Art

More than half a century has passed since Peter Berlin defined gay imagery through his provocative self portraits. This week in LA, he enters the spotlight once again.

Present reality is the punchline of Sin Wai Kin’s debut U.S. show, with the artist intent on shattering narrative objectivity.

There is a private, far away world that artists return to time and time again. Its parameters, molded in childhood and chiseled away in practice. Like the natural landscape, it is always shifting, eroding, and regenerating anew. We can see it, too, eyes closed: a snow capped mountain, an ancient organism, our body, cosmic. Eyes open, gaze fixed, it is a coil on a vine, a statue, light streaming from a window.

French artist Laurent Grasso’s atemporal landscapes frame Nicolas Ghesquière’s new Louis Vuitton campaign for Spring/Summer 2025.

At a Napa Valley winery, Abraham Cruzvillegas maps local people and places: a departure from the binary way of charting land.

The late artist Dan Friedman's first solo exhibition since 1994 is on view at Superhouse in New York.

Identity, language, and mainstream rejections converge in a powerful symphony between the works of Glenn Ligon and the late composer Julius Eastman.

A dialogue between Reginald Sylvester II and the late artist Denzil Hurley unfolds throughout Canada, in which abstraction captures the nuances of the human condition.

Billy Childish works in the immediate. The artist’s latest show at Lehmann Maupin London situates viewers in nebulous winter landscapes that shimmer as dreams do.

Science fiction is often lauded for predicting what is to come. But what of its ability to confront history? Sedrick Chisom is prophetic in his rendering of worlds both tethered to the past and spinning outward into the future.

Collier Schorr’s Cosmos reveals the liminal space between artist and subject in an intimate dedication to friend and artist Nicole Eisenman.

A year in Italy’s capital led Todd Gray to reflect on his time in the music industry, with all its ecstatic visuals and calls to worship.

The world is material for Wilhelm Sasnal. The artist’s new exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery in New York reinforces his penchant for nonhierarchical images.

A new body of work by Huidi Xiang looks to Disney’s classic Cinderella to resurface and honor the unexamined labor of the princess’ eager-to-please critter friends—simultaneously acknowledging their historical real-world equivalents. 

Six empty dresses appear to float on their own at a Dimes Square gallery in New York. Indeed, Brandon Morris’ spectral vision is the natural outcome of his practical skills in fashion and his otherworldly aspirations as a fine artist.

 Bruce Weber’s exhibition in Prague feels ever-present, in part because the images abide by the prevailing cultural gaze that he helped create. 

At New York Life Gallery, James Bantone captures fleeting moments in foolproof materials.

Bulgari celebrates its new 2025 snake-like designs with the unveiling of the Serpentine’s first exhibition in Shanghai. 

Over two decades ago, Belgian artist Luc Tuymans opened a door for artists in China with his monograph. Now, one of the country’s most influential artists, he debuts his first comprehensive survey in Beijing.

Mariam Ghani makes sense of loss in an increasingly tumultuous landscape. Her new short film and sculptures offer alternative structures to hold grief.

Rick Lowe’s practice is religious: rooted in the world around him, enriching and restorative. When it comes to his paintings and community-oriented projects, art is a resource and a way forward.

The world is big, unfathomably so. This much Alicja Kwade knows. The rest, her work seems to posit, is ineffable—a stellar and atomic blip in time.

Creative Time addresses our most pertinent political and social concerns, amplifying them like a megaphone through monumental interventions that overtake vacant buildings, city streets, beaches, buses, and everywhere in between. At its core are its people who have changed the world for the past 50 years and counting.

Is the best art conceived in solitude? As Light and Space legend Larry Bell, who moved to the sparse Southwest from LA, reflects with the prolific Joan Jonas, a frequent traveler to the far-flung island of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, oftentimes the answer is yes.