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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Carly Mandel • A New York–based sculptor blows up self-care.

Jim Jarmusch • The film director, whose book Some Collages and accompanying solo exhibition at James Fuentes Gallery are both slated for September, discusses early influences and pandemic inspirations.

Medicine & Misogyny • A conversation about self-organized health care and healing justice.

Shop Talk • Why should artists pursue gallery representation when Etsy pays better?

Am I Blue? • Oakland’s Woody De Othello offers an up-to-date melding of Funk Art and the blues as ceramic sculpture.

The Beautiful and the Damned • A new biography of Dave Hickey argues that the controversial critic belongs in the canon of American letters.

The Drawing Cure • In a year of isolation and crisis, art therapy gets its due.

LIVING AS ART • A new retrospective shows how Hannah Wilke made bodily experience the center of her work, from sexual pleasure to illness and death.

EVERYDAY ILLNESS • Growing numbers of artists depict what happens when healing becomes coping.

GUADALUPE MARAVILLA • The artist discusses his “Retablo” (2019–) works, one of which is included as a print in this issue.

THE HEALING MUSEUM • In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, art institutions are presenting themselves as sites of therapy—a trend that builds on a decades-long history.

THE PRIVACY TO • Why Simone Leigh pivoted from creating enigmatic clinics for Black women to sculpting commanding figures honoring African craft.

Living With, Dying From • How does art communicate the experience of an epidemic to those who are and are not afflicted with the disease?

GRAY AREAS • Artists respond to the work of Jasper Johns.

“The Dirty South” • Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond

Louise Bourgeois • Jewish Museum, New York

Ming Smith • Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York

Cameron Rowland • Essex Street, New York

Maya Lin • Madison Square Park, New York

“Born in Flames” • Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York

Theaster Gates • Gray, Chicago

Kit Keith • William Shearburn Gallery, St. Louis

“The Paradox of Stillness” • Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Lygia Pape • Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles

Frank Gehry • Gagosian, Los Angeles

Mercedes Azpilicueta • Gasworks, London

Deniz Gül • SALT Galata, Istanbul

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Hands On • A.i.A. Hangs with the People Who Handle the Art