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

Worth the Wait

CONTRIBUTORS

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

Hard Truths • An artist rues downsizing his studio, and another wanders into unwanted political territory.

Are You a Gen Z Artist?

Miranda July • The multidisciplinary creator—most recently, author of the novel All Fours and visual artist whose exhibition “New Society” is on view at the Prada Foundation in Milan through October 14—discusses self-expression and creative collaboration.

Joyce J. Scott Stares Down the Past • The Baltimore legend’s beaded sculptures evoke sordid histories and vital futures.

Here at the Western World… • The artworks in Tomashi Jackson’s midcareer survey, “Across the Universe” at the ICA Philadelphia, probe the histories of culturally resonant people and places as well as sociopolitical issues related to race and the state of democracy in the United States. Here at the Western World (Professor Windham’s Early 1970’s Classroom & the 1972 Second Baptist Church Choir), 2023, is one such work that will be on view in the exhibition through June 2.

GLEB GOLUBETSKI

Italy vs. Greece • Two summer vacation art destinations go head to head.

Impressionism • Any art lover can conjure images of Impressionism, a mode of painting beloved for its lush landscapes and dazzling plays of light. But as these five texts show, the movement now celebrating its 150th anniversary was diverse in its reckoning with changing social dynamics.

Richard Serra • The artist recast sculpture as an action to be carried through until the end.

Charmaine Poh • A former child star, the Singaporean photographer and filmmaker confronts trade-offs between visibility and protection.

Pictures & Paranoia • AI-generated images are inciting widespread paranoia. Can art historians help?

María Izquierdo’s Discreet Revolution • The Mexican painter (and contemporary of Frida Kahlo) is finally getting the attention she deserves.

Transnational History

Art After ADHD • Digital technology changed our attention span—including the ways we attend to art.

Hide and Seek • Jeffrey Gibson puts Native American culture on poignant display in the Venice Biennale’s US Pavilion.

Don’t Box Her In • On the eve of a career retrospective, Shahzia Sikander continues to elude categorization.

Full Circle • In the ’60s, Fred Eversley left his NASA job to become an artist. Now, he’s finally realizing ideas 50 years in the making.

Work Hard Play Hard • Eccentric sculptor Arlene Shechet makes her recalcitrant materials feel fresh and alive.

Painting the Roses Red • Joan Snyder’s searching canvases cast her as an uncompromising creator both in and out of control.

REVIEWS • Exhibitions in Lagos, New York, Metz, Venice and Cape Town.

Lagos Diary • A biennial positions the megalopolis as “a place to think about what’s happening in the world.”

The 2024 Whitney Biennial • This year’s edition, “Even Better Than the Real Thing,” makes a strong case for the power of quietude.

“Joan Jonas: Good Night Good Morning” • The polymathic artist’s retrospective subtly proffers Japanese influences as an unexpected key to understanding her practice.

“Lacan, the exhibition. When art meets psychoanalysis” • A heady survey considers the psychoanalyst’s notorious art...