Artist Sin Wai Kin’s practice as a storyteller draws attention to the gaps between the stories we are told and the lives we live, asking who is given the power to tell us these stories and what these stories enforce. The London-based artist’s latest film, Dreaming the End, compounds this thinking. As so often is
A May Day rally held earlier this year in Havana. Photo by YAMIL LAGE/AFP via Getty Images Prominent Cuban and Cuban American artists including Tania Bruguera and Coco Fusco have signed an open letter urging the international art community to boycott cultural events sponsored by the Cuban government in light of its “repression of its
The early foundations of Exeter Cathedral—including the original high altar, a crypt, and tombs—have been uncovered by archaeologists in England, the BBC reported on Sunday. During excavations, the team identified the cathedral’s original high altar dating back to the early 12th century. An area believed to be a crypt and tombs of 12th and 13th
The London evening sales came to a lackluster end Friday with Phillips newly introduced “20th Century to Now” sale, which brought in just over £9 million ($11.4 million). This sum seems paltry in comparison to similar auctions held by Christie’s and Sotheby’s this week. Then again, the latter’s marquee London auctions, which raked in £199 million
The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation has donated 186 artworks to four American museums and one European institution to celebrate the late artist’s centennial anniversary of his birth this October. The receiving institutions are the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine; the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina; the Los
A Buddha statue was found by archaeologists in the ancient Egyptian port city Berenike, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced in a statement last week. Not only does the statue—made from Mediterranean marble—shed greater light on trade between ancient Rome and India, it also is the first Buddha found west of Afghanistan, according to
(Spoiler alert: this article contains information and plot points from the fifth episode of The Exhibit, a docuseries created by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and MTV.) For the fifth episode of The Exhibit, the seven artists were back at it again, this time reimagining one of their past works to represent their hopes for
For nearly two decades, South African ceramicist and designer Zizipho Poswa has been carving ancient stories in ceramics. She’s frequently relied on clay, but she experiments with other unusual material too, like bronze. The objects she crafts are often large; they flow from a rich tapestry of her heritage. Born in Mthatha, a small town
Skip to main content Hito Steyerl: How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File, 2013 (film still), single-channel high-definition digital video and sound in architectural environment; 15 minutes, 52 seconds. Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, and Esther Schipper, Berlin. © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022. Film still © Hito Steyerl For the annual Art
Skip to main content Matthew Wong: River at Night, 2018, oil on canvas. ©Matthew Wong Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York For the annual Art in America Guide, published in print in January, the editors of A.i.A. highlight significant and intriguing museum exhibitions throughout the year. Below is a list of noteworthy shows opening in
If context is everything in art, how does placing an art show in the middle of the sea change our experience of the work? That’s the obvious question posed by New York’s Half Gallery, which hosted the second iteration of one-day Miami Art week pop up Stiltsville Thursday. If nothing else, it made for quite
On Tuesday night, collectors and artists gathered in Tribeca for a gala staged by New York’s Rema Hort Mann Foundation — a philanthropic organization dedicated to funding medical support for cancer patients that has forged deep roots in the city’s cultural sector as a longtime backer of emerging artists. Guests convened for cocktails at Tribeca