Artist Chitra Ganesh on the cultural iconography that informs her work, working across a wide variety of mediums, and what we can learn from being attuned to process—both other people’s and our own. Your work connects histories of surrealism, mythology,…
For more than 40 years, the Chicago-based artist has made it his mission to paint black figures into the canon. WE COULD BEGIN IN Birmingham, Ala., where the artist Kerry James Marshall was born in 1955, his father a postal…
Junji Ito is often hailed as the best author to ever grace the world of horror manga. He has two upcoming series based on his works, one of which is a compilation of his short stories called Junji Ito Maniac: Tales From…
WHO IS HE? Wifredo Lam was a Cuban-born artist, best known for his large scale paintings which reference modernist aesthetics and Afro-Cuban imagery to explore themes of social injustice, spirituality and rebirth. Born in the small town of Sagua la Grande at the turn of…
Its 1968. The sharp sound of whistles fills the hallways of the Whitney, announcing the arrival of a new wave of artists. A politically charged egg hunt and scattered tampons. The eggs, both raw and boiled, painted black, saying “50%”….
Tony Gum’s award winning artistry involves grace, depth of expression and a self-reflective truth, which allows her to naturally transcend the confines of a singular narrative espoused through the arts. Her ethereal yet candid nature captured through her work, involves…
Tavares Strachan is known for his ambitious projects and intensive research, which have included expeditions to the North Pole and training as a cosmonaut in Russia. RIGHT NOW, SEVERAL hundred miles overhead, a golden urn with the face of a…
Elizabeth Catlett (1915–2012) was exiled from the United States due to the political themes she explored in her art. Her legacy is one of cultural belonging and activism that provokes conversations about the role of art among continental American neighbors:…
Wangechi Mutu, the Kenyan-born multidisciplinary artist best known for her clay and bronze sculptures and collage paintings, has been going to Storm King Art Center, in New York’s Hudson Valley, since she was a student at Cooper Union, and later…
We want to see the newest things. That is because we want to see the future, even if only momentarily. It is the moment in which, even if we don’t completely understand what we have glimpsed, we are nonetheless touched…
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