Art

Politics of Care

Clementine Keith-Roach explores motherhood and collective identity through modern ruins that blend personal and historical forms into fragile yet resilient vessels.

Words by 
Colleen Rodgers

Dispatch from Contemporary Istanbul

At art fair’s 19th edition, Osman Can Yerebakan explores the highlights amidst the city’s art world fixtures and international collectors.

Words by 
Osman Can Yerebakan

Patience is a Virtue

With its sprawling inaugural group show featuring every artist on its roster, Marian Goodman Gallery’s newly minted TriBeCa flagship gives a taste of what’s to come.

Words by 
Althea Champion

Cracks in the Pavement

The world is spinning out of control, and Meriem Bennani is excavating the center, fingers on the pulse as she digs beneath its surface. But what happens when she extends her exacting, witty, and nuanced perspective beyond the collective present? Orian Barki finds out.

Words by 
Meka Boyle

If the Walls Could Talk

In Cincinnati, Ohio, Chip Thomas’ mural of William Rankins Jr. captures the heart and soul of a community being pushed out by development.

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Meka Boyle

Moments in Eden

Magnum Photos and The Photo Society’s Square Print Sale explores the beauty of the planet and the role of humans in its prosperity.

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Marcus Gabrielli

Digital Superhighway

For artist Paige K. B., the work of dissecting and rearranging pillars of global image culture has just begun.

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Qingyuan Deng

Always Boiling Over

The world is burning, and Arthur Jafa is taking the temperature.

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Meka Boyle

Stranger than Fiction

This month, Gregory Crewdson brings his cinematic depictions of small-town America to Louis Vuitton’s exhibition space in Munich.

by 
Marcus Gabrielli

Analyze This

No stranger to the art and artifice of performance, Nora Turato stays wary of the authenticity trap. Her audience would be wise to do the same.

by 
Travis Diehl

Standouts at Frieze London 2024

From global group shows to local newcomers, Frieze London brings emerging and established artists together under one roof to showcase the latest in contemporary art. Here's what's of note.

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Ann Binlot

Good Enough To Eat

A savory Chanel dupe catapulted Chloe Wise into virality when it ended up on the red carpet of the luxury label’s very real event. A decade later, the irony may be quieter, but the appeal of luscious foodstuffs in inedible manifestations has taken over.

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Rachel Summer Small

Catch of the Day

For its American debut, irreverent Italian art collective Canemorto is staging a faux-fish market complete with drawings and paintings that come fried, frozen, and rolled up in jars of oil.

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Rachel Summer Small

Drawing a Circle

Larry Stanton compulsively sketched the people and world he belonged to—that of New York City’s gay community in the ‘70s and ‘80s. Now in Brescia, Italy, Apalazzo Gallery presents the late artist’s first-ever retrospective, four decades after his untimely death in 1984.

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Althea Champion

Three Notes of Destabilization

At a refurbished photo studio on New York’s Canal Street, three different artists use their respective styles to disrupt concepts of normalcy.

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Marcus Gabrielli

Clear Water

In his new suite of paintings, Kon Trubkovich looks to the much-loved Ophelia archetype—and discovers something new about himself in contemplating her reflection.

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Rachel Summer Small

Like Father

Steve McQueen reveals a deeply personal narrative harkening to his paternal heritage in a new video at Dia Chelsea. Upstate of the city at Dia Beacon, the artist breaks film down into its most fundamental constituents.

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Rachel Summer Small

Look and Listen

Jeffrey Gibson debuts art installations across New York City during Climate Week NYC and Creative Time Summit 2024.

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Marcus Gabrielli

Behind Closed Doors

Anne Buckwalter's intricate and lived-in interiors offer an intimate window into everyday queer life. At Rebecca Camacho Presents in San Francisco, the artist's solo show and first poetry book hone in on the details.

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Meka Boyle

Between the Lines

At Anonymous Gallery in New York, Kameelah Janan Rasheed’s cryptographic works illustrate the complicated process of sense-making.

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Althea Champion

Painting Pleasure Into View

Inspired by research and self-reflection, West Bank artist Rana Samara makes beauty from taboos.

Words by 
Rose Courteau

Moment to Moment

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

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Rachel Summer Small

For Kerala

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.

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Meka Boyle

Doll Parts

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.

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Ann Binlot

Into Space

David Zwirner’s Paris location reopens with Shio Kusaka’s futuristic vessels rooted in tradition—the artist’s first ever exhibition in the city.

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Marcus Gabrielli

Bombshell!

Ethan James Green’s solo show “Bombshell” presents a tender collection of portraits taken of his friends over a year in New York. Together, these images of Green’s muses embody, poke fun at, and expand the modern knockout.

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Althea Champion

Table Manners

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

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Alisha Wexler

With Love, From Provincetown to New York

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.

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Osman Can Yerebakan

Queering Alice Neel

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

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Meka Boyle

The Art World Returns From Summer Vacation

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.

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Vittoria Benzine