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A New Book, ‘Art Monsters,’ Shows the Impact of Feminist Art on Formal...
IN 1964 CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN SHOT A FILM in which she and a man fornicate under the watchful gaze of a curious feline named Kitch. The celluloid is discolored—awash in hazy blues and purples—and...
View ArticleHenry Taylor, Art in America’s Winter 2023 Cover Artist, on Painting His 65th...
The past year has been more than a little momentous for Henry Taylor. In addition to his collaborations with Pharrell Williams (for the designer’s first collection as the men’s creative director of...
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Winter 2023: Collaborations
Consider it apt that this issue focusing on collaborations comes out just in time for Art Basel Miami Beach. As that annual fair has grown over the past two decades, it has attracted creatives from...
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How Art and Fashion Collaborations Have Evolved Over the Decades
TWO YEARS AGO, LVMH executive Delphine Arnault orchestrated a collaboration with Yayoi Kusama that, in Arnault’s words, scripted a “new blueprint for the [Louis Vuitton] brand’s cultural play.” There...
View ArticleThe Five Most Essential Books About Art and Fashion
Whether analyzing dress in portraiture or understanding how artists’ personal styles can be extensions of creative vision, art and fashion are inextricably linked. Here are five key texts to unlock...
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Why Climate Protesters Should Keep Targeting Museums
ON FEBRUARY 28, 1974, Tony Shafrazi walked into the Museum of Modern Art in New York and spray-painted kill lies all in red across the achromatic surface of Picasso’s Guernica (1937), in protest of...
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Harmony Korine Finds New Forms for His Twisted Visions
After shooting his latest movie, Aggro Dr1ft, in the seaside wilds of Miami, Harmony Korine turned to what he considers another sort of sanctuary—his art studio—to transform scenes from the film into...
View ArticleChef Jason Hammel Reveals His Top Five Recent Obsessions
Jason Hammel, a self-taught chef and owner of the Chicago-based Lula Café, recently released The Lula Cafe Cookbook. Along with recipes, the book, published by Phaidon, chronicles the restaurant’s...
View ArticleBrice Marden Was a Painter of Rare Power
It seemed as though Brice Marden had always been there and always would be. That was an illusion, of course, but a comforting one. His first show, at the Bykert Gallery in 1966 when he was just 28, is...
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Lucas Blalock Created a Collectible Optical Illusion for A.i.A.’s Winter Issue
Each issue of A.i.A. comes with a limited-edition artist’s print, and this Winter, we invited the experimental photographer Lucas Blalock to make a special collectible work. Blalock features in an...
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Chinese Ink Master Liu Kuo-sung Paints the Moon Without Using a Brush
Some artists, for good reason, hesitate to reveal their tricks, so as to avoid any chance of diminishing their work’s mystery. But learning how Liu Kuo-sung makes his moon paintings doesn’t take away...
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Artist Edgar Calel Leads a New Wave of Institutional Critique
Museums have long been compared to mausoleums, lifeless places in which objects are permanently laid to rest. In most cases, this is true: artworks tend to spend a lot of time stacked in storage once...
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Sophie Calle Moved into Picasso’s Museum and Put His Paintings in the...
Most Sophie Calle works seem to be about men. But look closely, and you’ll see that her men are more plot device than protagonist. Often, the men are wholly invisible, and the works are instead about...
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The Climate Crisis Demands That We Collaborate with Other Species. These...
IN THE EARLY 1980s, artist Garnett Puett “kind of ran away,” as he told me on Zoom, from his life in rural Georgia, where his family had kept bees for four generations. He set his eyes on the New York...
View ArticleEight Artists Who Blur the Line Between Furniture and Sculpture
The lines between sculpture and furniture are blurring, and the artists in the pages that follow are leading the way. Taking cues from Surrealist objects that put playful spins on familiar objects—...
View ArticleShilpa Gupta Gives Voice to Silence and Resilience
This essay originally appeared in Reframed, the Art in America newsletter about about art that surprises us, about the works that get us worked up. Sign up here to receive it every Thursday. “I was...
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Pussy Riot Retrospective Proves Why the Group’s Activism Should Be in an Art...
Pussy Riot is generally referred to as a punk rock band and performance art ensemble. But at least as it appears in Montreal, the group’s first museum survey does not disclose much in the way of...
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Juana Valdés’s Sculptures and Installations Address the Complex Struggle of...
Time and tide wait for none, they say. But art can direct those unrelenting forces to its own expressive purpose. That is the insistent implication of “Embodied Memories, Ancestral Histories,” Juana...
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