Arts

To see Upson’s memorial exhibition at Sprüth Magers is to absorb the full intensity of the artist’s explorations of trauma, vulnerability, and abjection.

Local artists and curators took issue with a New York Times report announcing the demise of the local art scene in light of the departure of two blue-chip galleries.

Several artists told Hyperallergic that they had to learn about the event just a day before it opened.

The second Black woman ever hired as a New York Times staff photographer, Agins built her career at a time when photo editors gave very few assignments to women — much less to women of color.

The Utah Museum of Fine Arts presents artworks that make visible the quality and inequality of what we breathe.

The artist’s Freshwater installation at Philadelphia Contemporary features a living, breathing fountain, mussels and all.

What’s an artifact, what’s an artwork, what’s a prop, what’s decoration, what’s disposable — these are questions that Aguilar has taken up with great enthusiasm.

In Space Popular’s presentation at the Sir John Soane’s Museum the VR content does not complement the physical, but widens the gulf between art history and contemporary art making.

Every artwork at Arts in Bushwick seemed to be in dialogue with the uncertainty and unpredictability of the moment.

The Guyanese-British artist’s commission for the museum was created in a tense dialogue with collection objects that are connected to conquest.

This week, fictional characters with student debt, a Gen X guide to Web3, landlord rent increases, neoliberals and Salman Rushdie, money and happiness, and more.

The interplay between bodies and emotions in Goring’s work, and their potential to be transformative, reveals the politics that pump through the artist’s ever-exposed heart.

His detailed images of microscopic aquatic creatures suggest a version of Surrealism’s dream realities.

Korea’s Dansaekhwa artists eschewed the idea of art-about-art and commodity culture in favor of an abstract art imbued with traces of the struggle for liberation and cultural identity.

Ideal Home captures the disorientation of a moment in which environmental crises have pierced the domestic sphere.

Dwan helped pave the way when women-owned galleries were not so easy to find, or run.

The internet can be a crucible for both cruelty and the complexities of trying to counter it. What if we let the heroes stay dead?

Much coverage of the upcoming sale of the building that houses the mural portrays it as a covert intervention into the urban fabric, but the reality, like most things Banksy, is more complicated.

Artists are resorting to platforms like Onlyfans and Pornhub to show work that was banned from the social media network.

Wilson’s installation challenges not just outwardly violent historical figures but subtle colonial aesthetics still embedded in the city’s more liberal public monuments.