People How Shantell Martin Turned Her Deceptively Childlike Drawings Into a Successful Multiplatform Business The young London-born, New York-based artist is currently the subject of the first ever visual arts residency at 92nd Street Y. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 16, 2018
Art & Exhibitions In Manila, a New Nam June Paik Show Is Taken as a Sign of the Growth of the Contemporary Art Market in the Philippines Co-organized with Gagosian and Leon Gallery International, the show marks the first time Paik’s work has been shown in the country. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 15, 2018
People An Artist Representing Grenada in the Venice Biennale Has Had to Launch a GoFundMe Campaign to Help Pay for the Pavilion Frank fled Grenada when he was 16. Now he’s representing the tiny country on the art world's biggest stage. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 15, 2018
Art World The Late Visionary Painter Ilse D’Hollander Comes to Life in a Poetic Video by Gautier Deblonde To mark a new show of D’Hollander’s work on view at Victoria Miro’s Mayfair location, the gallery has created a poetic video, overlaid with this text written by the artist. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 13, 2018
People ‘Contemporary Art Hates You’: John Waters, the Prince of Puke, on His New Retrospective The artist discusses the process of putting together his retrospective at the Baltimore Museum. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 31, 2018
Politics Street Artist JR Has Created an Epic Artwork About America’s Gun Debate, Collaborating With TIME Magazine The work, a video mural featuring interactive images of 245 Americans on all sides of the debate, is also going on view at Pace Gallery. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 25, 2018
Reviews The Carnegie International Wants You to Feel ‘Museum Joy’ Again, With Mr. Rogers, Vietnamese Coffee, and Its Own Past The latest edition of the country's oldest recurring survey of contemporary art opened this weekend at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 18, 2018
Art World Former Robocop Actor Peter Weller on How an Epiphany at a Picasso Show Motivated Him to Become an Art Historian Weller is giving a lecture in Detroit this weekend on the "Crisis of Beauty." By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 12, 2018
Art World Watch Artist Hugh Hayden Turn Texas’s ‘Trash Trees’ Into Sculptures That Explore How Society Divides Itself See a video produced for Hayden’s exhibition “Border States,” on view now at Lisson Gallery. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 11, 2018
On View A Palestinian Performance Artist Is Selling His Own Blood on Wall Street The performance piece is meant to bring attention to the violence promoted by America’s military industrial complex. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 10, 2018
People ‘History Is Dictated by Where You Stand’: Nathaniel Mary Quinn on Using His Neighbors as Subjects for Heartrending New Portraits Quinn’s newest exhibition “The Land” is on view now at Salon 94. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 9, 2018
Politics Tania Bruguera Stages an Impromptu Intervention at the Tate Modern in Solidarity With Jailed Photographer Shahidul Alam "Art never meant so much to me," says Alam's niece. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 4, 2018
Art World The Bronx Museum Is Launching a Manhattan Outpost to House Its Emerging Artist Program Past and present participants in the museum's Artist in the Marketplace program will have access to the space. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 28, 2018
Art World Ai Weiwei, Celebs, and a Live Hawk: Leonardo DiCaprio Will Host a Zero-Waste Art Auction to Raise Money for Wildlife Wayne Thiebaud will receive the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation’s inaugural Art and Environment Award By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 12, 2018
Art World See How This Photographer Recreated Erotic Works by Rodin, Schiele, and Picasso With Live Models When is an image pornography and when is it art? By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 7, 2018