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The Cultivist and Maestro Dobel Bring Power-Lunching to Miami Art Week

On December 1, the Cultivist hosted its sixth annual artist lunch at the Setai Miami Beach....

ARTIST STATEMENT
Tesfaye Urgessa’s Poetic Canvases Invite Closeness and Compassion

With intimately intertwined figures rendered in smooth brushstrokes and muted hues, the first...

ART
For Freedoms Keeps the Iranian Fight for Liberation in Plain Sight

The artist collective (and super PAC) reimagines television news—and billboard advertising—in...

FILM
In a Crushing New Film, Nan Goldin Shouts Her Truth From the Trenches

For “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” Oscar-winning director Laura Poitras offers an intimate

EXHIBITION
Madonna and Saint Laurent Bring “Sex” to Art Basel

To celebrate the groundbreaking book’s 30th anniversary, the French label is mounting an historic

ARTIST STATEMENT
You May View Nature Differently After Seeing Sarah Meyohas’s Holograms

By illuminating jewel-like clusters of glass panels with a spotlight, the crypto art pioneer and...

ART
For Creative Capital’s Christine Kuan, Supporting Artists Is Everything

As the president and CEO nears two years in her post—and the grant-making organization nears its...

ARTIST STATEMENT
A Surreal Snapshot of Chaotic-Good Partygoers

Anything goes in the ascendant painter Maggie Ellis’s frenetic, Goya-esque canvases, one of which

ARTIST STATEMENT
With Prison Yard Soil, Jared Owens Paints the Inhumanity of Incarceration

The curator of a powerful Miami Art Week exhibition with Silver Art Projects and Art for Justice...

ART
At COP27, Climate Reparations and Existential Artworks

Two weeks of tense negotiations at the UN’s annual climate conference created an unprecedented...

ARTIST STATEMENT
Didier William Imagines the Complexities, Fears, and Joys of Parenthood

Depicting a family overlooking a cliff as electricity surges through the sky, one of the Haitian...

ART
Inside Newark Liberty Airport’s Artful Reinvention

Layqa Nuna Yawar and Karyn Olivier enliven the airport’s soon-to-open Terminal A with artworks...

CULTURE CLUB
At Faena Art’s Annual Gala, Mismatched Patterns and Cultural Exchange

On Nov. 10, Faena Art held its annual gala at Faena Forum Miami Beach. In addition to an evening of

ARTIST STATEMENT
Cristina BanBan’s “Mujeres” Exist On Their Own Terms

Imbued with intimacy and poise, the Spanish painter’s fleshy portrayals of the female form share...

ART
Museums Are Tapping Ex-Military Pros to Prevent Climate Protests

As climate activists continue to deface priceless artworks with tomato soup and mashed potatoes in...