Ron Norsworthy Imagines a “Narcissus” for Our Times
In his newly opened exhibition at Edwynn Houk Gallery, the queer image maker’s poignant collaged...
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Dia Art Foundation Rings In 50 Years
On Nov. 4, more than 400 artists, philanthropists, museum directors, curators, and art-world...
Celebrating 70 Years of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art
On Oct. 29, the Smithsonian Archives of American Art held its annual gala at Rockefeller Center’s
Franklin Williams Is (Still) In It for Himself
The California-based artist and educator combines folk art, textile craft, sculpture, and...
Alteronce Gumby Is Embracing Nature’s Interconnectedness
After he started hiking and connecting with the outdoors more, the Bronx-based artist and avid...
Creative Time’s Community Rings In 50 Years
On Oct. 30, Creative Time marked its 50th anniversary with its largest annual gala to date, drawing
An Evening of Milestones for the Studio Museum in Harlem
On Oct. 28, leaders of the Studio Museum in Harlem welcomed more than 700 artists, cultural...
Inside the IFPDA Foundation’s Annual Benefit at Christie’s
On Oct. 21, the International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Foundation held its annual...
Skowhegan’s Annual Awards Dinner Draws a Crowd
On Oct. 22, New York’s top artists and art supporters gathered at Guastavino’s for Skowhegan...
At Its Annual Gala, Aperture Eyes Its New Home
On Oct. 17, New York’s creative community gathered at the Mandarin Oriental to celebrate...
At Its 2024 Gala, Pioneer Works Puts On a Show
On Oct. 8, New York’s creative community flocked to Red Hook to celebrate the long-awaited...
Supernatural Phenomena Light Up Dominic Chambers’ Imagination
An activity as mundane as walking his dog at the park pushed the cerebral New Haven painter to...
A Night to Celebrate Renell Medrano
On Oct. 3, Renell Medrano toasted the opening of “Lambón,” the New York photographer’s first
Luke Agada Maps His Psyche’s Blurred Terrain
Anxiety, stability, chaos, and survival coalesce in the Chicago painter’s earthy and sinewy...
Wangari Mathenge Drifts Into Hypnagogic Repose
Observing footage of her own sleeping body in semi-lucid reverie and painting her fluctuating...
Alexandra Karakashian Relinquishes Control to Darkness
Likened to the scale and intensity of Korean monochrome painting, the South African artist wields...
Sebastian Errazuriz Chases Warhol to Casa Cruz
This week in Surface x Dorsia's Starving Artist series, in which we send creatives to dinner to...
In Chicago, Theaster Gates Salutes a Crucial Publisher of Black Life
In a sweeping new installation, the Chicago multi-hyphenate artist and founder of the Rebuild...
John Pule Wades Into His Windswept Canvases
Completed from above in a process he likens to swimming, the New Zealand painter conjures an...
YoYo Lander Mines Infinite Meaning From a Sweater’s Folds
The California collage artist trods into the knotty depths of human experience through the subtlest
Armory Week Transcends Market Doomers
Market uncertainty and political unease hardly dampened enthusiasm during the Armory Show’s 30th...
Lee Cavaliere Shares What to See at Volta New York
The fair’s artistic director offers his highlights exclusively with Surface, from a “brave”...
This Ski Slope Is Becoming the West’s Snowy Storm King
The billionaire co-founder of Netflix is slowly transforming 12,000 acres across the Utah ski...
Ding Yi Draws Lines in the Great Expanse
The Chinese painter further widens his already macroscopic view to the universe at large, finding...
This Industrial Lift Imagines a Future for Fraught Monuments
The Black Reconstruction Collective is reimagining possibilities around historic monuments by...
Pioneer Works Prepares for a Milestone
The Brooklyn creative nonprofit plans to reopen early September after months of renovations that...
Calida Rawles Pictures the Healing Potential of Water
With dazzling hyperrealism, the California painter tenderly envisions her subjects immersed in...
