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Visual art, exhibitions, installations, and the artists shaping contemporary culture.
FKA twigs: The Body Is the Score
On September 13, 2024, Tahliah Debrett Barnett walked into Sotheby's New Bond Street in London and made the auction house host something it...
KAWS Has Been Asking the Same Question for Thirty Years
On April 1, 2019, a painting titled THE KAWS ALBUM sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong for $14.8 million, roughly fourteen times its high estimate....
What Weyes Blood Understands About Beauty in Collapse
Neil Krug photographed Natalie Mering for the "And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow" press cycle in light that looked borrowed from a Flemish...
Cassandra Jenkins Wrote Her Intended Final Record and Then Kept Going
"An Overview on Phenomenal Nature" was supposed to be the last record Cassandra Jenkins would make. She said as much. She had decided to...
Yeule's Practice Has Always Been Art First. Evangelic Girl Is a Gun Proves It.
Nat Ćmiel enrolled in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in London in 2018. The program is not a music conservatory. It is a visual art...
Divide and Dissolve's Doom Has Always Been About What Gets Named
April 18, 2025, Divide and Dissolve released Insatiable on Bella Union, their fifth studio album and the first on a label outside the...
Toyin Ojih Odutola Builds the House and Fills It with the Dead
"Ile Oriaku" opened at Jack Shainman Gallery at 46 Lafayette Street in New York on May 6, 2025, and ran through July 18. It was Toyin Ojih...
Zanele Muholi and the Politics of the Black Gaze: Somnyama Ngonyama Rewrites the Visual Archive
The history of photography has never been politically neutral, and Zanele Muholi has spent the better part of two decades making that point...
Actress Has Been Designing the Architecture of Electronic Music Since 2008
Darren Cunningham, who records and performs as Actress, has been making some of the most formally rigorous electronic music in existence...
Dev Hynes and the Memory Machine: Blood Orange's Essex Honey
Dev Hynes, who records and performs as Blood Orange, has spent the last decade and a half building one of the most distinctly personal...
Kara Walker and the Shadow History of America
Kara Walker's silhouettes have been called disturbing, necessary, brilliant, and offensive, often by the same critics in the same breath....
Amy Sherald and the Gray That Holds Everything
Amy Sherald paints Black Americans in shades of gray. Not the skin, not the person, not the identity: she renders the physical surface of...