Art

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

Wrecking Ball

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.

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Gisela Williams

Coming to Kiaf

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

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Ann Binlot

Moments of Sun

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

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Marcus Gabrielli

Summer 2024 Art Commissions

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.

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Family Style

Navel Gaze

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.

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Meka Boyle

Line in the Sand

In the Whitney’s de facto last show of the summer, 11 artists use drawing to probe what lies inside—and beyond—the corporeal.

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Althea Champion

Wax, Fire, and Light

Doki Kim’s practice is many things at once. Cosmic and corporeal, the artist’s new exhibition looks to natural phenomena to better understand the human condition.

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Meka Boyle

At Large

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.

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Ann Binlot

Food Play

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.

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Family Style

Moving the Earth

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

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Ann Binlot

Blurred Bodies

Jen DeLuna paints vintage, nude photographs of women in a new light. Her debut solo exhibition at Storage in New York positions the artist as one to watch.

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Bryan Martin

The Glory of Glasgow

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

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Rachel Summer Small

Island Time

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

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Ann Binlot

Site Specific

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.

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Meka Boyle

Spiritual Technology

 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. 

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Meka Boyle

Passing in the Night

“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.

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Rachel Summer Small

Social Studies

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

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K.O. Nnamdie

Images that Speak

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.

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Ella Ross Russell

Something to Behold

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

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Rachel Summer Small

Group Show Summer

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. 

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Meka Boyle

Like a Faucet

Wendy Red Star’s exhibition at Roberts Projects is the artist’s first in Los Angeles in nearly two decades. It’s underscored by a trio of other projects across the globe. 

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Alisha Wexler

The Materials We Carry

Cassandra Mayela Allen’s large-scale textile works reinvigorate material and memory. At Olympia Gallery in New York, the artist considers the fragmented immigrant experience.

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Lila Gamble

From the Ground Up

In upstate New York, a weekend of performance launches Art Omi’s summer season, which features immersive exhibitions by Kiyan Williams and Riley Hooker.

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K.O. Nnamdie

You Are What You Eat

As the natural world rapidly transforms due to anthropogenic impact, Cooking Sections have developed an approach that fuses art and research to imagine sustainable consumption. They call it “climavore.”

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Evan Moffitt

Fever Dance

Alexandra Bachzetsis communicates the frenetic energy of her personal transformation in the New York debut of her exhibition and performance “Notebook.” 

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Lila Gamble