Art

Violet Dennison tackles abstract painting as both a reflection of feelings and the sensations of living in the contemporary.

Rajiv Menon Contemporary celebrates Indian art and culture with a group show dedicated to the Onam festival, including new work by Melissa Joseph. A dinner on opening night unites Los Angeles’ art world and its South Asian community.

After an electrifying Seoul Art Week, a new crop of artists have emerged. For painter Jiwon Choi, whose detailed oil paintings of porcelain dolls took home a Kiaf Highlights Award, this is just the beginning.

Still life is not dead. Case and point: James Cohan Gallery’s group show, where the tradition is mastered, decoded, and fashioned anew by 20 contemporary artists

Ptown’s established Fine Arts Work Center celebrates its 56-year-old residency program with a group exhibition at The Armory Show in New York this week.

At David Zwirner in Los Angeles, Hilton Als presents an expansive look into the late artist's paintings documenting the queer community.

At this year’s Armory, photography, geometric abstraction, and minimalist offerings are plenty, and spectacle is few and far between, save for the famous art world faces spotted lingering at the fair’s buzziest booths.

When Lena Henke enters a room, she looks at the walls, the floors, the objects on the counter, those discarded in the trash, and she sees more than just interior design: She sees history, power dynamics, traces of memories, boundless sources for inspiration.

South Korea’s oldest art fair prepares for its biggest edition yet.

In Días, Pia Riverola presents a sun-soaked collection of images taken from Japan to Rome.

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Kitchen furniture melted into a metal slab and a man made out of bubblegum. Menus written on apples and cakes that look like an ear of corn or a Christmas ornament: These 12 chefs and artists take everyday materials—say, objects in our desk drawers or our pantries—and transform these mundane items into ingredients, with results inspiring as they are surprising.

At Meredith Rosen, close-up and fragmented self-portraits by the late Swiss artist Hannah Villiger are a convergence between sculpture and photography—on view in New York City for the first time in two decades.

Through paintings rich with color and joy, Chelsea Ryoko Wong intertwines imagined interactions, poignant memories, and landscapes with stories of communities from near and far.

As a child in Montréal, Gab Bois gazed into a postcard of The Birth of Venus hanging in her bedroom and dreamed of Botticelli’s inner world. In the kitchen, she watched her father carve butterflies out of cheddar cheese with a pocketknife. Since then, carbs, grass, and soaps have become still-life sculptures enshrined in photographs. If you can eat it, Bois has likely designed it into something else, somewhere else to dive into.

The Watermill Center's Annual Summer Benefit this past weekend celebrated 100 years of its legendary building and experimental choreographer and dancer Lucinda Childs.

Scottish painter Andrew Cranston revisits his home of nearly 30 years in a new series of haunting works at Karma in Los Angeles.

Two Turkish curators invited artists to turn Greece’s most unexpected destination into a historical wonderland filled with contemporary art.

In Santa Fe, Teresita Fernández juxtaposes her layered practice with works from the late artist Robert Smithson, as well as a third, liminal space that emerges between.

 vanessa german’s new sculptures are artifacts of a cosmic pursuit of being. “What if site-specificity was a type of love?” the artist asks. The answer is in the material. 

“Night Market” at Christie’s New York meditates on rituals tied to community and identity with works by 34 intergenerational artists of Asian and Pacific Islander descent.

Antwaun Sargent’s new two-part exhibition, “Social Abstraction,” which opens at Gagosian Beverly Hills tomorrow, unearths a deeper social context within Black abstraction.

For Gordon Parks’ posthumous debut at Pace Los Angeles, Kimberly Drew has culled images from the photographer’s paradigm-shifting archives that capture humanity in the face of a historically discriminatory American South.

A sprawling group show at Louise Alexander Gallery in Porto Cervo, Italy, explores themes of beauty through lush visuals and ambiguous narratives.

Nothing says summer in New York like a slew of July group shows before galleries shut their doors for August and everyone juts off to somewhere cool or coastal to escape the heat.