Theaster Gates, a social practice installation artist based in Chicago, is turning the history of Black labor in America on its head. Born in 1973 to a father who was a roofer, Mr. Gates embraced, too, a life of working…
Encountering Pierre’s dynamic, intensely colorful oil paintings, sculptures, and works on paper is like entering a spiritually charged, alternate world. Naudline Pierre’s debut exhibition at James Cohan gallery’s two Walker Street spaces has a spot-on title: Enter the Realm. Encountering her…
In a bare room upstairs from his art studio inside an industrial building in the South Bronx, Derek Fordjour watched as three puppeteers brought a character drawn right out of his paintings to three-dimensional life. The artist was forging yet another branch…
From the start of her career in the mid-1990s, Fernanda Laguna (b. 1972, Buenos Aires) has charted her own artistic path, making artworks with a unique visual style through a feminist lens. Featuring almost sixty works that span three decades, Fernanda…
The photographer and director’s first stand-alone exhibition honors his familial legacy, centers Black beauty—and examines what those concepts look like for the next generation. Over the last six years, Micaiah Carter has made a name for himself as a preeminent…
The hand-embroidered portraits of Black girls and women by Tampa-based artist Nneka Jones focus on themes of exploitation and empowerment. Her training as a painter informs her expressive application of layered thread. Jones, who earned a BFA from the University of Tampa…
The Brooklyn-based Pakistani artist Hiba Schahbaz attended art school in Lahore, Pakistan, where she discovered Indo-Persian miniature paintings made with tea. For centuries, the traditional style has been passed down directly from master to apprentice, only becoming available in an educational setting…
Red. The color of blood and of North Carolina’s rich clay soil. The powerful color of the clay comes from the iron oxide mineral, hematite, stemming from the Greek word for blood, haima. Born on November 28th, 1907, in Charlotte,…
CNN — She’s dodged protesters in Greece, met the pope at the Vatican and posed beside the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Now a 12-foot-tall puppet is bringing her message to the United States as she walks the streets of New York City. Artists created Little Amal,…
With humor and fantasy, Kent Monkman disrupts clichés of Native victimhood at the Met. Coonskin caps for Christmas! I was a kid in mid-20th-century America. The biggest cultural event I can remember from early childhood was Walt Disney’s gigantically popular “Davy…
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