Nina Chanel Abney Puts Her Own Spin on a Warhol Classic
A monumental standout from her solo show at Jack Shainman’s converted upstate school, the...
A Disused School Becomes an Upstate Art Destination
Six Tribeca galleries—Andrew Kreps, Bortolami, James Cohan, Kurimanzutto, Anton Kern, and...
Pauline Rintsch Drifts Into the Knotty Depths of Feminine Interiority
In an anguished diptych that mimics an open book, the German painter summons a smudgy, Balthus-like
In Her First Museum Show, Nadya Tolokonnikova Turns Up the Volume
Given the lengths the Pussy Riot founder has gone over the past decade to use her art to speak out...
Szabolcs Bozó’s Frolicking Scenes of Hungarian Folk Festivities
Inspired by his puppet-maker grandmothers who never had a chance to show their work, the...
Phil Davis Questions the Origin Stories You Think You Know
The artist and landscape designer’s solo show at Fernberger turns ephemeral references on their...
Marco Brambilla Debuts a Times Square Utopia
On June 18, film artist Marco Brambilla took over more than 95 of Times Square’s LED billboards...
A Breezy Art Basel Brushes Off the Gloomy Market
“Doom porn” was nowhere to be found at Art Basel, where strong sales were buoyed by manifold...
Sara Fitzmaurice Shares Her Art Basel Highlights
The seasoned arts strategist reveals what she’s most excited to see at this year’s fair.
Art Basel Director Maike Cruse on What to Expect in Switzerland
The flagship Swiss art fair will bring 285 blue-chip galleries to Messe Basel, but the newly minted
The Broad Toasts a First for Mickalene Thomas
On May 23, the Broad Museum helped Mickalene Thomas ring in a career first with the opening...
Public Art Fund Brings the Art to Its Spring Party
On May 15, a crowd of 350 turned out to raise more than $1 million for Public Art Fund’s annual...
Anastasia Komar Prods at Science’s “God Complex” Question
Cutting-edge biotech, the Garden of Eden, and profound meditations on the future of civilization...
New York’s Culturati Partied for Amref with Kehinde Wiley
On May 4, Amref Health Africa’s annual ArtBall drew luminaries of the culture and entertainment...
Jérôme Lagarrigue Walks the Line Between the Tangible and Intangible
In his first solo exhibition with Fridman Gallery—and on the heels of his feature in the Brooklyn
Beneath ‘Colors of Gray,’ a Toxic Undercurrent
Even on first glance, Thu-Van Tran’s ‘Colors of Grey’ is rife with a sense of loss. Its...
The Museum-Quality Art in the New York City Subway
More than 100 artworks large and small throughout the country’s busiest transit system star...
MOCA’s Gala Offers a Glimpse Inside a “World Without End”
On April 13, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles celebrated its 2024 gala at The Geffen...
SculptureCenter Honors Thaddeus Mosley At Its Annual Gala
On April 11, the Long Island City-based destination for sculpture drew New Yorkers from the other...
Mary Miss Fights Back Against Her Work’s Demolition
After the Des Moines Art Center revealed plans to demolish a key Land Art installation by Mary...
Rose B. Simpson’s Sentinels Are Standing Guard
The Santa Clara Pueblo sculptor brings her sentinel figurines to two parks in Manhattan.
Ibrahim Mahama Gives the Barbican Centre a Facelift
The museum’s concrete facade has been covered in a billowing bright pink fabric woven with...
“Mode Et Sport” Treads New Ground in Fashion and Art History
As the Paris 2024 Olympics near, a pivotal show at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs about...
For Daniel Arsham, Photography Is More Instinctual Than Art
The artist is most well-known for eroded casts of objects and his serial collaborations with luxury
Christeene Summons the Spirit of Sinéad O’Connor
For two days at New York’s City Winery, the filth hero will perform the late singer’s debut...
