People ‘What Happens When You Don’t Know What’s Going to Happen?’: Tavares Strachan’s New Performance Illuminates Histories Once Left in the Dark The artist's latest exhibition, "In Plain Sight," is on view at Marian Goodman in London. By Naomi Rea, Oct 7, 2020
People Why Did the National Gallery Postpone Its Guston Show? The Museum’s Director Says the Public Doesn’t Need a ‘White Artist to Explain Racism’ Right Now The director discusses the decision to postpone the museum's highly anticipated Philip Guston retrospective. By Julia Halperin, Oct 6, 2020
People Studio Visit: Textile Artist Billie Zangewa on Gaining Inspiration Through Tidying Up and Why She Found Kusama an Acquired Taste We caught up with Zangewa, a Johannesburg-based textile artist, ahead of her debut show at New York's Lehmann Maupin. By Artnet News, Oct 2, 2020
People ‘New Yorker’ Poetry Editor Kevin Young Has Been Named Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture Young was previously director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 1, 2020
People These Struggling Artists Found Success on TikTok. A Looming Ban on the App in the US Threatens What They’ve Built For creatives and institutions, the pending ban of TikTok and WeChat could mean significant losses of income and opportunity. By Zachary Small, Oct 1, 2020
People ‘I Don’t Scare Easily’: Martha Cooper on Crawling Her Way Through Train Tunnels to Become One of the Leading Photographers of Graffiti The photographer is having the largest retrospective of her work to date in Berlin. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 1, 2020
People Studio Visit: Artist Katie Bell Is Making Sculptures From Cast-Off Remnants and Walking Through a Subdued Times Square We caught up with the artist, a RISD MFA graduate, to hear about how she's spending her time. By Artnet News, Sep 30, 2020
People The New Innovators: How ArtNoir’s Larry Ossei-Mensah Went From a Bronx-Born Art-World Outsider to the Ultimate Insider "The first couple years I went to Basel I was staying in the hostel," Ossei-Mensah says. By Melissa Smith, Sep 30, 2020
People A Blade of Grass Director Deborah Fisher on Why She Let Her Staff Go to Save the Social-Practice Art Organization Fisher will become the only full-time employee of the socially engaged art nonprofit as it dramatically changes course. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 29, 2020
People Cindy Sherman Has Transformed Herself Into Clowns, Movie Stars, and Society Ladies. Now, She’s Tackling Her Toughest Subject Yet: Men The artist says she's often struggled with creating male characters because they "appeared generic and unsympathetic." By Osman Can Yerebakan, Sep 29, 2020
People Photorealist Painter Robert Bechtle, Who Captured the Bay Area in Painstakingly Faithful Detail, Has Died at 88 Bechtle's paintings almost always featured a car. By Caroline Goldstein, Sep 25, 2020
People Artnet Innovators and North Dakota Collectors Rob and Eric Thomas-Suwall Select Their Favorite Works From Artnet Galleries The couple became interested in collecting art after seeing a David Hockney retrospective in San Francisco. By Artnet Galleries Team, Sep 25, 2020
People Studio Visit: Artist David Altmejd on Cleaning His Studio for a Fresh Start and the Powerful Spiritual Teachings of Eckhart Tolle The artist tells us about how he stays sane during long stretches in the studio. By Nate Freeman, Sep 25, 2020
People ‘We Had Every Meal Together’: Artist Vivian Suter on the Close Artistic Collaboration She Forged With Her Late Mother Suter and her mother, the recently deceased artist Elisabeth Wild, both opened shows in Europe this month. By Kate Brown, Sep 25, 2020
People What I Buy & Why: New York Collector Sana Rezwan on Buying Art via PDF and the One Treasure That Got Away Rezwan is especially invested in supporting South Asian women artists. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 24, 2020
