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These envelope-pushing works seemed designed to create scandal—and that was sometimes the point.

Through the immediacy of acrylic, Padeu renders everyday scenes on a monumental scale.

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The Getty maintains earthquake and fire insurance, but there are concerns “such insurance could become unavailable at rates considered reasonable by the Getty Trust.”

Pérez said that Iva “resounds” when displayed next to Rothko. “And it’ll be there forever,” he added. 

Takala represented Finland in the 2022 Venice Biennale.

Here’s what we’re reading this morning.

With “Princessletthewind”, the Kunstverein für Mecklenburg und Vorpommern in Schwerin presents the first institutional solo exhibition of the American sculptor Nancy Lupo in Germany. Lupo’s artistic practice is deeply connected to material culture, including language, and draws attention to our presence amidst everyday materials and spaces. The artist examines how collective fantasies, emotions, energies, and

Two films were shot in the same location: a simulation center. A simulation center is a controlled environment in which hospital professionals engage in a form of roleplay-based procedural enactment with one another and with medical mannequins. The practice of simulation is pedagogical in focus and centers on improving patient care. Both films presented in

Born from the split trunk of a tree, Adonis is a deity of vegetation and rebirth in Greek mythology. The exhibition’s title comes from artist Siyi Li’s visit to the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands, where he encountered Hendrick Goltzius’s Dying Adonis (1609). Hanging high above eye level, the painting captures Adonis lying on the grass,

This exhibition of artist Park McArthur (born 1984, North Carolina, US) brings together, for the first time, artworks made between the 2010s and 2020s. Co-organized by mumok in Vienna and Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, the exhibition is a collaboration between both institutions and will be presented simultaneously at both locations. Questions of simultaneous experience and access