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Reviews, features, and essays on contemporary art
Photos of BSA 2025 # 10
This one caught our eye for the merging of classic graffiti nerve, blunt style execution, sentimental velvety roses,...
The Nature of Life: Shyama Golden on Art, identity, & The Not So Elusive Catsquatch
“I don't aim for my art to be political, but because I have my own perspective and worldview, that inevitably comes...
Cracks In the Levee: The Paintings of Max Seckel
Max Seckel's paintings are all about the details. His landscapes come alive with the messy signs of humanity: a...
Tropical Flavored Nightmare: Sean Norvet’s Paintings Are Reflective Mountains of Disgusting Excess
Sean Norvet has long been described as a Renaissance-inspired satirist, a mish-masher of photorealism and cartoons...
Photos of BSA 2025 # 11
Praise the labor of painting and painters: the technical mastery, the arduous strategic planning, the bodily toll....
Using Ancient Kilns En Iwamura Builds His Ceramics One Coil At a Time
“I never imagined being a ceramic artist when I was a kid,” Iwamura admits. “I had no interest.” But today, he is a...
Photos of BSA 2025 # 12
The splasher approach to graffiti has morphed into a kind of visceral graphic abstraction on the street, closer to...
Photos of BSA 2025 # 13
First thing on a Friday morning in the city, you might be hustling to the subway, walking a kid to school, or...
Photos of BSA 2025 # 14
This Lincoln’s Sparrow by Peter Daverington is wise and approachable, its portrait framed by radiating action beams...
MAUREEN PALEY: WOLFGANG TILLMANS, THROUGH 20TH DECEMBER ’25.
Build From Here marks the twentieth anniversary of Tillmans’s work cycle, Truth Study Centre, first displayed...
Her Majesty Queen Sofía to Travel to Miami to Present Prestigious Sophia Awards for Excellence in Gala at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)
Her Majesty Queen Sofía will be traveling from Spain to Miami to present the Sophia Awards for Excellence during a...
Photos of BSA 2025 # 15
This image calls to mind many trips—across the country and abroad—that allowed us to report the stories that...