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

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

Pope.L • The trickster-artist offered crucial lessons as to what was and was not real.

Kay WalkingStick Moves Mountains • The Indigenous artist’s layered landscape paintings get under the genre’s surface.

Kathleen Ash-Milby • The curator of contemporary Native American art at the Portland Art Museum and cocurator of the American pavilion for the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale discusses the significance of broader histories and representation.

Hard Truths • A gallery owner pines for press, and an aspiring curator wonders what goes on in those “curatorial intensives.”

Whitney Biennial vs. Venice Biennale • Two banging biennials go head to head.

Indigenous Art • Indigenous arts of North America are expressions of deep cultural traditions as diverse as the lands with which they are inextricably linked. Here are five key texts that survey the subject.

Loves Me, Loves Me Not • Hayv Kahraman is an Iraqi–born refugee who escaped with her family and became a Swedish citizen. Informed by her experience in migrating and assimilating, Kahraman’s solo exhibition “Look Me in the Eyes” at ICA San Francisco explores connections between botanical classification and human subjugation. Her oil painting Loves Me, Loves Me Not (2023) features in the show, which runs through April 21.

Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio • In the Whitney Biennial and at MOCA LA, the sculptor captures the materiality of disappearance and resistance.

Stairway to Hell • Why is Thomas Heatherwick the architect most beloved by billionaires?

Alice Shaddle’s Mutability • The iconoclastic Chicago artist was hard to classify—and all the better for it.

Can You Ever Put the Image Back? • Legacy Russell’s Black Meme is a history of dispossession and cultural production that have molded our evolving media landscape.

Painting Pleasure • In her prismatic portraits, Joan Semmel builds feminist worlds.

READY-MADE RECY-CLED • As the planet fills with trash, artists reconsider the ethics of making work from scratch.

SHEIDA SOLEIMANI • Sheida Soleimani interrogates the narratives disseminated by the press and social media in a practice that fuses sculpture, performance, and photography. In her ongoing series “Levers of Power,” the Iranian American artist recontextualizes images of public figures to reveal how seemingly simple gestures—a pointed finger, a clenched fist—inform perceptions of people both familiar and foreign. The special pull-out print that accompanies this issue features Armita (2024), a new entry in the “Levers” series. Below, Soleimani tells A.i.A. the story behind the work’s revolutionary symbols.

Perpetual Motion • No longer static monuments to an outdated art history, museums’ permanent collection displays are more dynamic than ever.

WITNESSING GRIEF • Käthe Kollwitz’s melancholy works, the subject of a MoMA retrospective, capture the sorrow of daily life in wartime.

NATURE IS MIND MADE VISIBLE • German exhibitions celebrate Caspar David Friedrich’s 250th birthday and his iconic visions of people confronting nature.

REVIEWS • Exhibitions in Shanghai, Montreal, Miami, Munich, Sarasota, and Minneapolis

Shanghai Diary • An array of shows in a city with a booming art scene prompts reflections on science and...