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Why Is Salvador Dalí’s Persistence of Memory So Important?

Salvador Dalí, The Persistence of Memory, 1931 Digital image copyright © The Museum of Modern Art, licensed by Scala/Art Resource, New York. Artwork copyright © 2025 Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. The Persistence of Memory (La persistencia de la memoria) (1931) is a trifecta of superlatives: Surrealism’s most famous …

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Liz Collins Finds Transcendence Through Labor-Intensive Fiber Art

Liz Collins Christopher Garcia Valle /ARTnews Liz Collins had her work cut out for her when she conceived the two 16-foot-long tapestries she showed at last year’s Venice Biennale. Both textiles feature mountain ranges whose peaks emit rainbows that twist through a dark sky, and though they were among the largest works in the Biennale, …

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25 Trans Artists Breaking Boundaries

Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo) Courtesy of the artist. ArtNews kindly asked me to write about ten artists of the trans experience • but because there are so many I keep mental notes on • here instead are 25 • lists can sometimes feel so detached and I’m very attached to this subject • so …

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Carlos Agredano Is Documenting the Harmful Effects of LA’s Pollution

Carlos Agredano with his FUME sculpture. Photo Adali Schell/Courtesy the artist Artist Carlos Agredano grew up on a dead-end street in the shadow of the 105 Freeway in Lynwood, a city that borders South Los Angeles. In the early days of lockdown, he would trace a path that ran parallel to the interstate highway, an …

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Cara Romero’s Indigenous Futurist Lens Resists Erasure Through Humor and Strength

Cara Romero. ©Cara Romero/Courtesy the artist The photographs of Cara Romero operate on the precipice between the risk of death and possibility of self-dissolution. A woman buried in sand stares resolutely at the viewer, or a figure floats in a body of water below an oil field. Her lens fuses Indigenous ancestral memory with the …

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Guerrilla Girls: Fighting Discrimination, One Poster at a Time

Guerrilla Girls Kathe Kollwitz, Zubeida Agha, and Frida Kahlo during a press preview for the exhibition “Guerrilla Girls: Not Ready To Make Nice, 30 Years and Still Counting,” at the Abrons Art Center, New York, April 30, 2015 Copyright © Guerilla Girls, courtesy guerrillagirls.com. Photo: Andrew Hinderaker. As revolutionaries often do, the feminist collective known …

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Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova on Reclaiming Her Prison Time Through Art

Nadya Tolokonnikova: Police State, 2025, performance, at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Photo Yulia Shur. Courtesy LA MOCA. Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, a new ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world. More than a decade after Pussy Riot cofounder Nadya Tolokonnikova was imprisoned in Russia for …

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Why Is Velázquez’s Las Meninas So Important?

Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor), 1656 Collection of the Prado Museum, Madrid. Digital image: Wikimedia Commons Diego Velázquez’s 1656 portrayal of a Spanish princess and her entourage is one of the most important paintings in Western art history, if not the most conceptually complex by an old master. A deconstruction of the …

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Who Was Helen Chadwick, and Why Was She So Important?

Helen Chadwick making Piss Flowers, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, 1991 Artwork copyright © Estate of Helen Chadwick. Photo: Monte Greenshields. Courtesy of Banff Art Centre, Alberta, Canada. Helen Chadwick was obsessed with the restless, fleeting vestiges of things and feelings that had vanished—what she called “fugitive traces.” Her huge breadth of multimedia installations bloomed …

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Ahead of Art Basel, Katharina Grosse Sprays the Messeplatz with Color

Katharina Grosse. Photo Jean-Christophe Verhaegen/AFP via Getty Images Over the past 40 years, German artist Katharina Grosse (b. 1961) has gained many fans for using an airless spray machine to make eye-catching, color-saturated, and immersive paintings. Many of her works have been shown in museums and galleries—one from 2004 involved spraying paint across the Contemporary …

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