Is there inherent value in the act of paying attention? What does it take to observe something closely? How does an object, person, or place change when attention is given to it? These questions are ...

Surrounded by jars of brushes, tubes of paint, and makeshift painting palettes, artist Amy Sherald holds her face inches from the canvas, reveling in the slow and meditative practice of painting. In ...

What’s your artistic practice? I cringe at the inevitable question that floats around whenever art teachers get together. Is it because I’m surprised? (Wait…I’m supposed to have two jobs?!) Is it from ...

Referencing photographs found in his father’s archive or purchased from dealers in Cairo, Elmur’s surreal paintings combine the documentary and the subjective, capturing the essence of Khartoum.

At once deeply sincere and totally kidding, artist Hadi Falapishi isn’t afraid to play the clown in his paintings, performances, and sculptures if it gives him permission to share universal truths.

Steel and glass populate artist Hannah Levy’s 2023 exhibition Crutch at Casey Kaplan Gallery in New York City, taking familiar materials, forms, and structures and making them strange, even ...

When most of my students come to me, their understanding of art has been formed to fit a homogenized construct of how art manifests in the world. Often, they have yet to learn that art could look like ...

Donning futuristic regalia adorned with clanging bells and protective padding, artist Cannupa Hanska Luger prepares to shoot a video for his multimedia project Future Ancestral Technology ...

Hovering above a table full of pastels and charcoal sticks, artist Christine Sun Kim organizes her studio space and dusts off her hands, ready to work. “I’ve just been noticing that my life is one big ...

Clad in all-black, their faces obscured by oversized gorilla masks, “Frida Kahlo” and “Käthe Kollwitz” take to the streets as Guerrilla Girls to engage the public in their decades-long battle against ...

In their Brooklyn studio, artist Tauba Auerbach uses craft traditions as research methods to deepen their understanding of mathematical and scientific theories. “It seems appropriate to me to work in ...

In Anicka Yi’s Brooklyn studio, the rhythmic bubbling of a deep fryer is interrupted by the crackling sound of batter-dipped flowers crispening in the hot oil. Drawn to their visual qualities and the ...