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Julie Mehretu Imagines a BMW Blasting Through Her Paintings

The Ethiopian-born painter translates her frenetic abstractions onto a BMW M Hybrid V8 to mark the...

ARTIST STATEMENT
With ‘Showtime,’ Lizzi Bougatsos Sets an “Absurdist Stage”

The visual artist and experimental musician opens up about an assemblage made from stained vintage...

CULTURE CLUB
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...

Culture Club
Faena Art Gala Wows with Garden of Earthly Delights Theme

On May 10, Faena Art hosted its annual fundraising gala at Faena Forum in Miami Beach. The theme...

ARTIST STATEMENT
Anastasia Komar Prods at Science’s “God Complex” Question

Cutting-edge biotech, the Garden of Eden, and profound meditations on the future of civilization...

CULTURE CLUB
At Its Annual Spring Benefit, Print Center New York Honors Pat Steir

On May 14, artists, collectors, and supporters of one of Manhattan’s defining institutions...

CULTURE CLUB
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...

ARTIST STATEMENT
Parme Marin Catalogs the Dualities of Artistry and Motherhood

Marin merges a decade-long fashion career with expertise in ceramics and paintings in an incisive...

ART
Beyond Borders, Paris Rings In 150 Years of Impressionism

Musée D’Orsay’s landmark exhibition, “Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism,” opened to...

ARTIST STATEMENT
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

ARTIST STATEMENT
 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...

BOOK
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...

ARTIST STATEMENT
Cindy Phenix Casts Shadows of the Unseen Into the Light

The Canadian painter unleashes a “strange vortex” of apocalyptic tableaux in vivid hues,...

CULTURE
Kathleen Hanna Wants You to Think About What Music Looks Like

On the eve of the Bikini Kill singer’s searing new memoir, “Rebel Girl: My Life As a...

EXHIBITION
SCAD Student Photographers Turn Their Lenses on “Power in Perspective”

Realized in partnership with Leica, the group exhibition reflects on expectations of feminine...