While big, international galleries flock to neighborhoods like Tribeca, the Lower East Side’s art scene still retains its edge. Here, emerging and mature artists with deep connections to the local art scene work through cutting-edge ideas in offbeat shows held in generally smaller spaces. The Frieze Art Fair, which opens at the Shed to VIPs in Hudson Yards today, will draw an international art ...
This week in New York, the main attraction for many in the art world will be the Frieze art fair, which begins welcoming VIPs on Wednesday. As with last year, it will take place in the Shed, an arts venue in Hudson Yards, and it will include around 60 exhibitors. This all means that anyone who comes to Frieze will want to pay a ...
Most people who come to Venice this week are there primarily to see the Biennale, the world’s biggest art festival. This year, there are more than 200 artists lined up to participate in the Cecilia Alemani–curated main exhibition alone, as well as dozens of national pavilions set to take place alongside it. But it is hardly the only show on in Venice during the ...
The Expo Chicago art fair returns this week to the city’s Navy Pier after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic. As with most art fairs, the local art scene puts on some of its best offerings for the year to draw out-of-town visitors to the homegrown talent that makes a city like Chicago the site of a major international art fair. Take a ...
For Raúl Guerrero’s first exhibition in Mexico, the veteran artist demonstrated his keen eye for urban environments via a series of paintings he made in 1994 to capture his experience in Mexico City. The paintings share the funny, fluid aesthetics of Mexican caricature and form a refreshingly peculiar narrative of the city, the long-mythologized, overgrown urban wilderness that sits at the center of the ...
That should stop some of your hot air! Labour's Angela Rayner shows off her state-of-the-art remote-controlled extractor fan despite boasting of her working-class credentialsMrs Rayner showed off the state-of-the-art appliance during an interview with Left-leaning magazine The New StatesmanThe fan, which is automatically stowed under the worktop when not in use, is remote-controlledSimilar items are on sale at John Lewis for between £1,500 and ...
At the end of a recent episode of HBO’s Euphoria, the camera looms on a character named Cassie, sick on love and lots of alcohol, crying amongst hundreds of hanging roses. As the shot zooms out, we see that she’s in her room, staring into a vanity mirror. It’s a moment that borders on magical realism. The flowers have no logical reason for being there, ...
Exhibition of the weekSurrealism Beyond BordersAn ambitious attempt to see surrealism not just as something that happened in Paris, Belgium and Spain but as a global movement with branches from Egypt to Mexico. Tate Modern, London, 24 February to 29 August.Also showingA Century of the Artist’s Studio: 1920-2020How artists create their own caves of creativity, from Picasso to Walead Beshty and Kerry James Marshall. ...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines FAIR PLAY. Running an art fair does not sound like a fun job these days, with case spikes and health regulations constantly threatening the best-laid plans. Art Basel Hong Kong is on the calendar for March (with a bevy of “ghost booths”), but has May dates as a backup, as ARTnews has noted. TEFAF Maastricht in the Netherlands ...
