People Young Chinese Art Star Jia Aili on Why He Filled His New Gagosian Show With Paintings of the Apocalypse The Beijing-based artist spoke with artnet News on the occasion of a 10-year survey at Gagosian in New York. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 29, 2019
People The Maverick French New Wave Filmmaker Agnès Varda Has Died Known for her eternally youthful spirit, Varda was active as both an artist and a filmmaker into the last years of her life. By Kate Brown, Mar 29, 2019
People A Look Back Through Pictures at the Once-Forgotten Young Women of the Bauhaus While the school was highly progressive for its time, its female students were at a disadvantage. By Kate Brown, Mar 28, 2019
People Visiting the Studio of Gina Beavers, the Painter of Modern (Instagram) Life “I don’t know how to talk about this existence without talking about consumption,” the artist explains. By Tatiana Berg, Mar 28, 2019
People ‘I Was So Afraid for Way Too Long’: Painter Jonas Wood on How Going It Alone Helped Him Survive His Immense Market Success Wood's advice for young artists trying to make a living? Don't take money from dealers. By Pac Pobric, Mar 28, 2019
People See Proposals by Mickalene Thomas, Firelei Báez, and Others for a Monument to the First Black Woman to Serve in Congress The statue will be installed in Brooklyn in late 2020. By Sarah Cascone, Mar 27, 2019
People Does the Holy See? Pope Francis Collaborated With Domingo Zapata and Mr. Brainwash on a Painting at the Vatican The trio painted a canvas celebrating immigrants. By Sarah Cascone, Mar 22, 2019
People Artist Sterling Ruby Is Launching His Own Fashion Collection to Explore the ‘Behavioral Power of Clothing’ The artist has previously collaborated with Calvin Klein designer Raf Simons. By Sarah Cascone, Mar 20, 2019
People Photographer Alec Soth Made His Name Photographing Middle America. But ‘Middle America’ Isn’t What It Used to Be We spoke with the Minneapolis-based artist, who has four concurrent shows around the world and a new monograph to accompany them. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 19, 2019
People Want to Up Your Social Media Game? Here Are Some Tips From 5 Art-World Influencers to Perfect Your Online Presence These phenoms are curating more than just museum exhibitions—and their social media stars are on the rise. By Maxwell Williams, Mar 19, 2019
People ‘He Saw the Spaces Between the Margins’: Adrian Piper, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Others Remember the Legendary Curator Okwui Enwezor Artists whose careers he shaped and curators whose lives he changed discuss Enwezor's legacy. By Artnet News, Mar 18, 2019
People Artist and Filmmaker David Lynch on Why ‘Painting Will Never Die’—But Why Movies About Painters Are Boring artnet News's Andrew Goldstein spoke with David Lynch about his background as an artist, and his failed quest to study with Oscar Kokoschka. By Andrew Goldstein, Mar 18, 2019
People Groundbreaking Artist and Filmmaker Barbara Hammer, Who Brought a Lesbian Gaze to Cinema, Has Died The artist died on Saturday after a long battle with ovarian cancer. She was 79. By Naomi Rea, Mar 18, 2019
People Okwui Enwezor, Nigerian Art Historian and Venice Biennale Curator Who Was a Force for Non-Western Art, Has Died at 55 The revered Nigerian-born thinker has died after a long battle with cancer. By Kate Brown & Naomi Rea, Mar 15, 2019
People Liu Ye, a Chinese Artist Whose Paintings of Children Reference Western Art History, Will Now Be Represented by David Zwirner The gallery will show the painter's work at Art Basel Hong Kong later this month and in a 2020 solo show in New York. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 13, 2019