Belkis Ayón’s Prolific Legacy Is Not for Sale
In Ayón’s first posthumous gallery exhibition at Miami’s David Castillo Gallery, the dealer...
Finding “The Flesh of the Earth” at the Edge of Manhattan
In a new group exhibition at Hauser & Wirth, breakout curator Enuma Okoro makes sense of...
Revisiting David Seidner’s Life in Haunting Photos
The International Photography Center's new survey of the work of boundary-breaking writer and...
Stan Squirewell’s “Remixed” 19th– and 20th–Century Portraits
As a self-described child of the hip hop era, the collage artist re-fashions historical photography
Can Olympic Poster Art Dispel Paris’s Reputation for Cultural Snobbery?
Six French artists and two Americans created a collection of posters to celebrate next year’s...
For Gio Swaby, Love is Liberation
The textile artist celebrates the multifaceted power of her chosen medium, finding softness and...
ClownVamp Imagines a Cannon of Overtly Queer Impressionist Painting
The digital artist, whose recent exhibition, “Chester Charles: the Lost Grand Master,” was...
The Power of Storytelling in Multigenerational Art Collecting
Experts from PURE Insurance, Christie’s, and UBS Private Wealth Management on possible...
The Cultivist Toasts Leslie Hewitt at Dia Bridgehampton
On July 23, the Cultivist celebrated the recent opening of Leslie Hewitt’s new exhibition at Dia...
Bettina Huang’s Guide to Buying Art
The brainchild behind Platform, the David Zwirner–backed digital marketplace for contemporary...
Surface, 4AM Gallery, and Gregory Siff Bring “CRZY CHMSTRY” to Miami
On view at Surface Area, Los Angeles–based artist Gregory Siff's latest collection of pop art...
Aspen Winter Hotspot Snow Lodge Ups its Art Game
With Incubus front man Brandon Boyd curating the art program, Surf Lodge's snowy satellite adds...
Home Alone 2: Lost in Miami
A preview of Home Alone 2: Lost in Miami, a two-week-long exhibit on showcase at Surface Area...
A London Artist Who Uses Tarot Cards to Draw Essence
Cartomancer Lucia Dami depicts inner divine femininity in her ethereal illustrations.
Curator Alison Gingeras on Revisiting One of the 20th Century’s Key Art Shows
Inspired by a MoMA classic, “New Images of Man” at Blum & Poe in Los Angeles shows dozens of...
Noah Davis, Influential Artist Who Died as His Star Was Rising, Comes Into Full View in New York
A David Zwirner gallery show charts his life as a preternaturally talented painter and a founder of
Filmmaker Shirin Neshat Probes the Iran-U.S. Divide in Surreal New Satire
“I think that it's even more important that artists are vocal," the artist says in an interview...
Art Dealer Jessica Silverman’s Tip Sheet for FOG Design+Art Week, from Key Shows to Classic Restaurants
In need of a cocktail or a bookstore in San Francisco during FOG week? The revered gallery owner...
At the End of the World, Infrastructure Will Save Us, This Artist Believes
Tiril Hasselknippe’s architectural sculptures see an opportunity for community in the midst of...
Benjamin Shine Sculpts Feminine Faces Out of Tulle
Cosseting ballerinas and society swans, tulle has long been admired for its ineffable delicacy....
David Lynch’s Universe Knows No Bounds
With a new gallery exhibition at Sperone Westwater in November, director and artist David Lynch...
State of Clay
These six fine artists add new energy to California’s celebrated ceramics tradition.
A Career Retrospective of Nam June Paik, The Father of Video Art, Arrives at London’s Tate Modern Right on Time
As we find ourselves locked to the screen and drowning in its contents, there's perhaps no better...
Fashion Label or Arts Patron? With COS, It Can Be Hard to Tell
In its first dozen years, the brand has become just as well known for supporting art and design as...
