Installation view of “World Without End: The George Washington Carver Project,” 2024–25, at California African American Museum, showing, from left, Karon Davis’s sculpture George Washington Carver (2024) and Henry Taylor’s painting ‘Call Her Green’ Plant (2024). Photo Elon Schoenholz Historically, the relationship between Black Americans and the American South—in both the art world and the …
Liliane Lijn, Bridal Wound, 1986–90. Lewis Ronald/©Bildrecht, Wien 2024/Tate The Venice Biennale has traditionally been viewed as a survey of the present, but this year, it was arguably an exhibition about the past. More than half the 331 participants were dead, as sure a sign as any that a long-running trend for canonizing the uncanonized …
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Janet Olivia Henry. Christopher Garcia Valle for ARTnews Do you want a plastic shopping cart small enough to be pushed around by a doll? Go right ahead, and Google it—you’ll turn up many carts of that kind. But not so long ago, it wasn’t so easy to find objects like this on demand, the artist …
Installation view of Nour Mobarak’s “Dafne Phono”, 2024, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Courtesy the Museum of Modern Art, New York A well-known story from Ovid’s first-century narrative poem Metamorphoses goes something like this: after the sun god Apollo kills the snake-dragon Python, the god of love Cupid seeks revenge on Apollo …
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Samantha Box. Photo Farrah Skeiky After 12 years of photographing queer youth in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood, photographer Samantha Box came to the realization around 2018 that this sort of documentation was not work that appealed to her any longer. “I don’t believe in documentary photography anymore,” she told ARTnews during a visit to …
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Still from Niki, 2024. Courtesy Wild Bunch In 1952, Niki de Saint Phalle moved from the United States to France with her husband Harry Mathews and her infant daughter. Dark childhood memories, including ones involving her incestuous father, started to resurface, moving her to commit herself to a mental institution, where she received electroshock treatment. …
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Kathryn Andrews. Photo Ahrum Hong/Courtesy the artist 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. Artist Kathryn Andrews has long been interested in disrupting established systems by inviting viewers of her wide-ranging practice to join in actively interrogating common subjects of …
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Howardena Pindell, Untitled #3C, 2009, in “Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage,” Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. Artwork © Howardena Pindell, courtesy of the artist and Garth Greenan Gallery. This year, exhibitions around the globe highlighted Blackness, celebrating the Black artistic vanguard and …
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A still from Matthew Barney’s DRAWING RESTRAINT 28 (2024). Photo David Regen/©Matthew Barney/Courtesy the Artist, O’Flaherty’s, and Gladstone Gallery There’s no gallery show this year with a more eyebrow-raising title than “The Bitch,” and it would be hard to think of a more singular setting for a duo presentation of art by Matthew Barney and …
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Hassan Hajjaj (right) explaining the Dar Miami 1446 project to Miami Heat player Jimmy Butler. Photo Bre Johnson/BFA.com Hassan Hajjaj is among the leading photographers of his generation. Born in Larache, Morocco, in 1961, he moved to London when he was 12. The contrast between the life he knew in Morocco with what he saw …
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