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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Eric-Paul Riege • The New Mexico fiber and performance artist sees life as a loom.

theo tyson • The recently appointed Museum of Fine Arts, Boston curator of fashion arts discusses breaking societal expectations and finding common ground, along with related interests.

New Monuments • A conversation on the future of commemorating the past.

Crypto Crunch • An old-school gallerist worries that blockchain technology will force him to pay artists on time.

Playing Dice with the Universe • Informed by principles of mathematics and physics, Tauba Auerbach searches for universal patterns and connections.

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Haunting Modernity • Two new books trace the history of Jewish art collectors and dealers in Europe.

SYMBIOTIC ART • Over the past thirty years, bio art and eco art have begun to converge.

Unstill Life • Liz Larner’s mature work evinces the same embrace of play and chance as her early experiments with bacteria.

NOT ALL MICROBES • Employing bacteria, yeast, and other microorganisms in their work, a number of contemporary artists are exploring—and challenging—the common associations of microbial life with danger.

SOWING DISCOURSE • These artists probe the politics of plants, showing how histories of forced labor and agricultural extraction continue to go hand in hand.

GOING GREEN • Conrad Ventur in conversation with Emily Watlington.

Seeds of Change • The Berlin-based Brazilian artist reports on research into the inadvertent dispersal of various plants via immigration, colonization, and the transatlantic slave trade.

REACHING BEYOND THE HUMAN • Tuomas A. Laitinen tests the limits and language of non-anthropocentric art-making.

mushrooms as metaphors • These sculptors reveal what fungi can teach us about surviving a climate crisis.

Gordon Parks • Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

Chaïm Soutine and Willem de Kooning • Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris

“Soft Water Hard Stone” • New Museum, New York

Rosemary Mayer • Swiss Institute, New York

“Another Tradition” • Morgan Library & Museum, New York

John Chamberlain • Gagosian, New York

Lucia Hierro • Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut

Jamilah Sabur • Nina Johnson, Miami

Louise Fishman • Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL

Doreen Garner • Halle für Kunst Steiermark, Graz, Austria

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