In paintings and handcrafted books, the artist layers lush themes from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Vietnamese history, and explores our relationship to nature. The artist Tammy Nguyen was visiting a small island in Indonesia a few years back, when she came across…
WATER AND ITS MANY THEMES, characteristics, and metaphors is central to the practice of Calida Rawles and serves as an anchoring through line in her paintings. A hybrid mix of hyperrealism and abstraction, her poetic images capture men, women, and…
The artist’s debut museum exhibition “Threading Memories” is now on view at the Princeton University Art Museum. Twist ties, pipe cleaners, and spools of thread are neatly nestled in the home studio of artist MiKyoung Lee. These humble, craft-oriented materials form…
Harper’s is pleased to announce After These Messages, Wisconsin-based artist Keith Jackson’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The presentation features ten new oil paintings by Jackson and is on view at the Los Angeles space through December 16, 2023. Keith Jackson’s approach to…
Native American artist G. Peter Jemison, who lives and works near Rochester, New York, has been exploring Seneca traditions in many mediums since the 1960s. His work features in “The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans,” a…
Curated by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, ‘The Land Carries Our Ancestors’ showcases contemporary work by roughly 50 Indigenous artists It wasn’t until 2020 that the National Gallery of Art made its first acquisition of a painting by a Native American artist:…
A frisky group of Indigenous performers, videomakers and sculptors have a presence in the art world they haven’t had before. A MAGA-style baseball cap, scarlet and sloganeering, sits on a shelf, as if for sale, surrounded by other promotional retail:…
The sculptor of sublimely coiled wire helped erase boundaries between art, craft and the decorative arts. A long-awaited show of drawings at the Whitney explores her luminous connections. A meandering stroll is a thing of leisure. But the meander is…
At David Zwirner, New York, plants drawn from Eastern Nigeria and Los Angeles coexist with figures and settings sourced from magazines, books and family photographs. A profusion of leafy matter spills out across the surface of Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s Dwellers: Native…
The Accra-based artist is preparing for a major commission at the Tate Modern in London, which opens this fall. One could call El Anatsui the godfather of the artistic scene that has erupted in Ghana in the last decade. At…
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