Pace Chelsea Reopens With an Exhibition That Casts a Rare Light
Fred Wilson's "Chandeliers" graces the gallery's return with not only beauty, but a challenge to...
These are the Best New Stores and Retail Spaces of 2019
The best new shops of the year include a sophisticated CBD boutique, an epic antiques purveyor in...
Takashi Murakami x Porter TZ BS-06 Sneaker Release Date
The collaboration between the artist and Porter, first announced in 2018, is finally headed to...
Artist Nick Cave Spreads a Little Joy in Boston
A collaboration between the contemporary artist and Now + There brings ornaments, a parade, and...
The Biggest Design Breakups of the Decade
From Sagmeister and Walsh to Apple and Ive to Marc and Louis, these are the splits that have marked
Magdalene Odundo Teams Up With David Adjaye to Stunning Effect
The ceramicist and the architect have turned the Norman Foster-designed Sainsbury Centre for Visual
With [AR]T, Apple Plants Itself Firmly in Augmented Reality
The tech giant teamed up with the New Museum to help curate its new AR project series.
Kanye West Is Building ‘Star Wars’-Style Houses for the Homeless: Report
In an interview with Forbes, the inescapable multihypenate revealed his prototypes for low-income...
Seven in Custody for Vandalizing “The Bean” in Chicago
The reflective monumental work by Anish Kapoor was tagged with silver spray paint in the early...
This House is a $5.25 Million Ai Weiwei Artwork
The Chinese artist collaborated with firm HHF on this 3-bedroom, 3-bath vacation home—the only Ai
London Calling: Five Must See Art Exhibitions This Summer
From Van Gogh to Cindy Sherman, the work of many pioneering artists will be on display in top...
Your Field Guide to Celebrating 100 Years of the Bauhaus
It was many things: a movement, a school, a style, a mixed-up social set. As an actual institution,
Mining the Surface Archives: Gone, But Not Forgotten
A deep-dive into Surface’s history reveals 26 years of art, design, and fashion at the bleeding...
Banksy Bashes Brexit With New Installation at The Royal Academy of Arts
The street artist has used an EU customs gate as a canvas for his most recent work.
Lehmann Maupin Takes Shelter at the Peninsula New York
The art gallery partners with the famed hotel on an art exhibition of contemporary works.
Six New Coffee Table-Worthy Books We’re Obsessed With Right Now
With a new season upon us, it's time to update your rotation.
This Weekend, Let Artist Anne Imhof Push All Your Buttons
The opening performances attached to her "Sex" exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago are sure...
Talking to Jill Magid, Director of the Most Shocking Architecture Documentary, Ever
In "The Proposal," the artist goes to audacious ends in pursuit of access to Luis Barragán's...
Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial Changed How We Process War
How a piece of public art helped us confront and embrace the human cost of national action.
Delvaux Takes a Surrealist Spin with Its New Collection
The Belgian brand partners with the Magritte Foundation on series of whimsical accessories.
How MoMA Design Store Is Inspiring Tomorrow’s Littlest Artists
Through the Making with MoMA collection and pop-up, the museum’s shop is giving art-loving kids...
Jorge Pardo Continues to Redefine What It Means to Live With Art
The artist's exploration into the intersections among design, painting, sculpture, and everyday...
Charity Auction to Celebrate Mexican Textile Traditions
The nonprofit sale, Anonimo, in which all of the works on offer are anonymous, will present an...
Feminism, Fine Art, and Beyoncé: The Guerrilla Girls Sound Off
In a cultural moment defined by unconscionable treatment of women, we host a round-table discussion
Announcing the Guerrilla Girls on the Cover of Surface Issue No. 150
This year, our annual Art Issue features the Guerrilla Girls, an anonymous collective of masked...
Callidus Guild’s Yolande Batteau Reveals Her Site-Specific Installation for The Salon
On view at Park Avenue Armory Nov. 8–12.
Studio Visit: Fernando Mastrangelo
Fernando Mastrangelo’s latest project? Using a suitcase as a blank canvas.
