Frieze Los Angeles has awarded its 2026 Impact Prize to artist Napoles Marty, whose work will now be featured in the upcoming fair, scheduled to run February 26–March 1. The annual award, now in its fifth year, is given to an emerging artist and a nonprofit and comes...
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The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) has given its 2026 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence to Los Angeles–based curator Hamza Walker. He will receive $25,000 and will be honored at CCS Bard’s spring gala in April. Walker has been the...
In these times of cruelty against immigrants in the United States, nativity scenes have become sites of political protest. In one installation in Massachusetts, Mary and an infant Jesus are absent, replaced by a sign that reads, "ICE was here." In another one in...
In Atlanta, the desire for critical art writing has spurred many heated debates on the question of responsibility. Whose responsibility is it to write critically about the arts in the Southeast? Which writers have the knowledge and care to write well-informed cultural...
Tishan Hsu saw the future coming as early as the 1980s, when he began producing abstract paintings with sculptural additions that looked variously like warping screens and torqued body parts. Beyond the body horror seen in David Cronenberg’s films, there wasn’t much...
Artist Nnena Kalu, whose hanging sculptures and life-sized drawings channel the gentle rhythmic energy of nests and cocoons, is the winner of the 2025 Turner Prize, Tate Britain announced today, December 9. She is the first artist with a learning disability to secure...
It should come as no surprise to anyone that London would host some standout exhibitions in 2025. But even with the city’s thriving art scene, this year seemed exceptional. It wasn’t just eye-catching shows. Museums made conscious attempts to move out of their comfort...
When Melissa Joseph welcomed me warmly into her Midtown studio this fall, she immediately invited me to try needle felting — the process she uses to create what she calls her “paintings in felt.” Feeling self-conscious, I procrastinated as long as possible, asking...