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Iran-born, Los Angeles-based artist Tala Madani‘s artworks are nothing if not purposeful. Her images are incisive and witty, homing in on themes of geopolitical conflict through an art historical lens. Madani’s animations and paintings reflect a portrait of humanity as a cruel, beautiful, and conflicted species. Right now, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles is presenting the first-ever North American survey of Madani’s ...

For the first time in more than 20 years, German artist Wolfgang Laib is returning to the U.K. with a solo exhibition. The show, titled “Wolfgang Laib: City of Silence,” is on view at Thaddaeus Ropac gallery in London through October 3, 2022. It features new work that builds on themes the artist has explored throughout his career, including Minimalism, Taoist teachings, and the ...

In 2022, Dark Horse Comics and Dark Horse Direct will celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Mike Mignola and Dave Stewart’s seminal Eisner Award-winning comic The Amazing Screw-On Head and Other Curious Objects with a brand-new fine art print, featuring all-new art by Mignola and Stewart. This limited-edition print measures 18” x 24”. It will be limited to 300 prints and will retail for $49.99. Fans ...

If you’ve ever lost an object on the New York City subway—an Airpod, necklace, pencil, or keychain—and assumed it was simply swallowed up by the massive transit system, think again. Since she was a child, New York-based artist Rose Salane has been fascinated by “objects that reflect the everyday movements of people throughout the city,” and she finds a lot of those objects—you guessed ...

When the Korean-born artist Do Ho Suh first moved to New York City, in 1997, he was lucky to find that a friend happened to be vacating his apartment, leaving an opening for Suh to take over the lease. Though the landlord was initially skeptical about Suh’s ability to pay rent, the artist stayed there for 18 years. When he was finally preparing for ...

Although the Paris-born artist Louise Bourgeois is best known for her monumental sculptures of spiders and her intimately scaled works in bronze, stone, and wood, Bourgeois, who died in 2010, was also an accomplished painter and textile artist. Now, two separate retrospectives are dedicated to the artist’s lesser-known mediums. The show at the Hayward Gallery in London, “Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child,” explores the ...

On a spring morning back in 2011, then-mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg welcomed visitors to the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s first major public sculpture project in Grand Army Plaza, near Central Park. The momentous occasion was marred of course, by the artist’s inability to attend the opening—because he was in the midst of an 81-day long incarceration by the Chinese government. A ...

Beginning today, Talking Galleries New York (April 4–5) is the first major in-person meeting of arts professionals in the city since the onset of the pandemic. Hosted in partnership with Schwartzman & Associates at Gilder Lehrman Hall at the Morgan Library & Museum, the symposium features conversations between nearly 50 industry insiders, market professionals, and collectors about the most pressing issues facing the field. See ...

Jeff Koons, the world’s most expensive living artist, has always had lofty goals for his art. Though he often uses everyday objects and pop-culture references as his inspiration—say, posing vacuum cleaners on pedestals and presenting them as sculpture, or rendering balloon animals in mirror-polished stainless steel—his genius is to elevate these humble referents icons. As Koons insists, “Art should be something really powerful.” Earlier this ...

The first thing that Azikiwe Mohammed wants you to know about him: “My job isn’t the capital ‘A’ art person.” A self-proclaimed “guy who makes stuff,” the list of what Mohammed creates is long: jewelry, plastic objects, paintings, puppets, embroidered tapestries, neon sculptures, and clothing, to name just a few. You might come upon Mohammed in Astor Place, where he holds court in front of a ...