Whitechapel Gallery is a bastion of artistic innovation. It’s a space where avant-garde ideas collide with cultural heritage to shape the evolving landscape of contemporary art.
McMillan’s paintings work in a similar way—not as illustrations of transformation, but as transformations themselves. Her gestures—brushwork, scratches, scumbling—do not simply describe a butterfly; they enact its becoming.
When I met Max about ten years ago, he had just returned from Venice, where he had done a performance: dressed in a fluorescent vest, he waved a tiny, ridiculous flag so that passersby would mistake him for a tour guide.
In 2020, the beloved Frick temporarily relocated to the former Whitney Museum’s Brutalist Breuer building. Five years later, the museum has re-opened with a glorious 220 million dollar renovation of the original Gilded Age mansion.
A poster for David Hockney's Paris exhibition has been banned from the metro because it depicts the artist holding a cigarette, in violation of French tobacco advertising laws.
Abdulnasser Gharem is a contemporary Saudi Arabian artist known for his thought-provoking works that explore themes of identity, transformation, and cultural heritage.
Brent Wadden creates abstract woven works that merge painting, design, craft, and folk art. By mounting his handwoven textiles on canvas, he blurs the boundaries between craft and painting.
An artist whose official portrait of Donald Trump was publicly lambasted by the president said his comments are "directly and negatively impacting" her business, threatening its future.
As far as sleepovers go, it’s a one of a kind: an overnight stay in a luxury bed in the middle of the National Gallery’s exhibition rooms, dreaming under the world’s greatest paintings.
Curated by Tan Shengguang, a senior curator of the Tsinghua University Art Museum, "On Tao, Tracing the Origin: The Art of Xu Lei" is organized by the Shenzhen Art Museum and co-organized by the YING Center for Contemporary Art.