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Painting The Diaspora

Papay Solomon’s portraits tell untold stories of immigrants and refugees

Grace En Plein Air

For me, plein air painting is the most challenging way to paint, and the rewards are even better!

Honest Portrayals

THE PAINTINGS OF MARIO ROBINSON FOCUS ON THE ESSENCE OF THE SITTER AS WELL AS THEIR UNIVERSAL TRUTHS

From Root To Crown

A Conversation with Bo Bartlett

Expressing Emotions

As an artist I am seeing my world with eyes wide open, noticing interesting and engaging scenes everywhere around me.

Developing Beauty

Brandy Kraft’s interest in nature inspired her to create her own hybrid species of flowers

Basics Of Brilliance

Harley Brown’s fascinating things no one else will tell you

The Benefits Of Working In Multiple Mediums

How working in various mediums enhances painting abilities as well as the appearance and emotional impact of a composition.

Harley Brown's Fascinating Things No One Else Will Tell You

Harley Brown's fascinating things no one else will tell you.

Architecture Lobby

All is not perfectly well in the world of architecture, and this advocacy group is looking to improve it.

Helen Marriage's Public Art Gets Millions To Lighten Up

Helen Marriage’s public art gets millions to lighten up.

Mary Heilmann’s Idiosyncratic, Rhymthic Abstractions Find Their Place In the Sun

Mary Heilmann’s idiosyncratic, rhymthic abstractions—and chairs—find their place in the sun.

The Queen, Drink and Drugs... What Made Me and Saved Me- Artist Chris Levine on kicking bad habits and shooting our art greats

For artist Chris Levine, Andy Warhol is always watching. A genuine self-portrait by the great Pop artist gazes out from the wall of Levine's studio in Hampshire, given to him by a collector after learning that Warhol was a huge inspiration. He said I could have one if I wanted. I thought he was joking, but a few weeks later he turned up with a big roll.

Inward Yearnings

Essay: Rianna Jade Parker retraces the history of the Jamaican intuitives, a group of self-taught artists who ushered in a national form of artmaking mythologizing African traditions through religious divination and esteem-raising cultural work

The Promise of the Past

Built Environment: On the occasion of the ‘Tropical Modernism’ exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Derin Fadina examines the architectural movement’s exclusionary narratives

Sleepers Awake

Built Environment: By slowing sound, John Cage created a rousing music of shifting relations to space

Echoes of the Brother Countries

In recent years, the former German Democratic Republic (DDR) has been the subject of a reappraisal that, while not seeking to redeem the stiflingly authoritarian state, has attempted to present a more nuanced overview of its social and cultural realities.

Nicole Wermers

Nicole Wermers’s Reclining Female #6 (2024) looks out over Glasgow.

Tell It Slant

Built Environment: Giovanna Silva on photographing history through unexpected architectural interventions

Greater Toronto Art 2024

Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada

Pierre Huyghe

A pale tetra fish swims around a vast obsidian tank, while another bobs on its side at the top of the water, perhaps ailing from debilitating swim bladder disease (Circadian Dilemma [El Día del Ojo], 2017).

4 Galleries to Watch in Tokyo

Dossier: A new generation of galleries, non-profits and artist-run spaces has emerged in Tokyo, embracing the city’s famous pop sensibility – and revitalizing one of Asia’s oldest and most storied contemporary art sceneswith commissioned

I'm trying to follow my instinct: to have confidence and not get into my head too much about what other people are expecting.'

Conversation: Ahead of a solo show at London’s Cubitt Gallery, Marlene Smith speaks to Lubaina Himid about her time in the BLK Art Group, friendship and collaboration

The Second Self

On the tenth anniversary of Chris Marker’s pioneering experiment in machine intelligence

Dean Sameshima

What does it mean to be alone? In Dean Sameshima’s recent body of work – 25 monochrome photographs of queer men in Berlin porn theatres with sumptuous black negative spaces and blinding white cinema screens – ‘alone’ is a complicated term.

After the Miracle State

Built Environment: Reimagining a postcolonial Ivorian cityscape with less concrete and more natural materials

Where Is Everyone?

Built Environment: Minoru Nomata’s paintings ask why we obsess over unpeopled architecture

Primary Information

Profile: How a storied artists' book publisher brought 1970s conceptual art into the hands of a new generation

Winner Takes It All

IN THE EARLY 1990S, Donald Rodney assembled a collection of more than 100 cheap sporting and academic trophies, such as those typically available in local shops, and displayed them on shelves that ran the length of the gallery wall, and in purpose-made glazed and mirrored cabinets.

Open Invitation

HOSTING PERFORMANCE in institutions, particularly those that have historically presented more traditional formats, is both tempting and tricky.