contemporary art

Buying art can be one of the most difficult parts of decorating a home. It’s an object of permanence that’s difficult to switch up should your tastes change, and often a pricey object at that: original works often require a financial…

As a means of interrogating themes of identity and belonging, many of the artists reflected stories of self. Deborah Jack, Joscelyn Gardner, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, and Alia Farid are all women whose works can be described as both…

Over the last four decades, the work of conceptual artist Jenny Holzer has become indelibly linked to New York’s cityscape through its détournement of street signs, electronic billboards, and outdoor façades. But Holzer, perhaps most famous…

Back in 2015, the writer Charlie Porter was visiting an Agnes Martin retrospective at the Tate Modern in London when he found himself pausing over a photograph of the artist herself. In the image, Martin stands halfway up a ladder, in front…

On a recent visit to the MFA Boston, work and pleasure collided for me in front of one of the museum’s new acquisitions, Tailleur pour dames, a surrealist masterpiece by Remedios Varos from 1957. It’s easy to get lost in this strange…

<!-- -->Nazhia Salim was born into a family of Iraqi artists in Istanbul, Turkey.Google celebrates Iraqi contemporary art genius Naziha Salim with a doodle today. On this day in 2020, the painter-professor, described as "one of the…

“We definitely influence each other,” says Neri, who has started painting again, inspired by the seeming ease of her studio neighbors’ processes. “I’m always laboring over clay,” she says, laughing. Two or three of the artists often have…