The painter Derrick Adams, 55, came of age in New York in the late 1990s, at a time when artists of color were often relegated to showing their work in off-the-grid spaces like coffee shops, or “anywhere that would allow them,” as he recalled recently. He’s now represented by Gagosian, one of the world’s most…
By Bloomberg Published May 21, 2025 Art Basel is expanding again. Bloomberg Next year the Swiss-based art fair will open an edition in Doha, Qatar’s capital city. “We’re starting small,” says Art Basel CEO Noah Horowitz. “This is going to come to market in February next year in a very considered and measured way.” The inaugural…
By Reuters Published May 8, 2025 Britain spent months buttering up Donald Trump, keeping calm in the face of the U.S. president’s tariff-led assault on global trade, before deciding late on Wednesday to drop its demands for a comprehensive deal and take a quick but limited win instead. Britain had been in talks with Trump’s…
The artist Qualeasha Wood can make a computer glitch look mythic. She distorts her likeness freely in her large-scale recycled cotton jacquard tapestries, which are machine- and hand-embroidered and beaded with webcam and iPhone self-portraits, as well as snapshots of memes, early aughts-style desktop screens and other digital ephemera, each pixel represented by a stitch….
Last year, Everett published “James,” his reimagining of the American classic “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” told through the voice of Mark Twain’s enslaved Black character Jim. In the strictest sense, “James” employs parody and pastiche, drawing broadly from Twain’s plot and characters but endowing its first-person narrator with the wit and eloquence that his…
There is a flat, amorphous pendant stamped with a faun’s face by Pablo Picasso. A brooch that fuses the forms of a hair comb, watch and a spoon certainly is the work of Salvador Dalí. And Man Ray’s gleaming “Optic Topic” gold face mask would be borderline creepy if it weren’t so impressive. These rarities,…
For part of the year, the artist and activist Ai Weiwei works in a cavernous 30,000-square-foot studio on the underground levels of a former 19th-century brewery in Berlin. Its triple-height vaulted cellars, which Ai, a self-taught architect, renovated himself after leaving his native China in 2015, are now pristine and well-lit, but when he first…
