Art

A Benign God

Emma Stern’s uncanny universe is a reflection of the world as we know it: technicolor and computer-generated, desire-drenched and fantasy-filled.

Words by 
Gaby Cepeda

One Foot Forward

Movement takes Kyle Abraham places, and his audience is along for the ride. Time collapses into nostalgia and unflinching reckonings as the choreographer leaves it all on the floor.

Words by 
Rachel Summer Small

Guts and All

Martina Cox’s art is built around exploring what is beneath the folds of garments and outmoded craft practices. For her exhibition at the New York Estonian House with Alyssa Davis Gallery, she turns this inside out.

Words by 
Keegan Brady

Reliquary of Fierceness

At OCDChinatown, Devan Diaz’s “Bad Girls” is a pink altar to transsexual potency.

Words by 
Frances Lorenzini

The Future Imaginary

Beeple flew under the radar of the art world until a multi-million dollar NFT sale put him on the map. His first institutional solo show at China’s Deji Art Museum envisions the infinite paths forward for the world as it confronts technological acceleration—be they fantastical, pragmatic, or outright dystopic.

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Rachel Summer Small

Echoes of the Amazon

Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña’s solo exhibition at Lehmann Maupin in New York presents nature as a mirror.

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Jade Féraud

Swan Song

At Xavier Hufkens in Brussels, David Altmejd taps into his subconscious with new sculptures and drawings that are many things at once.

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Meka Boyle

Fall 2024 Art Commissions

The American meal torn apart into a jigsaw. A clock whose hands never quite leave you at peace. The distant and disparate in-between. These eight contemporary artists from diverse disciplines and backgrounds warp reality to radical extremes, forcing us to reconsider ourselves and our daily experiences.

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Osman Can Yerebakan

Hideaway

A new body of work by photographer Jesse Gouveia revisits childhood memories of fort-building while considering the poignant nature of time’s passage.

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Rachel Summer Small

Final Colors

 In Los Angeles, William Eggleston presents an exhibition of dye-transfer prints––the last of their kind.

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Marcus Gabrielli

Secret Garden

In her West Coast debut, Sabine Moritz enters new territory with works that include human forms, yet at the heart of it all is her love for nature.

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Meka Boyle

A Metropolitan Return

Legendary artist Lee Bul's latest project in New York City transforms the iconic facade of The Metropolitan Museum of Art—marking the museum's new collaboration with Genesis.

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Ann Binlot

A Not So Sweet Escape

Andrea Chung’s mid-career retrospective at MOCA North Miami interrogates the history of colonialism through a wide array of angles and mediums—including a sugar-based installation with a disturbing hidden message.

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Rachel Summer Small

Don’t Look Up

Samara Golden’s body of water made of hand-made objects is both claustrophobic and expansive. At the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas, it begs to be seen, and sat with, in person.

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Meka Boyle

Painting Time

Ada Friedman marches into mysterious territories, guided by the words of the late poet Helen Adam.

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Qingyuan Deng

It’s in the Eyes

A quiet yet entrancing new suite of paintings from Francesco Clemente debuts at Lévy Gorvy Dayan, pulling from his extensive travels and inner reflections alike.

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Rachel Summer Small

The Rehearsal

Isabelle Albuquerque is expanding, making room for flowers and other forms to grow from her self-referential practice. For her current two-person show with the late artist Robert Therrien’s estate, her sculptures become charged with a new energy.

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Meka Boyle

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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