Naftali Gallery, New York. Christopher Garcia Valle/ARTnews The latest show by Gedi Sibony continues the artist’s practice of making enchanting assemblage sculptures out of the most minimal means, and of making paintings that rely on such restrained gestures that they’re barely there. The press release for “The Invisible Point,” his eighth …

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Zohra Opoku, a ‘Woven Storyteller,’ Is Shapeshifting Her Way into Africa’s Biggest Museums

Zohra Opoku. Photo Jesse Jewelz/Courtesy Zeitz MOCAA In 2023, Beata America, a curator for the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, made a research trip to Ghana. Accompanied by her colleague Julia Kabat, America ended up visiting the Accra studio of Zohra Opoku, a Ghanaian German artist whom Zeitz MOCAA director Koyo Kouoh “had always …

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SXSW London’s Art Program Spotlights Spain’s ‘Underrated’ Contemporary Art Scene

A still from Enrique Agudo’s four-channel installation, “You Are Beautiful,” on view in SXSW London’s art program. Courtesy SXSW London South by Southwest (SXSW) London returns for its second edition next week, taking over more than 20 venues clustered around the Trueman Brewery in Shoreditch. Known for its mix of technology, business, and music, and …

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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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