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NYFA Immigrant Artists on Display at New York Live Arts
2+ hour, 48+ min ago (265+ words) In this context, I talk to my 2026 mentee, Salehi. Originally from Canada, of Polish-Iranian heritage, she came to New York to study at Parsons. A recent graduate and participant in numerous residencies, she is in the process of finding her…...
In "Making Pictures" Cecily Brown Dials Down the Erotic Charge
6+ hour, 37+ min ago (232+ words) In Edward Helmore's deservingly laudatory Guardian profile of British artist Cecily Brown, from 2023, she comments: "I could do a slash of pink and someone would assume it was something sexual even when it wasn't." Walking through Cecily Brown: Picture Making…...
Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, Jerry Gogosian'I'm not famous, but I'm oddly famous'Dies at Age 40
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (178+ words) Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, or Jerry Gogosian, was known as the art world's sharpest critic, a trailblazing media artist whose main medium, her satirical memes, incited both fear and reverence in her readers. We have all learnt a thing or two…...
Kennedy Center Protest Turns Into a Joyful Occasion as Trump-led Changes are Deemed Unlawful
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (325+ words) The center has faced artist cancellations and declining ticket sales after Trump-appointed trustees named him chairman and moved to rename the institution after him. In February, Trump announced a two-year closure to accommodate extensive renovations, leading to many workers losing…...
Can Art be Fashion? Schiaparelli at the V&A
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (335+ words) Today, we have largely accepted that fashion belongs in art museums. Fashion is art. While walking to the Victoria and Albert Museum to see their new blockbuster show Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art, I wondered about the reverse proposition: if fashion…...
Who Holds the Gaze? Lesley Bodzy's 'Hand of Venus"
4+ week, 2+ day ago (244+ words) This moment of reflection is key. It situates the viewer within the work's parameters, asking us to reconsider our own role in the act of looking. Despite centuries of artistic production, Bodzy gently suggests, perhaps not much has changed. Patriarchy…...
Uncanny Creatures: A Conversation with Julia Bondesson Ahead of 'Stay' at Belenius
1+ mon, 1+ hour ago (448+ words) Her current atelier is situated in a former carpenter's workshop. "I feel like I'm in a blocky phase right now, where everything is big, voluminous, and lovely," Bondesson says with a laugh when I speak to her over a video…...
Who's Showing What'and What They Love'at Market Art Fair
1+ mon, 16+ hour ago (931+ words) With 150 exhibitors, its 20th edition is the largest to date, and when I stepped inside, I passed by collectors chatting in the aisles, exhibiting artists checking out their peers" work, and, surprisingly, most gallerists in a zen state of mind. The…...
Stories Produce Truth in Nour Helou and Afrang Malekian Nordl'f Malekian's New Book
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (673+ words) I met with the duo at Bonniers Konsthall, where Afrang Malekian Nordl'f's latest work, which has heloped shape the book, is on view following his receipt of the institution's Maria Bonnier Dahlin scholarship. JJ: Your storytelling moves fluidly between personal…...
The Conquest of Twilight: On Syd Krochmalny's Paintings
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (167+ words) In the ambiguity of these forms, which seem to emerge and dissolve at the same time, an unstable, almost oneiric drift appears, one that could faintly evoke Salvador Dal" or Ad Minoliti, though never fully surrendering to the image. In…...