The Best of Expo Chicago 2018
The seventh edition of Expo Chicago opens today with 135 galleries from 27 countries. Highlights...
Visit This Modular System of Revolving Mirrored Columns
On view at Brooklyn creative space A/D/O by MINI, “Spirit of the City” is a poetic...
Design Dialogues No. 43 With Marchesi Antinori
Surface magazine’s digital director William Hanley spoke with Alessia Antinori, Stefano Arienti,...
Solange Knowles Is Not a Pop Star
As Solange Knowles charts the course of her career, the Grammy winning singer-songwriter trades pop
Don’t Judge This Book by Its Cover
British artist Richard Woods puts his signature spin on a delightfully deceptive hardcover.
How to Digitize Your Drawings in Real Time, Using Actual Paper and Pens
The Slate 2+ operates just like a traditional sketchpad, and incorporates digital tools.
At His Latest Exhibition, Misha Kahn Talks Trash
The Brooklyn artist used found and noble materials to create the objects in “Midden Heap,” his...
This Prolific Craft Collective Puts the Werk in Gesamtkunstwerk
Neue Galerie’s latest exhibition explores the staggering skill and output of the Wiener...
Designer of the Day: Kenneth Cobonpue
The humanitarian designer on classic sports cars, his forthcoming boutique hotel, and raising...
Designer of the Day: Alireza Razavi
The architect discusses creating design value, the key moment in a project, and why he collects art
A Reclusive Artist Shows in Paris
Daniel Brush, who prefers spinning gold to leaving his home, appears at L’Ecole Des Arts...
Designer of the Day: Heidi Lee
The Brooklyn milliner on her offbeat Endless Echo Hat, futuristic fashion, and her show at next...
Designer of the Day: Ian McDonald
The studio ceramist on shooting hoops, a forthcoming show in Japan, and his aversion to clutter.
Inside Istanbul’s First-Ever Art Week
Our report from on the ground during the city’s 15th Biennial, the 12th Contemporary Istanbul,...
Flynn Talbot Morphs a V&A Gallery into a Vibrant Hall of Light
On view throughout the London Design Festival, the Australian designer’s immersive installation...
Designer of the Day: Pierre Renart
On the eve of his U.S. debut, the French designer talks about the appeal of custom furniture,...
An Abstract Art Book (or a Print Installation?)
In "40 x 40," Swiss artist Claudia Comte translates her sculptures into a two-dimensional...
Katja Novitskova’s New York Landing
Public Art Fund’s latest commission materializes sci-fi and the internet.
Musician Esperanza Spalding Curates Cooper Hewitt Exhibition
The four-time Grammy Award–winner fêted her curatorial debut with a new exhibition and live...
Art and Commerce Come Together at the Seattle Art Fair
Seattle Art Fair director Max Fishko talks supporting up-and-comers, cultivating an art market, and
Making Misfits
A British artist expands her drawing practice, joins a band, and sounds off about Brexit.
Robert Therrien’s Lens
The artist’s show at Gagosian gallery casts everyday objects in a new light.
The 2017 Venice Biennale in 20 Instagram Posts
The 57th edition of the Venice Art Biennale, titled “Viva Arte Viva” and organized by...
Salon 94 and Maccarone Present “Midtown” at Lever House
An exhibition blurring the lines of art and design provokes questions related to how we determine...
Best of TEFAF New York Spring 2017
Our editors’ 10 favorite things at the groundbreaking fair’s debut spring edition in New York.
Oui Design’s Cultural Exchange
A collaborative program called Oui Design sparks innovative work by American and French designers...
Angie Kim’s Cultural Capital
An investment program aims to shake up traditional funding models in the arts.
Justin Adian Gets the Joke
The native Texan’s artwork comes in many shapes and sizes, but, in any case, it’s never short...
Jonathan Anderson’s Sculptural Silhouettes
The designer behind JW Anderson curates an exhibition with playfully defiant takes on the human...
