How Maria Qamar’s Feminist Desi Pop Art Went Viral on Instagram, Charmed Mindy Kaling, and Broke Into the New York Art World

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How Maria Qamar’s Feminist Desi Pop Art Went Viral on Instagram, Charmed Mindy Kaling, and Broke Into the New York Art World

The Instagram sensation makes art about the millennial Desi experience.

By Sarah Cascone, Aug 22, 2019

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Takashi Murakami Has Covered Practically Every Square Inch of a New Hong Kong Art Center With His Colorful Work. See the Show Here

The exhibition includes very weird mannequins of the artist.

By Kate Brown, Aug 22, 2019

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‘Being an Artist Is a Pursuit of a Feeling of Freedom’: Watch Avery Singer Combine the Digital and the Analog to Put Her Own Twist on Painting

As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words.

By Caroline Goldstein, Aug 22, 2019

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‘I Wanted to Leave Something in Return’: Artist Claudia Comte on Why She Installed Permanent Underwater Sculptures Off Jamaica’s Coast

The cast concrete sculptures will help with the revitalization of the coral reef.

By Sarah Cascone, Aug 19, 2019

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‘I Didn’t Want to Make What Looked Like Art’: Watch Cindy Sherman Transform Herself Into Female Fantasies, Stereotypes, and Nightmares

As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words.

By Caroline Goldstein, Aug 15, 2019

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Liam Gillick and an Austrian Art Collective Transformed Vienna’s Kunsthalle Into a Nightmarish Film Set—See It Here

A feature-length film will be released later this year.

By Kate Brown, Aug 14, 2019

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A New Edward Hopper-Themed Motel Room Allows You to Experience All the Alienation of the Artist’s Classic Paintings

You can spend the night in this painting, courtesy of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

By Caroline Goldstein, Aug 14, 2019

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Marvel at the Delirious Environments of SuperReal, a New Pop-Up Art Attraction Cooked Up by New York’s Glitziest Italian Restaurant

The Moment Factory and Cipriani are taking the pop-up museum to new heights.

By Sarah Cascone, Aug 9, 2019

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‘You’ve Got to Be a Bit Utopian’: British Artist Yinka Shonibare CBE Explains What it Takes to Be an Artist

As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words.

By Caroline Goldstein, Aug 8, 2019

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With Its New Show of Sam Gilliam’s Painting, Dia Wants to Explode Our Assumptions About Minimalism

A new installation of early work by Sam Gilliam will be on long-term view at Dia Beacon starting August 10.

By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 8, 2019

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teamLab’s Tokyo Museum Has Become the World’s Most Popular Single-Artist Destination, Surpassing the Van Gogh Museum

More than two million people visited the site in its first year.

By Naomi Rea, Aug 7, 2019

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See Why Hyman Bloom, the Forgotten Modernist Who de Kooning Once Called ‘the First Abstract Expressionist,’ Is Having a Comeback

The artist was a master of macabre yet beautiful paintings of the decaying human body.

By Sarah Cascone, Aug 5, 2019

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Artist Rashid Johnson on How ‘Naiveté’ and Chutzpah Helped Him Land His First Solo Show

As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words.

By Caroline Goldstein, Aug 1, 2019

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A Miami Museum Is Launching an Exhibition Exclusively Made for Instagram. It’s Called ‘Joyous Dystopia,’ of Course

The show launches today via Instagram.

By Caroline Goldstein, Jul 31, 2019

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Shepard Fairey Returns to a New York Building He Tagged as a Student to Create a City-Sanctioned Mural of Rosario Dawson

Fairey's water tower mural celebrates women's empowerment on a landmark building where he used to graffiti illegally.

By Sarah Cascone, Jul 29, 2019