Art

Mobula rays are often referred to as “devil rays,” but unlike their relatives, stingrays, they lack a stinger, making them a bit less nefarious than their name implies. When rays gather together into a group, it’s known as a squadron, and for photographers Brittany Ilardi and Eduardo Acevedo, the phenomenon inspired award-winning photos in the 2024 Ocean Art Underwater Photo …

Debt is a broad concept that can be examined from various perspectives, including its emotional, social, historical, and economic dimensions. Symbolically, it represents any form of imbalance. It can also be understood as the distortion of a promise. Contemporary society is shaped by promises—of security, community and care—often dictated by economic contracts, historical injustices and societal expectations. Debt functions both …

The opening salvo of Sin Fatigue, Nadine Sarriedine gallery’s inaugural show, is a fortune cookie message rendered in textile by Erin M. Riley: “You never hesitate to tackle the most difficult problems,” along with a selection of lucky numbers. The message serves as an apt mission statement for a gallery trying to carve out its digital and physical footprint in …

All images courtesy of Reen Barrera, shared with permission January 23, 2025 Art Kate Mothes Share Pin Email Bookmark Sporting colorful garments and richly patterned faces, Reen Barrera’s doll sculptures (previously) evoke an expressive, make-believe world. Often dressed in striped tops and hand-stitched hoods with animalistic ears, his imaginative Ohlala characters represent the universality of human emotions while emphasizing every …

Hamad Butt: Apprehensions at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, is the first retrospective for the artist Hamad Butt (1962–1994). The exhibition is organized in cooperation with Jamal Butt, the artist’s younger brother, and is curated by Dominic Johnson, professor of performance and visual culture at Queen Mary University of London, with co-curators Gilane Tawadros, director, Whitechapel Gallery, London, and Sean …

Jo Baer in 2020 (© Yaël Temminck) The painter Jo Baer, whose artistic path journeyed from hard-edged minimalism to self-described “radical figuration,” died yesterday, January 21, in Amsterdam at the age of 95. The news of her death was announced by Pace Gallery, which has represented the artist since 2019. Baer, who initially rose to prominence during the burgeoning male-dominated …

“Listening to the material is a central principle in my work,” Matias Karsikas says. Combining elements of glass, wood, and ceramics, the Helinski-based artist draw upon nature’s persistence despite human intervention. Karsikas’ botanical sculptures rest between artificial and organic. While bold hues of hand-blown glass neatly bloom into symmetrical petals and small bits of fired clay rhythmically protrude to resemble …

An exhibition event conceived in response to the evocative landscape of the Bernese Alps that surround the town of Gstaad in Switzerland. For the first time, the Fondazione is showcasing a selection of works from its own collection, which is focused exclusively on the numerous expressions of the moving image in the field of contemporary art, including more than 130 …

Visitors to the Brooklyn Museum this Saturday, January 18, may have met some of the artists included in one of the institution’s current exhibitions, but not under normal circumstances. At the entrance, several of them were handing out flyers with the message “Stop the Genocide” spelled in the museum’s signature font with interlocking Os, framed by the pattern of a …

Whether enclosed in clear acrylic or seemingly sliced from a single tree, Joyce Lin’s sculptures examine themes of interconnectedness and the Anthropocene, which describes our planet’s most recent epoch and the way humans significantly impact its ecosystems and climate. “I am both disturbed and captivated by the paradoxes of industrialized society,” Lin says in a statement, “where modes of production …