The Design World’s Most Influential Person (You’ve Probably Never Heard Of)
Rossana Orlandi’s Milan space is a bastion of groundbreaking contemporary design.
Eric Shiner is Going Rogue
From his new post at Sotheby’s to a stint at The Armory Show, the versatile curator has proved...
Sterling Ruby: Stretching the Canvas
Sterling Ruby combines art and fashion with his close friend Raf Simons.
Ann Hamilton’s Enlightened Touch
The artist’s widely varied installations have a common aim: to draw out the human element.
Awol Erizku’s Evolving Skill Set
Not content with the limits of a single medium, the Ethiopian-born artist is expanding his horizons.
Found in Translation
A new art fair in Brussels brings American art to European collectors—and has some fun along the...
21c Hotels Brings Contemporary Art to the Heartland
Ten years after its conception, the irreverent hotel group has become an important ambassador for...
San Francisco
Design heft and art world gravitas are giving the City by the Bay a new patina.
Rosita Missoni
The woman behind one of Italy's most iconic fashion brands started with nothing but passion and...
Cui Jie in Perspective
The young Chinese artist prefers the comfort of her Beijing studio, while her work is making its...
Spencer Finch’s Miniature Woods
The artist brings a scaled-down Redwood Forest to New York City.
Surface and Azzedine Alaïa Celebrate the Fall Fashion Issue
The magazine and design legend threw an intimate dinner party during Fall Fashion Week.
Claire Danes Finds Space to Think
The actress and current host of Art21 considers the relationship between location and creativity.
Social: Cleo Wade
Cleo Wade (@cleowade) can be classified as many things: a poet, an artist, a speaker, an activist....
When Japanese Fashion Took Paris
Nearly three decades after the fashion capital welcomed an influx of Japanese designers, a new show
Simon Denny Decodes Bitcoin
Following a trail of research-intensive projects, the multimedia artist decided to tackle the...
The Art of the Metropolis
A group show of contemporary artists at Dio Horia in Mykonos, Greece, draws a connection between...
The Art of Azzedine Alaïa
The lauded designer is famously secretive about his life in fashion. Ask about his gallery,...
Jack Shainman
The seasoned Chelsea art dealer talks super PACs, Hank Willis Thomas, and his love affair with his...
Seattle’s New Art Fair Isn’t Holding Back
Heading into its second year, Seattle Art Fair promises creative diversity and dynamism thanks to...
Power 100
Our third annual list of influential figures in art, architecture, fashion, real estate, design,...
Making the Art Museum of the Future
Leaders at three standout New York institutions are embracing digital media and new technologies to
Moholy-Nagy: Future Present Opens at the Guggenheim
The New York City museum hosts the first U.S. retrospective of the Hungarian artist and designer in
Event Recap: Surface + Phillips, The Exchange Edition II
Talking identity politics, dangerous art, and the social obligations of museums with Hank Willis...
Lisson Gallery Opens in New York City
The gallery's fourth location kicks things off with a show from 100-year-old Cuban-American artist...
Tippet Rise: Givers Run Through It
Tippet Rise is bringing large-scale art and live music to a massive expanse in Big Sky Country.
Daniel Boulud on His Love of Art
The chef's friendship with Brazilian artist Vik Muniz inspires him in and out of the kitchen.
Simon Birch Goes All In With &lquou;The 14th Factory &lquou;
The artist's ambitious anti-capitalist exhibition sets up shop in capitalism's epicenter.
Cao Fei at MoMA PS1
The Chinese multimedia artist gets her first American museum solo show and a chance to win over new
The New Age of The Celebrity Art Collector
In time for Art Basel Miami Beach, writer M.H. Miller reflects on pop stars like Katy Perry and...
Robert Stadler at The Noguchi Museum
Unveiling “Solid Doubts,” a new exhibition that juxtaposes the late modernist icon’s works...
