Category: Art

Johannesburg painter Matthew Blackburn mixes PlayStation controllers, cereal and familiar 2000s objects with the visual language of classical still life.

Joshua Reynolds’s Portrait of Omai is set to go on view at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles from September 14, following conservation study and its joint acquisition with London’s National Portrait Gallery.

In Folded Memories, Los Angeles artist Estefania Ajcip uses layered paintings, plywood, papier-mâché, light and family photographs to revisit childhood separation between Guatemala and Los Angeles.

Creative Communication Award (C2A) 2026 is an international competition for communication design and creative media, open to professionals, studios, freelancers, emerging creatives and students worldwide. The final deadline is September 30, 2026.

Akira Ikezoe, “Not So Still Life with a Visual System” (2024), oil on canvas. (Photo courtesy the artist) Two paintings-in-progress by Akira Ikezoe in his studio. We burst into laughter again. The novelty of…

There is a convenience store floating on Lake Ontario, fully stocked. Well, we say “convenient”, but that’s definitely not the case. Called Global Convenience, it’s a new artwork moored at Harbour Square Park Basin…

One of the most enduring traditions in the U.S. is undoubtedly the state fair. The very first was held in Syracuse, New York, in 1841, and throughout the mid-19th century, states launched their own…

a new life for wasted resources in copenhagen In central Copenhagen during the city’s annual 3daysofdesign festival, Project Materia returns with an experimental new material. Titled Materia x Mater, the exhibition gathers nine artists around…

In Slow Burn, Shawn Huckins puts the cognitive dissonance that defines our current era in stark relief. The New Hampshire-based painter has long challenged American mythology and collective aggrandizing by reinterpreting canonical artworks and…

Daily Newsletter The assemblage artist donates her doll collection to the New York Historical, and we walk you through strong performance art at the Venice Biennale. A nude performer dangling upside-down from a giant…

Photography is often touted as the most democratic and accessible medium in the visual arts. Today, the majority of us carry phones equipped with powerful, easy-to-use cameras that capture our lives and the world…

“The world hums with beauty and danger, harmony and discord,” says Jake Messing. “We walk through these shifting currents every day. For as long as I can remember, I have turned toward the natural…

Announcement Connect with 250 international artists, publishers, and booksellers and celebrate the art publishing community at ArtCenter South Campus in Pasadena, California. Photo by Aleksey Kondratyev Initiated in 2013, Printed Matter’s LA Art Book…

an 18th-century carousel reborn in milan At Milan Design Week 2026, Laila Gohar presents her collaboration with ARKET through a public installation at Giardino delle Arti, where a reworked fairground carousel becomes the central device…

Weekly Newsletter Inside The Met’s new Raphael show, a curator’s lessons on community work, shows to see in New York and LA, and a riotous April Fools’ edition. Salvador Dalí’s paintings of Christ are…

Books Historian Atreyee Gupta unravels the threads of catchall terms like “Global South” to trace the connections between Indian painters and anticolonial figures like Frantz Fanon. Jagdish Swaminathan, “The Sign and the Altar” (1964),…

Art Review Artists Alex Chitty and Norman Teague give each other the permission needed to do something as heretical as saw an Eames chair into pieces. Left: Norman Teague, “Thonet Tray Chair” (2026), parts…

Is there anything more soothing than a sleeping baby swan—known as a cygnet? Or anything more illustrative of the relationship between nature and urban development in the U.K. than the red fox, which are…

From Do Ho Suh’s ethereal architecture to Kimsooja’s irridescent mirrors to Lauren Halsey’s fringed tapestry, a new book from Monacelli celebrates a broad spectrum of light and color. Rainbow Dreams features more than 200…

In 1968, aged 23, Canadian Paul Saltzman travelled to India with a cheap Pentax camera and no idea how to use it. He’d never studied photography. He couldn’t work out exposures. His only guide…