[ad_1] Bees get a bad rap a lot of the time, despite the immense benefits they provide—and those go way beyond honey. Responsible for pollinating one-third of the world’s food supply, the buzzing insects ensure we’re able to enjoy coffee, tomatoes, strawberries, vanilla, and myriad other kinds of produce. The climate crisis, habitat destruction, pesticides, […]

[ad_1] Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign presents Millie Wilson: The Museum of Lesbian Dreams, the first retrospective of the work of contemporary artist Millie Wilson. Alongside her peers such as Lutz Bacher, Nayland Blake, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and Lorna Simpson, Wilson joined 1980s postmodernism with the personally and politically charged conceptualism of the […]

[ad_1] Brooklyn’s vibrant art scene will be buzzing as The Other Art Fair returns from October 17 to 20 at ZeroSpace in New York. Presented by Saatchi Art, this milestone event will showcase 120 independent artists from around the world, offering visitors a unique opportunity to purchase original artworks directly from the creators. In celebration of […]

[ad_1] Two months after the stock market crash of 1929, an American Gold Rush heiress named Eila Haggin McKee purchased a Paul Gauguin still life called “Flowers and Fruit” (c. 1889) from the Reinhardt Galleries in New York City for $5,000. A decade later, McKee gave the painting to the Haggin Museum, a fledgling new […]

[ad_1] Nested in rusted caravans or hovering above vast landscapes, small glowing orbs reminiscent of the sun, stars, and otherworldly technologies populate Andrew McIntosh’s latest body of work. On view with James Freeman Gallery for the British Art Fair, The Calling conjures McIntosh’s interest in mystery and magic. The London-based Scottish artist often evokes the lush, […]

[ad_1] Three climate activists “souped” two paintings from Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers (1887–1889) series at London’s National Gallery again today, September 27, in response to the jail sentencing of two protesters who led a similar action in October 2022. A spokesperson for the National Gallery told Hyperallergic that the paintings were examined by a conservator […]

[ad_1] Undulating, organic sculptures emerge from thousands of drawing utensils in Jessica Drenk’s ongoing Implements series. Fascinated by the aesthetics and behavior of multiples of mass-produced objects, the artist (previously) chose pencils because of their stackable shape and “the thought that, if I sanded them, I could make a sculpture that drew on itself in […]

[ad_1] On view at SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico through March 17, 2025, Tristan Duke: Glacial Optics centers on a series of large-scale photographs of Arctic landscapes, made with a lens the artist fashioned from the ice of the region’s glaciers.  The project began in the spring of 2022, when Duke embarked on an […]

[ad_1] From individually stained snippets of watercolor paper, YoYo Lander collages elaborate portraits. Each work begins with a photo session during which the artist focuses on capturing the sitter’s unique gestures, poses, and expressions. She then combines the reference images into a singular composition that conveys a particular emotion or experience. “Kara” In a recent […]

[ad_1] When I arrived at Chelsea’s Metropolitan Pavilion in Manhattan on Thursday, the opening day of the Affordable Art Fair (AAF), a long line spilled out of the venue’s entrance and wrapped around the corner of 18th Street and 6th Avenue. With 77 participating galleries representing works by more than 400 living artists, the fair, […]