Art in America

For our Fall 2024 “New Talent” issue, the editors of Art in America selected a global group of 20 exciting artists to watch. https://lnkd.in/e2WudzDQ

Faith Ringgold died this past April at age 93. Her diverse works brought joy and anger to celebrations of Black American life. https://lnkd.in/eU_neqbR

This year’s Venice Biennale is inclusive in ways both expected and unexpected. Despite this, a question looms: “who benefits most from all this inclusion, and at what cost?”

In May, A.i.A. visited Shechet on site at Storm King as she prepared for her show to open. She talked about approaching her work with a sense of humor and sassiness, and accepting the fact that mystery is always part of her process.

From a studio in Brooklyn, Pakistani American artist Shahzia Sikander discussed work of the kind that figures in her retrospective on view in Venice.

All the artists featured in our Summer 2024 “Icons” issue have had to wait for the world to be truly ready for their work—in essence, to catch up with them. https://lnkd.in/e9zN9nAd

For seven decades, Esther Mahlangu has painted vivid geometric forms and detailed patterns that draw from a long history of Ndebele mural painting, a technique passed between generations of women.

A downtrodden former gallerist asks if it’s too late to get any farewell press coverage after shutting down the gallery he called home for years. Art-world advice columnists Chen & Lampert answer with some ‘Hard Truths.’

Indigenous artist Kay WalkingStick spoke with Alex Greenberger about her approach to painting—and probing—landscapes, all the while looking part the land’s surface to unearth its wounds.

Too often, we send our refuse away, never to be seen again. By showing it back to us in galleries, these eight artists aren't letting us off the hook.