Artists

Through a Black Lens: 10 Institutional Shows of Work by Black Artists to See This Month

Tom Lloyd, Narokan, 1965 John Berens, courtesy of the Studio Museum in Harlem. Up until the 1950s, many American museums, particularly in the South, held separate days for Black people to see art and artifacts. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC), whose members included artists Faith Ringgold and …

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At 89, Martial Raysse, France’s Most Celebrated Pop Artist, Is Still as Productive and Restlessly Experimental as Ever

Artist Martial Raysse currently has on view recent work at Galerie Templon in Paris. ©Laurent Edeline When you get to the chance to meet a giant of the art world, it’s an opportunity you don’t pass up. Martial Raysse, 89, is one of those giants. The reclusive artist seldom grants interviews, but he welcomed me …

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Meet the Swiss Artist-Publisher Making Children’s Books With Artists Like Rachel Harrison and Martin Parr

Rachel Harrison’s book Hold Still, Henry! (2025) is published by Rookie Books. Rookie Books Rachel Harrison’s recent show “The Friedmann Equations,” at New York’s Greene Naftali gallery, was a highlight of 2025. To try to break it down briefly, it was classic Harrison: brainy, oblique, and funny. The show’s title alluded to mathematical formulas relating …

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‘Secret Mall Apartment,’ Documentary About Providence Artists Living In Mall, Releases on Netflix

Colin Bliss and Greta Scheing at “home” in Providence Place Mall. Michael Townsend/mTuckman Media Secret Mall Apartment, the 2024 documentary film recounting the story of several artists who secretly lived inside a Providence mall for four years, released on Netflix Friday. Originally released in theaters in last March, becoming one of the year’s hit documentaries, …

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Internet Personality MacKenzie Thomas’s Four-Hour Performance Collapses the Distance Between Art and the Artist

MacKenzie Thomas performs her four-hour show “I Said What I Said.” Courtesy of MacKenzie Thomas I saw a work this past week that I did not know how to critique. The premise of the performance was simple: MacKenzie Thomas, an internet personality with half a million followers across TikTok and Instagram, would read aloud everything …

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6 Works to Know by Grandma Moses

Granda Moses (Anna Mary Robertson) at work on one of her paintings at age 95, Eagle Bridge, New York, September 1955 Getty Images. “Her primitive paintings captured the spirit and preserved the scene of a vanishing countryside.” So reads the epitaph of American artist Grandma Moses (aka Anna Mary Robertson Moses), whose lifetime remarkably stretched …

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