Sinuous sculptures crafted from steel, post-WWII abstract paintings and celebrity portraits by Annie Leibovitz are just a few of the highlights of this month's exhibitions

Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith: How would you describe the relationship between your art-making, writing and activism? Has it changed over the years? Cecilia Vicuña: It's a relationship that keeps moving while remaining the same. I couldn't think of one without the other and so the limit between them is porous and shifting and leaky. Something in...

J. Marion Sims, sometimes referred to as the 'father of modern gynecology,' was a 19th-century doctor who conducted brutal, nonconsensual experimental surgeries on enslaved Black women without using anesthesia. A monument for the surgeon stood in Central Park for 80 years, across the New York Academy of Medicine on 103rd Street, until it was...

When you are faced with the full-frontal blitz of a Lari Pittman painting, one of many possible impulses is to take inventory. Among the recognizable images, you might find an owl, an egg, and several directional arrows; the number 69, an overturned vase and a row of Victorian-style silhouettes; a noose, a ship, a spiny cactus, textile patterns,...

For the first time in 117 years, sculptures occupy the erstwhile empty niches of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exterior. Wangechi Mutu has introduced her quartet of magisterial bronze statues to the museum's austere Beaux-Arts entrance.

A resplendent display of 272 fuchsia-colored paper lotus lanterns adorns the light-filled oculus on The Rubin Museum of Art's top floor. The sweeping circular installation, Lotus: Zone of Zero (2019) by Kimsooja, is among the more striking of the works by 10 international artists selected by guest curator Sara Raza for the exhibition Clapping...

On the occasion of his major retrospective exhibition Declaration of Independence at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, critic and independent curator Terry R. Myers spoke with artist Lari Pittman in his studio in Los Angeles. Terry R. Myers (Rail): Let's start with your title: Declaration of Independence . Maybe it's the declaration of the...

Alex Prager was born in the bedroom of her grandmother's house, in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, in 1979. She had an upbringing with few rules and little structure. At fourteen, she spent a summer on her own in Switzerland, where she worked at a knife store. She dropped out of school at sixteen, returning to Switzerland for longer...

After decades of being overlooked, it's fair to say that 73-year-old American artist McArthur Binion is having a moment. With a spate of recent exhibitions, notably his inclusion in the 2017 Venice Biennale Viva Arte Viva and a 2018 solo exhibition at the Cranbrook Art Museum in Detroit, this past month the artist has also celebrated the opening...

Somewhere between dizzying grids, newspaper clippings and a xeroxed copy of a page from a Chinese colouring book is Mandy El-Sayegh's subjectivity. Or was: as the artist says, her subjectivity is a process. 'I view myself as someone who is always changing. It [one's subjectivity] depends on different moments in time. If you accept that as you...

1) Hoarding or collecting? More hoarding—I see collecting as a controlled, conscious, more discerning thing. That's not to say that what I accumulate doesn't have its specificities, more that they are not completely known to me. 2) What do you hoard? For instance, a certain texture of a sweet wrapper while I'm eating it will...

In the first week of June, Britain and France played host to a vast spectacle on the 75th anniversary of D-Day. The commemoration events, tracing the timetable of the Normandy landings as they unfolded three quarters of a century earlier, marshalled a range of techniques, ancient and modern, to mark the occasion: church services, parades,...

According to a photo posted on Facebook by Christina Li, guest curator of artist Shirley Tse's exhibition at the pavilion, a notice in English and Italian at the entrance reads: 'Due to unforeseen circumstances, the exhibition Shirley Tse: Stakeholders, Hong Kong in Venice will be closed on June 12, 2019. Please excuse us for the inconvenience.'...

Since it was begun in 2000, Unlimited , which is offered only at the fair in Basel, has proved to be a particularly popular draw. Most people attending the fair–there were 95,000 last year–are expected to visit the section, not only for the sheer wow factor of the works, but also for the relevance of its offerings. 'I often tell people that...

Art Basel 2019 opens to the public on Thursday, June 13, with two preview days, on June 11 and 12. Some 290 galleries from 34 countries will show work at the Swiss fair, which runs through June 16.

For this exhibition, he has been thinking about water and how it has functioned as a vehicle for magical thinking throughout history, from the belief in sea monsters and other early legends to the pseudoscience of water memory used in homeopathic medicine today. Themes of deluge and the environment reveal themselves, and the work explores how...

This year, all Koreans at the Venice Biennale are women. The Korean Pavilion is curated by Kim Hyun-jin and three participating artists Jung Eun-young, also known as siren eun young jung, Jane Jin Kaisen and Nam Hwa-yeon. At the main exhibition, the works of three Korean women artists Lee Bul, Suki Seokyeong Kang and Anicka Yi are on view.

Cite Your Sources , directs Mandy El-Sayegh’s first institutional solo show in London. Okay. Eva Hesse, Robert Rauschenberg, Alberto Burri, the canonical history might ring, as you take in the artist’s Net-Grid (2018–2019), paintings, with their rough and layered surfaces. Joseph Beuys or Philip Guston turned 3-D, you might think, peering into...

Cite Your Sources , the title of Mandy el-Sayegh’s first solo show in the United Kingdom, presented by London’s Chisenhale Gallery, is a quote from the artist’s former tutor. It nods to the idea that a viewer’s understanding of an artwork is contingent on a multitude of influences, just as it is for the creator, and this meaning can resist being...

LONDON — A cluster of snails are glued, like barnacles on a ship, to a disused metal post, which stands in a field of dry grass, a shabby apartment block looming in the background. In the photograph, Snails (2009) by French artist Kader Attia, the molluscs are not a culinary delicacy served on a platter with garlic butter, but a symbol of...

Some gigs are bigger than others, and for an up-and-coming artist they don’t come bigger than east London’s Chisenhale. Since the 90s, this gallery has given names such as Rachel Whiteread and Wolfgang Tillmans their first major shows. Mandy El-Sayegh’s Cite Your Sources , her debut British solo show, is just about to open there and she’s...

McArthur Binion had been creating art almost completely under the radar for four decades, handling his own occasional sales and raising two children in Chicago on a teaching salary. Now, Mr. Binion has been fully embraced by the mainstream art world — at the age of 72. His dealer is a prominent Chelsea gallery. Museums and international...

Her current show features work by three artists: Yuji Agematsu, Charles Harlan, and Nari Ward. The theme of 'everyday objects'—ranging from carefully salvaged dross to mundane materials—loosely binds the selection.

The ten paintings in McArthur Binion's show (all 2017 or 2018) were from a series called 'Hand:Work.' In one sense, the title is literal: a photographic image of the artist's hand recurs throughout the paintings, serving as a building block and a serial motif.