Con lo zucchero in bocca (With Sugar in One’s Mouth) at Istituto Svizzero in Rome is a group show addressing the relationship between sweetness and extractivism; departing from the politics of sugar, it considers how colonialism, gender.
Ogden Museum of Southern Art announced the artists selected for the 2025 edition of Louisiana Contemporary, presented by The Helis Foundation, the Museum’s annual juried exhibition featuring work by contemporary artists from across the state.
In the autumn of 1989, photographer Nick Waplington was introduced to fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi through their mutual friend, the titan of photography Richard Avedon.
Portrait painter Amy Sherald, noted for her 2018 portrait of former first lady Michelle Obama in the National Portrait Gallery, has selected Kingsville-born artist René Treviño to present a solo exhibition at the Frieze London international contemporary art fair this fall.
“A gallery-style exhibition on the Upper West Side?” was a question I was asked by a few different friends and colleagues when I recounted my recent art excursions.
A visitor enters the new ground floor of the Modern, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and after handbag check is again briefly stalled by the guards.
This survey, organized by the Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden with the artist’s foundation in Suffern, New York, explores all facets of a sorely underappreciated painter, sculptor, and photographer.
One of Francis Picabia’s first art crimes was to produce Impressionist paintings that were based on photographs—and make money doing it—a perfect start to the scattershot anti-retinal agenda that Dada would exploit and his compatriot Marcel Duchamp would elevate to doctrine.
So arch, so witty, so guided by ideas is Alexis Ralaivao’s show that it might be construed as a revival of the anti-realist Mannerism of Pontormo or Rosso Fiorentino.