Artists

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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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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