2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (348+ words) As a young child visiting her grandparents in the Chilean countryside, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra went missing. “Nobody could find me. They searched for hours and hours, until finally they found me with a pig who had just given…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (540+ words) Lucien Smith, a onetime market darling who more recently focused on supporting emerging artists, has died at 37, the news was confirmed to ARTnews by dealer Bill Powers, who had showed Smith early on. No information has been released about the…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1715+ words) In her red canvases, on view this fall at Buchholz Galerie in New York, big ideas grace the canvas with a light tough. When you walk through a show,” Martin Kippenberger observed to Jutta Koether when she interviewed him in…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (769+ words) The Surrealist Menagerie: Strange Beasts & Fantastic Visions, by the Zoologist and Surrealist Desmond Morris, considers Frida Kahlo and more. Starfish, scorpions, swallows, and sheep—once you look, animals are everywhere in Surrealist paintings. These and many other creatures are the…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (379+ words) What follows is a conversation with Barney that transpired during the 30-minute drive from Aspen to the town of Snowmass, and then the return ride back. How did the idea for your performance in Aspen last year originate? Had you…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (251+ words) A portrait of an elderly man, newly attributed to the Baroque master Gian Loranzeo Bernini, will be on view at Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum. When the exhibition “Bernini—Painter and Sculptor” opens at Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum on Dec 2, a…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (170+ words) “Rivers have long served as lifelines for ecological and cultural balance,” writes the artist in a statement on the Walker’s website, “but colonization and industrialization disrupted these reciprocal relationships, imposing systems of control and exploitation with lasting effects. This tension…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (207+ words) By Shanti Escalante-De Mattei Editor’s note: This story is the latest edition of Link Rot, a new column by Shanti Escalante-De Mattei that explores the intersections of art, technology, and the internet. It may be the most clichéd, surface-level inquiry…...