Crawling Performance Art Pioneer Pope.L Dies at 68
One of Observer’s Arts Power 50 changemakers in 2019, the performance and installation artist William Pope.L was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1955, and much of his initial artistic …
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The Provocative and Risqué Rise of Painter Fabian Cháirez
Fabian Cháirez with ‘Tenochtitlán’. Nick Hilden In December of 2019, Mexico City’s iconic Bellas Artes Palace was besieged by a throng of protesters demanding that one of the paintings on …
Video Games as Art | WIRED
As I wandered through the exhibition Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art, my mind felt like it had been hit by several lightning strikes. This exhibition, currently at …
Who Is Artist Tony Camaro?
Tony Camaro. Andres Castillo Tony Camaro paints, but he isn’t bound to one medium or artistic practice. He has released clothing collections and designed utilitarian objects like lunch boxes …
ArtReview’s Mark Rappolt On How the Power 100 Comes Together
A few weeks ago, ArtReview dropped its Power 100, the annual ranking closely watched by the denizens of the art world, if only so they can Apple+F search their names. …
An Interview with Artist Erwin Wurm
SCAD Museum of Art presents “Hot” in its Gallery 108 and André Leon Talley Gallery. Aman Shakya, Photography Courtesy of SCAD If you think you’re not familiar with Austrian conceptual …
Iyanya announces return of one of Mayorkun’s stolen Jewellery
The Nigerian singer, Iyanya Mbuk, simply known as Iyanya, has announced the recovery of one of the stolen jewellery pieces belonging to singer Adewale Mayowa, aka Mayorkun. Iyanya, through his …
Chance and Chaos: A Q&A with Artists Ciarán Murphy and Niamh O’Malley
The works of Irish artists Ciarán Murphy and Niamh O’Malley couldn’t be more dissimilar at first glance. Murphy specializes in dreamy and melancholic paintings, while O’Malley uses materials like steel, …
Founding Mother of Generative Art Vera Molnár Dies at 99
Michael Bouhanna, Vice President and Head of Digital Art & Contemporary Art Specialist at Sotheby’s, shared today (Dec. 7) that pioneering generative artist Vera Molnár has passed away at age …
‘Too ambitious’ National Gallery Singapore exhibition on colonial and postcolonial experiences in Southeast Asia and Latin America still has its merits
“When you say tropical, you start imagining banana trees, ‘natives’ in the sun living the good life and the exotic, but no – it is much more than that,” says …