Artists

Belarus Free Theatre to Present Venice Biennale Collateral Exhibition on Art Under Authoritarianism and Censorship

Belarus Free Theatre artists Sergey Grinevich, Daniella Kaliada, Natalia Kaliada, and Olga Podgayskaya. Photo Francesco Barasciutti The Belarus Free Theatre, an underground theater group in exile since 2020, announced Wednesday that it will stage the exhibition “Official. Unofficial. Belarus.” as an official collateral event of the 61st Venice Biennale. The show, to be staged at …

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The 2026 Whitney Biennial Includes a Video Game Designed by Leo Castañeda You Can Play At Home

A screenshot from Leo Castañeda’s Camoflux Recall Grotto. Courtesy the artist and Whitney Museum While the Whitney Biennial isn’t set to open its 2026 edition to the public until Sunday, anyone can get a sneak peek at one work in the show: Camoflux Recall Grotto. The work, a video game by Colombian artist Leo Castañeda, …

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In New LA Show, Takashi Murakami Shows That Influence Flows in Two Directions

Portrait of Takashi Murakami at the exhibition “Hark Back to Ukiyo-e: Tracing Superflat to Japonisme’s Genesis” at Perrotin Los Angeles, 2026. Photo Guillaume Ziccarelli; ©︎Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved; Courtesy Perrotin. Takashi Murakami closes his eyes when he speaks. Still, this makes him no less animated: his hands gesture wildly, the pitch …

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Yuko Mohri’s Fragile Sculptures Confront the Inevitability of Change

Yuko Mohri’s fragile installations composed of secondhand goods have made her into a star. Photo Christopher Garcia Valle/ARTnews On the first preview day of the 2024 Venice Biennale, a torrential downpour sent artists, curators, journalists, and dealers scurrying for shelter. While others fretted about how the art on view would weather the sheets of rain, …

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Nan Goldin’s Photobook The Ballad of Sexual Dependency Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary at Gagosian

Nan Goldin, Greer and Robert on the bed, New York City (1982) from “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,” 1973–86, 126 archival pigment prints, in frames, each: 15 3/4 × 11 × 1 1/8 inches (40 × 27.9 × 2.9 cm), overall dimensions variable, edition of 10 Artwork copyright © Nan Goldin. Digital image courtesy the …

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From Gorillaz to the Port of Los Angeles: Stephen Thomas Gallagher to Debut a Trippy New Film During Frieze LA

Still image from Stephen Thomas Gallagher, Sunset – The Jubilation of The Baboons (2026) Courtesy of SWEAR Studio There are many people who say they have the coolest job in the world. Stephen Thomas Gallagher might actually have a case. He designs live shows for Gorillaz and Lana Del Rey. He helped build a blazing London tower block …

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For 83-Year-Old Artist Mia Westerlund Roosen, Endurance Rather Than Attention Has Fueled Her Creativity for Decades

Mia Westerlund Roosen, Heat, 1981, installation view, at Nunu Fine Art, 2026. Photo Martin Seck/Courtesy the artist and Nunu Fine Art When artist Mia Westerlund Roosen debuted her conical sculptures, which unmistakably recall phalluses, at the “25th Anniversary Exhibition of Leo Castelli” in 1982, she did so as a form of feminist protest. The exhibition, …

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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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