Love affairs are an art form all their own when two creative spirits become romantically entangled. Though the myth of the artist as a solitary genius endures, many of history’s greatest painters and sculptors found artistic inspiration in a muse, rival, collaborator—or someone who happened to be all three. Though these artists’ epic love sagas
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, has invited multidisciplinary artist Alex Da Corte to create a site-specific sculptural installation for its Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. The work,
Humans Like Being a Little Scared but They Don?t Want to be Disturbed, 2020 . Oh de LavalUnit London 95% of history is explained as men trying to impress woman, 2020. Oh de LavalUnit London Sex is one of the oldest subjects in the history of art, but never has it looked the way it
The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art has announced that it is restructuring and that Klaus Biesenbach, who has served as the institution’s director since 2018, will assume the role of artistic
Since 2020, art destinations have had to adapt to the conditions brought on by the ongoing pandemic. But amidst the countless zoom-studio visits and Instagram-live conversations, Puerto Rico’s Embajada Gallery, has stood out by the way it has continued to expand its reach. Founded in 2015 by the husband and wife duo of Christopher and
As part of its annual conference, which runs through February 13, the College Art Association, a U.S.-based professional organization that promotes art history scholarship, announced the winners of its awards for 2021. The association’s biggest prize, the Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement, has been awarded to Samella Lewis, an artist and scholar. Lewis was
The year 2020 was a test for us all on individual, societal, and, for most, familial levels. For the first, time people all over the world had to centralize every aspect of their lives at home, which functioned as the singular place to eat, live, sleep, work, and, for the art world, make work that
Lending credence to an ancient legend, newly uncovered evidence suggests that Stonehenge’s inner circle of stones was originally erected in Wales, before being transported 175 miles and rebuilt on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. Archaeologists working on the Stones of Stonehenge project have found buried holes that once were part of a ring of stones that closely
BEST Artists and Lovers – Artnet News’s Katie White delves into the torrid, turbulent, and touching love stories that shaped art history on this week’s Art Angle podcast. The Photo in the Attic – A man opened up a locked door in his attic to discover a trove of historical photographs, including a famous portrait of
Westside Gunn, the renowned rapper, label head, and famed native of Buffalo, New York, will open “the illest Boutique ART gallery my city has ever seen,” according to a post he made to Instagram earlier this week. Buffalo Kids, as the business is known, will be “conveniently next to Starbucks and Footlocker” in the Walden
