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 …
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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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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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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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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