5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (447+ words) Our Upstate fall guide, Julio Torres and Martine Gutierrez’s aquatic performance, Snoopy fashion show in Manhattan, and more. I sipped the last dregs of summer collecting at the bottom of my (discreet) Tom Collins this holiday weekend, taking in the…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (259+ words) Following early market success and what he called “the pitfalls of gaining notoriety so early,” Smith shifted his focus to community-centered projects such as his nonprofit Serving the People. Artist Lucien Smith, an abstract painter whose work as a nonprofit…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (514+ words) The late artist and athlete who rendered joyous scenes of Black life, dance, and motion is the subject of renewed institutional attention as his daughter, Erin Barnes, works to conserve his studio practice. When artist Ernie Barnes died in 2009, his…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (230+ words) George Washington Carver is remembered as an innovative agricultural scientist, but his overlooked artistic work places him in a lineage of Black American natural dyeing traditions. This article is part of a series focusing on underrepresented craft histories, researched and…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (309+ words) Lia Strasser on what she got wrong about the AbEx couple, art world homages to Yayoi Kusama, and another museum heist?! Then, Strasser retraced her steps — from the Abstract Expressionist couple’s home in East Hampton to the formative moments that…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (219+ words) “Young Artists After Siamesa 1960” (2015) was removed from the US Embassy in the Dominican Republic and could be sold. The Department of State removed Kehinde Wiley's 2015 commissioned painting from the United States embassy in the Dominican Republic this month, claiming that…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (431+ words) New Triennial in Western NY, NYC’s investment in public art, and a beer with Rina Banerjee. I’ve always said that I shed worse than any dog I’ve ever met. To me, it’s just one of multiple familiar elements in Banerjee’s…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (212+ words) The Lisa Frank-hued tribute was commissioned for the exterior of a barn in Hess-Hathaway Park as part of the institute’s longstanding public art program. A horse named Champagne is the star of a new public mural in Michigan commissioned by…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (612+ words) Our favorite national pavilions at the Venice Biennale, Shirley Tse and Dana Berman Duff’s breathing moons, and Dean Millien’s aluminum-foil animal world. “After New York, Aruba,” instructs a subway ad with a video showing waves softly crashing against the rocks…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (214+ words) Tired of getting rejected year after year? Don't despair. Paddy Johnson is here to help. I've applied for the Guggenheim Fellowship for the last five years and got rejected every time. I believe I meet the required qualifications. Is this…...