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Feminist Elina Chauvet's Red Thread Weaves Reflections on Domestic Labor and Violence

March 28, 2025

Chauvet’s exhibit challenges patriarchal narratives, using red thread on textiles to critique societal pressures on women in a pop up exhibition by MAD54 and Galería 1204.

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Art Militant: An Interview w. Annu Yadav on Modern Esotericism

March 26, 2025

Annu Yadav, The Encounter / Bridled, Courtesy of the artist

At first glance, one might perceive the work of painter and designer Annu Yadav as if you’re in a ‘fever dream’ but it's quite the contrary. Her vivid elaborate, large scale paintings that often include beings wedged between alt...

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In the Studio with Gisela McDaniel On Her Practice “Talking Story” and Research

March 25, 2025

art currently visits McDaniel’s studio in Brooklyn, and discuss the extensive research that goes behind her studies on healing and reclamation through audio, space, and consensual artifacts as seen in her portraiture paintings.

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Art Militant: An Interview w. Jeffrey Melo "A Painter's Life"

March 18, 2025

As part of a new column “Art Militant” led by cultural producer Murphy Phi, he writes on New York based artist Jeffrey Melo as he shows new works in group show “Carved In Cover, Bound By Love” at Tanya Weddimere Gallery.

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Salon Art + Design Takes Over Bergdorf Goodman’s Seventh Floor w. Art & Design

March 13, 2025

Bergdorf Goodman, the iconic New York department store collaborates with Salon Art + Design for a curated furniture and lifestyle exhibition on its seventh floor.

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Art Militant: An Interview w. art currently Founder & Visionary Alison Andrea Lopez

March 9, 2025

As part of a new column “Art Militant” led by cultural producer Murphy Phi, he interviews art currently founder and visionary Alison Andrea Lopez on her career trajectory and new handbag line DREEA.

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From Irish Pubs to Sold-Out Art Releases: Margo in Margate’s Return to New York’s Affordable Art Fair

March 4, 2025

Margo McDaid. Photo by Alun Callender

Irish artist Margo McDaid, known as Margo in Margate, is set to debut her striking and evocative female portraiture at the New York Affordable Art Fair, taking place from March 19-23 at the Metropolitan Pavilion.

Since committing to her artistry...

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Paulina Freifeld’s Exploration of Memory, Identity, and Survival in Peso Del Peligro

February 28, 2025

Marking her first solo exhibition and Concordia Studio’s first exhibition in Mexico City, Paulina Freifeld’s Peso Del Peligro is full of firsts. On view until February 28, 2025, at Mexico City’s Art Week, the exhibition weaves themes of extinction survival, and displacement into a deeply introspective narrative of cultural and environmental memory.

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Hilma’s Ghost Discusses Their Feminist Homage to the Guggenheim’s Legacy

February 25, 2025

The feminist art collective Hilma’s Ghost hosted a unique series of feminist activations paying tribute to the Guggenheim’s iconic architecture and deeply woven foundation.

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Chief Curator Kate Kraczon on Julien Creuzet’s Reimagined French Pavilion at The Bell

February 20, 2025

art recently speaks with Chief Curator Kate Kraczon about French-Caribbean artist Julien Creuzet's upcoming first solo institutional exhibition at The Bell at Brown University.

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Guerrilla Girls Take On Art World Bias in First NYC Show 'Discrimi-NATION' at Hannah Traore Gallery

February 17, 2025

The legendary feminist-activist collective, The Guerrilla Girls, are stirring things up once again through Discrimi-NATION: Guerrilla Girls on Bias, Money, and Art, at Hannah Traore Gallery.

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Nick Cave Corrects Historical Misinterpretations Through Amalgams and Graphts

February 9, 2025

Nick Cave opens the new Jack Shainman Gallery's new location in Tribeca with his solo exhibition, Amalgams and Graphts.

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Revisiting the Psychological Impact of TV on Arab Artists at Abrons Arts Center

January 30, 2025

Screen Memories, a group exhibition at Abrons Arts Center features video works by Yara Asmar (Lebanon), Mona Benyamin (Palestine), and Huda Takriti (Syria), opens on February 14, marking the United States debut for all three artists.

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New York’s Beloved Owl, Flaco is Honored in New Exhibition at the New York Historical

February 2, 2025

Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl who won the hearts of New Yorkers during his yearlong adventure through Manhattan, is now the focus of a new exhibition at The New York Historical.

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Reginald Sylvester II Looks Toward a Year of Exploration Leading Up to His Exhibition at CANADA, New York

January 14, 2025

Reginald Sylvester II, Courtesy the artist.

The new year marks a major moment for New York-based artist Reginald Sylvester II, who will showcase his latest Semi and Offering paintings alongside the abstract works of the late Denzil Hurley in Beyond the Frame: Abstraction Reconstructed, o...

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