Art

Cecilia Vicuña’s practice of recollecting — in both senses of gathering and remembering — doubles as an act of care for that which time, loss, and neglect have obscured, though not entirely erased. At Lehmann Maupin, this process turns inward, extending her expansive practice of retrieval to fragments of her own artistic past. A series of new oil paintings recreate …

Through a unique collaboration between The Jaunt and Hashimoto Contemporary, three women artists spent a week together in the small town of Shelton, south of Olympia National Park. Hiking, delving into the area’s history, and learning about each other’s work, Bianca Nemelc, Genevieve Cohn, and Seonna Hong participated in the first Winter Camp. Given space and time away from their …

Leonardo da Vinci, “Lady with an Ermine” (1489–91), oil on wood panel, 21 x 15 inches (54 x 39 cm) (image courtesy National Museum of Krakow) If William Shakespeare believed that eyes are the windows to the soul, then how did Leonardo da Vinci regard the nose? While the Italian polymath has historically been associated with artistic mastery and scientific …

What if succulents sprouted in squiggles? Or cacti turned orange and floated to the sky like balloons? An imaginative animation by Hiroshi Takagishi pushes botanical specimens and their potential evolution to peculiar extremes. Inspired by contradictions and irregularities in nature, “Odd” is a digitally crafted film that envisions the ways various specimens could morph from one state to another. As …

The MFA in Visual Arts at Purchase College, State of New York (SUNY), is a small, selective interdisciplinary program that fosters the artistic, intellectual, and professional growth of students through independent studio work and rigorous academic studies. State-of-the-art facilities include photography, video, and digital labs; wood and metal shops; sound art studios; and printmaking and letterpress studios. Nearby, the vast …

A red squirrel diving headlong into a tree snags the top award in the 2024 Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards (previously), snapped by Italian photographer Milko Marchetti. “He has been sitting on this beauty of a shot for a couple of years now and decided that this year was the year to enter it,” the organizers say. “We are chuffed …

EAST LANSING, Michigan — The road from Detroit to Michigan State University’s Broad Art Museum is bleak in winter. Gray permeates everything — the sky, the barren trees, the sidewalks. It was almost a sensory shock to enter Samia Halaby: Eye Witness. Taking up the entire second floor of the spacious, Zaha Hadid-designed museum, the 88-year-old artist’s abstract paintings are …

With the region’s smallest geographic footprint, El Salvador boasts the second-highest number of volcanos in Central America. The country is located on the Ring of Fire, a tectonic band that encircles the Pacific Ocean and houses about two-thirds of all volcanos worldwide. Given its eruptive landscape, much of the soil is rich in ash. In a series of sculptures, Guadalupe …

“I Desire All the Things That Will Destroy Me in the End,” features artists Brina Reis, Donatas Norušis, Gustavo Silvamaral, Romulo Barros, Natalie Braido, Samuel Alves de Jesus, Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino, and Raquel Nava. Curated byMaria Luiza Serafim Curator’s assistant: Melissa CampoiProduction: João Mazocante  and Melissa CampoiVisual identity: Arthur Menezes  and Ana GamaDialogue: Wisrah C. V. da …

Conceptual artist and critic Lorraine O’Grady, known for pivotal works that subverted the binaries of Western thought, died at the age of 90 in New York City on Friday, December 13. O’Grady has left an indelible impact across nearly five decades of performance, film, photography, collage, and text-based analysis that both contribute to and critique the contemporary arts sphere from a …