There is a word in Yoruba — aṣẹ — that describes the divine energy running through all living things: the power to make things happen, to produce change, to bring the sacred into contact with the material world. It is not metaphor. It is not nostalgia. It is an active, present force that Yoruba cosmology Read MoreAfrican Digital Art
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A True-to-Life Biennale
Did the Venice Biennale “implode” because of politics? Read MoreHyperallergic
Es Devlin Is Creating a Living Portrait of the Entire U.K.
The project brings the faces of everyday people into London’s National Portrait Gallery.
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Independent Art Fair Trades Downtown for the World
As it settles into a sprawling new venue on the Lower East Side waterfront, the fair feels older, glossier, and increasingly global. Read MoreHyperallergic
Wet Paint Does Frieze Week: The Dinosaur Dealer Downtown, David Zwirner Tribeca, and More Juicy Art-World Gossip
Plus, which gallery directors are behind one of the toughest tables in town?
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Inside TEFAF New York’s Annual Wealth Pageant
There was plenty to dazzle the patrons of the Nouveau Gilded Age at this year’s edition of the Park Avenue Armory fair. Read MoreHyperallergic
Mary Lovelace O’Neal Leaves Her Mark
The artist and Civil Rights activist dies at 84, The Met and Neue Galerie merge, and NADA is back with “abstracted horniness.” Read MoreHyperallergic
Biennale Gherdëina 10: (Future) Paradise Gardens
The 10th edition of the biennale invites us into terrains both tender and turbulent—where gardens, and their often fragile or absent ecosystems, become symbols of survival, love, and the possibility of a more just future.
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One Erased Vermeer, Two Books, and No Consensus
Two new books ask what Johannes Vermeer means today—and come up with different answers. