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Art Basel in Basel. Courtesy Art Basel
From Avedon to Bradford: Exploring the Best of Art Basel 2023

The world’s most prestigious art fair, the 2023 edition of Art Basel kicked off…

A woman sits at a bar, seemingly alone, laughing with a bandaged hand and a glass of wine
Anna Weyant Embraces Dark Humor Through Realist Painting
Art & Object looks back at a 2021 conversation with the in-demand artist to discuss her initial interest in art, opportunities that have come her way and how they have impacted her work, and her…
Alice Neel, (American, 1900–1984) Linda Nochlin and Daisy, 1973 Oil on canvas 55 7/8 × 44 in. (141.9 × 111.8 cm) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Seth K. Sweetser Fund © The Estate of Alice Neel
The Met Presents Alice Neel: People Come First
One of the greatest chroniclers of twentieth-century America, Alice Neel was born in a small town near Philadelphia in 1900, but made her mark as a “painter of people,” as she humbly called herself,…
Black and white structure towers diagonally across the canvas. Colorful people stroll by
Revisiting Figuration in Contemporary Art
At a time when figuration is the dominant way of working in the international art world, New York’s Richard Taittinger Gallery takes a look back at an important figurative art movement in Europe in…
Man Ray, Non-Abstraction, 1947. Oil on panel. 36 1/4 x 27 1/2 inches (92.1 x 68.9 cm).
Vito Schnabel: World-Class Art Dealer and Collector
Currently presenting the exhibition Man Ray & Picabia at his West Village space in New York, the young art dealer recently sat down with Art & Object to discuss the making of the intimate,…
Installation view, KAWS: WHAT PARTY, Brooklyn Museum, February 26, 2021 - September 5, 2021. Features sculpture in front of a series of several flat images of
From Graffiti to Augmented Reality: KAWS at the Brooklyn Museum
Featuring a dynamic combination of graffiti drawings, paintings, sculptures, collectible objects, furniture, and augmented reality projects, KAWS: WHAT PARTY presents a twenty-five-year survey of the…
abstract portrait in white, yellow, black and teal.
Izumi Kato’s Otherworldly Creatures & More Fantastical Shows
Born in a coastal area of Southwestern Japan in 1969, Izumi Kato creates surreal, haunting figures, which he renders in paint with his hands and sculpts out of wood, stone, and vinyl.
Ashley Bickerton, Round Cloud, 2020. textured, cracking canvas sprinkled with beach debris
Ashley Bickerton Creates Colorful Seascapes with Debris Washed Ashore
As the old saying goes, “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure,” and in Ashley Bickerton case it’s completely true.