For Otobong Nkanga, human life is inextricably connected to the natural world—the water we drink, the air we breathe, the land we live on. For more than 20 years, the Nigerian-Belgian artist has pondered questions about resource extraction and replenishment through her multidisciplinary practice.
Toshiko Takaezu: Food For the Searching Soul
The belated celebration of Toshiko Takaezu’s work comes as no surprise, considering how Western art history has downsized the achievements of groundbreaking women artists.
Dreaming Material: A Conversation with Dineo Seshee Bopape
Dineo Seshee Bopape’s engrossing biography embeds her birth into a matrix of same-year events in a diffusion of the self that shows how each one of us is irrevocably intertwined with and, in essence, the product of a kaleidoscopic coincidence of circumstances.
Whitney Biennial 2024
NEW YORK Whitney Museum of American Art For curators Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli, the show forms a “dissonant chorus,” as 71 artists and collectives deploy a range of strategies and often hidden or subversive narratives to explore the challenges of our mediated contemporary experience.
Exploring Corbanscale
Corban Walker operates within a wide range of media, from photography and painting to installation, digital art, sculpture, and public art.
This Season in Sculpture Parks and Gardens
Summer is a season of abundance, not least for experiencing art beyond galleries and museums. Below, see an international list of sculpture parks and gardens—plus a few less traditional outdoor venues—worth visiting this summer, along with details on current temporary exhibitions.
Territorio de libertad: Una Conversación con María Causa
Nacida en Villa Mercedes, San Luis, la escultora María Causa se inicia en el campo de las artes con apenas 14 años cursando la Escuela de Bellas Artes Nicolás Antonio de San Luis y luego de migrar a la ciudad de Buenos Aires, cursó estudios superiores como Profesora de Dibujo y Pintura en la Escuela
Default Barometers: Restoring Finland’s Eco Art Icons
We followed a well-trod path through straight rows of 12- to 15-foot-high pines, some scraggly, some ailing or dead, before approaching the apex, where the rows evolve into a spiral pattern.
Tony Cragg
LOS ANGELES Marian Goodman Tony Cragg’s main objective as a sculptor has been to erode distinctions between the natural and the fabricated, between the handcrafted and the industrial.
Hair Turns: A Conversation with Isabelle Plat
Across a four-decade-long career, Isabelle Plat has upended art genres addressing people, places, and things by (re)constructing and (re)assembling familiar materials and then inviting viewers to interact with them. She calls these works sculpture d’usage (“usable sculpture”), but metaphor runs riot as this Parisian artist channels the stuff of everyday life into art.
