Art in America

Art in America, the world’s premier art magazine, delivers in-depth coverage of the global contemporary art scene. Published 11 times per year, every issue contains profiles on respected and rising talents, critical essays and reviews of current exhibitions around the world, written by today’s leading artists, curators and historians.

Art in America

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DATE BOOK • A highly discerning list of things to experience over the next three months.

Hard Truths • An artist mulls his dealer’s no-confidence vote, and a laid-off worker wonders about the worthiness of $30 museum tickets.

Quiz Should I Participate in a Big Group Show? • An email arrives from an unknown curator’s Gmail account inviting you to be part of a massive group show. You see the 50-plus artist names on the list and get that familiar sinking feeling. Your CV is already chock-full of mosh pit shows organized by fly-by-night curators, and solo opportunities continue to elude you. Feeling exasperated, you wonder if you’ll ever stop being an eternal “emerging artist.” Test whether you can withstand another art world Fyre Festival by taking this quiz:

Meg Onli • The Whitney Museum’s recently appointed curator-at-large—and cocurator (with Chrissie Iles) of the 2024 Whitney Biennial—discusses artworks invested in narrative and sound, along with related interests.

Pipilotti Rist Goes Glittery • The beloved feminist video artist talks about her big pivot to furniture-sculpture hybrids.

In the Shadow of a Handgun • Feminist art icon Judy Chicago has examined the role of women throughout history in artworks dating back to the 1960s. The 84-year-old artist is the subject of a comprehensive retrospective at the New Museum in New York that features painting, sculpture, installation, drawing, textiles, photography, stained glass, needlework, and printmaking—including her oil and acrylic painting In the Shadow of a Handgun (1983).

The Met vs. MoMA • Two museum gift shops go head-to-head.

Art and Fashion • Whether analyzing dress in portraiture or understanding how artists’ personal styles can be extensions of creative vision, art and fashion are inextricably linked. Here are five key texts to unlock important sartorial and artistic bonds.

Brice Marden • The painter renewed himself several times over and embodied painterliness until the end.

Edgar Calel • A star of many recent biennials, the Guatemalan artist leads a new wave of institutional critique.

Soup & Sunflowers • Climate activists are targeting museums, affirming both the urgency of the crisis and art’s unique political power.

Rubem Valentim’s Syncretic Symbolism • The Afro-Brazilian artist merged modernist abstraction and spiritual symbology.

Magnificent Monstrosity • A new book on feminist art shows the movement’s lasting impact on formal innovation.

Bees & Potatoes • The climate crisis demands that we collaborate better with other species. These artists are showing us how.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Machine • Stephen Thaler’s quest to copyright his AI creation raises uncomfortable questions about the nature of creativity.

furniture • These artists make sculptures you can sit on and tables that tell stories.

Haute Culture • These days, it seems like there isn’t a luxury fashion brand that doesn’t collaborate with artists.

SARTORIAL STUDIES • The New York–based artist collective CFGNY tailors its work to fit into new contexts.

ADVENTURES IN THE VAPOR WORLD • Harmony Korine makes his next move—into new realms awaiting his twisted visions.

Thames & Hudson

REVIEWS • Exhibitions in Berlin, Cleveland, Seoul, New York, and Chicago

Berlin Diary •...