Artists

David Hockney, Painter Who Captured the Sensibility of ’60s Los Angeles, Is Dead at 88

David Hockney. Photo Victoria Jones/Getty Images David Hockney, one of the 20th century’s most famous artists, best-known for his depictions of the sunny glitz of 1960s Los Angeles, has died at age 88. His publicist, Erica Bolton, confirmed he “passed away peacefully” at home in London on Thursday, June 11, just one month away from …

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See Never-Before-Shown Martin Wong Works, Now On View in a Show Of His Chinatown Paintings

Martin Wong at home in San Francisco in 1990. Florence Wong Fie. Tucked away at a small institution in Chicago is an eye-opening show by beloved New York artist Martin Wong, a self-taught artist of Chinese-American descent who recorded a bombed-out Lower East Side and heroized his Asian and Latino contemporaries who lived there. “Martin …

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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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