Back in the Spotlight, Suzanne Jackson Pushes the Boundaries of What Paint Can Do
The day after Donald Trump was elected president, Suzanne Jackson’s son, an actor and film producer named Rafiki Smith, died. He…
Indigenous collective’s ‘World’s UnFair’ in New York imagines a decolonised future
The artist collective and self-described public secret society New Red Order is launching The World’s UnFair, an immersive spectacle and its…
‘The Material Activates My Imagination’: Watch Artist Daniel Lind-Ramos Build Poignant Assemblages Out of Salvaged Objects
As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. Right now in…
The Institutional Afterlives of Objects
At the Swiss Institute, New York, Jac Leirner’s sculptures and installations of discarded objects suggest the unseen exchanges of everyday…
Lonnie Holley’s Earthen Monuments Sing in a Survey Including Fellow Black Artists from the South
In his sculptures, Lonnie Holley utilizes terraneous materials—sand, stone, iron, the detritus buried beneath them—but remains steadily inspired by water. In “I…
At 99, the Painter Richard Mayhew Is Still Upending Expectations
With a show in Manhattan, he says he inherited from his Indigenous forebears “inventive consciousness.” By Jonathan GriffinThe writer is…
How an Installation by Architect Andrés Jaque Predicted New York’s Apocalyptic Orange Smog
When smoke from wildfires in Canada turned the New York City air orange last week, architect Andrés Jaque noted…
In Recognition: Ebony G. Patterson’s Multifaceted Practice taps Beauty of Botanical World to Start Conversations about Visibility, Violence, and Survival
ATTENDING ART SCHOOL in Jamaica, Ebony G. Patterson made a “classically inclined” painting that she didn’t love. Her undergraduate…
The artist who chronicled a generation lost to AIDS
Larry Stanton’s paintings are a touching tribute to a community of friends and artists gone long before their time. In…
Baruch Porras Hernandez: Multiple mediums, infinite joy
Baruch Porras Hernandez’s art encompasses everything from the written word to web comics and standup comedy to slam poetry. Dubbed…
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