Jun
01
Alexandra Wiesenfeld paints massive landscapes suggestive of the California painting tradition of the past, but she reinvigorates these on a grand scale and reimagines them with bold colors, frantic lines, and bursts of energy.
May
26
Artist Chris Burden died last week. Here, we remember his iconic monuments and artistic legacy.
May
14
Learn about Okwui Enwezor, the man behind the 56th Venice Biennale international art fair.
May
07
While Father Junípero Serra may earn posthumous canonization this fall, his statue in D.C. may be getting the boot.
Apr
24
David E. Peterson takes industrial design as his inspiration and turns it into art for your wall. Moved by the bold colors, layout, and rhythms of storeroom floors and wall displays, Peterson set out to mimic and recreate those aesthetic triggers in his wall sculptures.
Apr
20
Skylar Fein combines text and paint to create powerful imagery on paper, aluminum, and wood. With a burst of dry verbal wit and starkly contrasted style, his works bite you subtlety and leave you thinking.
Apr
17
Die-in, Los Angeles, CA (above) features Ken Gonzales-Day’s photographs of somber bodies lying on a solid, dark background; the artist has blacked out the street to emphasize the bodies, the physicality, and the reminder that they stand-in for those who have been killed unjustly.
Apr
02
We deposit 8 million metric tons of plastic ocean pollution every year. See how artists are addressing this environmental crisis.
Mar
18
Sculptor Elyse Graham makes fabulously bright, geode-inspired sculptures using latex and urethane.
Mar
18
Artist Chuck Close’s personal story is inspirational and his work influential. He is well-known for saying that art saved his life twice — as a child with dyslexia who took comfort in making art and as an adult after a spinal aneurysm left him paralyzed.
