Arts

“I’m not saying it’s a happy or pleasant face, but he has a unique look that is fun to capture.”

The position Shear has been defining in his work is one that accepts, contemplates, and reimagines the possibilities of abstract painting.

Born with a speech impediment that made him unintelligible to many people, Lemko artist Nikifor turned to drawing as a means of communication.

“As a Jewish-American person, there’s a story out there that I have not been privy to,” says Toby Millman.

Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very Los Angeles art events this month, including Carmen Herrera, Robert Russell, Olivia Mole, and more.

In taking aim at contemporary corporations, especially oil companies, Cuevas draws a connection between colonization, trade, and the devastation of the natural world.

Queer Power! A Time Travelling Coloring Book honors LGBTQI+ activists and cultural icons.

Artist Nicki Green sees the traditional bathing ritual as a site where trans and nonbinary people can embrace their gender identity. 

She invites the viewer to contemplate all the ways we mark and live in time, and how much of what we record and keep we will eventually dispose of.

Artist Soo Kim’s latest series is about the act of arranging, about the impulse to create something with our hands for ourselves and for others.

René Mederos’s portrait of the Vietnamese leader calls us to that moment when the politician sat by a riverbank, theorizing and analyzing a world he wanted to change.

Goya neatly clothes himself in his own world of fantasy: He will have her in the end. In life, where the climate is much chillier, it was, alas, to be otherwise.

Bowen’s multimedia art is an alchemical mix of the sensuous and arcane, and it is more than a little witchy.

At this year’s Association of International Photography Art Dealers show, the best works offer glimpses into the personal lives of photographers and their subjects.

Furry friends and their pawrents can visit Athens’s National Museum of Contemporary Art for free this weekend.

It’s the artist’s largest LEGO artwork to date.

As part of Hyperallergic’s Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators, Sadaf Padder presents an exhibition to offer insight into her curatorial process.

Indonesian artist Mulyana crafts a tactile, mystical world in which fish, whales, and coral reefs coexist with sea monsters.

Serge Attukwei Clottey explores Ghanaian culture and identity through discarded jerrycans and other found materials.

Nothing in the artist’s personal biography could predict that she’d one day become a car builder and bikini model.