Art
A painter seeks to expand the world’s visual library.
Portraits that capture the everyday.
Our quarterly roundup of fellowships, residencies, and prizes accepting applications.
Painting and sculpting faces.
Reminding us the artwork does not exist in a void.
Honoring the art-making process.
On mystifying moments big and small.
If artists are not given the time and space to tell their own story, others will do it for them.
Exploring Grenada’s past and present.
The Head of Content at David Zwirner discusses art books, design, and a new Romanticism.
“When you’re an artist, you bring what you know, what you think, what you’ve experienced, your aesthetic, your ambition, and it doesn’t have to be conscious. In fact it shouldn’t be self-conscious. If the work isn’t speaking to you, if you’re not getting it from what you’re seeing, you’ve failed, and no amount of explanation is going to change that.” —Janet Olivia Henry
“Making our art is the purest thing we do. There are no hidden lies. My work is my truth as I have lived it.”—Sana Musasama
Alejandro Almanza Pereda lives and works between the United States and Mexico. Known for precariously balanced large-scale sculptures that put common objects into unlikely configurations, he exhibits internationally and has had solo shows at the San Francisco Art Institute; Rubin Center, El Paso; El Eco Experimental Museum, Mexico City; College of Wooster Art Museum, Ohio; and Art in General, New York.
An international chess master and a filmmaker play a match while discussing the art of the game and its history in India.
The blues, sports, lessons from Dave Van Ronk, and the legacy of “triumphal American painting” are among the stimuli for Weatherford’s large-scale abstract works.
