Art in America

Art in America, the world’s premier art magazine, delivers in-depth coverage of the global contemporary art scene. Published 11 times per year, every issue contains profiles on respected and rising talents, critical essays and reviews of current exhibitions around the world, written by today’s leading artists, curators and historians.

Art in America

For the Ages

CONTRIBUTORS

DATE BOOK • A highly discerning list of things to experience over the next three months.

Hard Truths • A nonprofit director deplores janitor duty, and an artist ponders dumbing down.

QUIZ • Should I Become a Performance Artist?

ANOHNI • The multivalent musician recently released her first album credited to ANOHNI and the Johnsons, My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross. Here, she discusses the influences on her personal and creative expression, along with related interests.

Pippa Garner’s Body Shop • The trailblazing trans performance artist hacks everything from old cars to herself.

City at Rest • Jessie Homer French is a self-taught narrative painter who considers themes of death and nature in her canvases. The 83-year-old artist is the oldest woman to be included in this year’s “Made in L.A.” biennial, which highlights the practices of artists based in and around Los Angeles. Her oil painting City at Rest (2022) is one of her eight works that will be on display as part of the exhibition at the Hammer Museum.

Marfa, Texas vs. Naoshima, Japan • Two hot art-pilgrimage sites go head to head.

Picasso • Just as there is no shortage of Picasso exhibitions this year to mark the 50th anniversary of his death, there is no dearth of literature about the 20th century’s most celebrated artist. But which books about him are really worth your time? Here are five essential texts.

Françoise Gilot • The artist and author of the best-selling Life with Picasso framed a lasting legacy on her own terms.

Chiffon Thomas • With resourceful reclamation, an LA artist crafts new forms from old structures.

America Offline • As the world of tech shows its bad side, some of the best art/tech artists are logging off.

Slip into the Future • A compelling history of the fertile 1950s–’60s firmament surveys Lower Manhattan’s Coenties Slip.

Don’t Call It a Comeback • Back in the spotlight, Suzanne Jackson pushes the boundaries of what paint can do.

Undancerly Body • For Yvonne Rainer, who rewrote the history of dance to make space for her misfit physique, everything is a performance if someone is watching.

Two to Tango • Trinh T. Minh-ha’s twofold commitment to film reveals worlds open for discovery.

Rethinking Reparations • Enigmatic conceptualist Cameron Rowland takes financial systems as a medium, exposing institutions that continue to profit from slavery.

G. PETER JEMISON

THE RUSCHA EFFECT

WILLIAM WEGMAN • (BORN 1943)

DENA YAGO • (BORN 1988)

GARY SIMMONS • (BORN 1964)

FRANCES STARK • (BORN 1967)

ALEX ISRAEL • (BORN 1982)

DENISE SCOTT BROWN • (BORN 1931)

MATH BASS • (BORN 1981)

The Underground Museum • Kenyan architects imagine an indigenous museum model unique to Africa.

REVIEWS • Exhibitions in Miami, New York, Riehen, San Francisco, and St. Louis

New York Diary • A smattering of shows around New York raise the question: What do we want from art history?

Lonnie Holley: If You Really Knew

African Modernism in America, 1947-67

Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence

Doris Salcedo

Monet/Mitchell: Painting the French Landscape

Garden of Earthly Delights • Suzanne Jackson, whose work a history drawing-cracked wall...