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Reviews, features, and essays on contemporary art
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...
The Urban Portrait Stencil Murals of Daniel Eime
Daniel Eime is a Portuguese visual artist known for transforming building façades into cinematic close-ups of faces...
Benjamin Spiers Paints Disconcerting Surrealism For the Modern Age
"I have a hunch that any successful painting creates work for the viewer,” says the painter Ben Spiers. “I think...
Inside the Ruins of American Masculinity: Jared Buckhiester at David Kordansky Gallery
In Continent of Misbelief at David Kordansky Gallery in New York, Jared Buckhiester stages American masculinity as a...
2025 Critics’ Picks – Part Two
Once again, Akimblog has reserved the last two weeks of our publishing year to reflect on the past twelve months of...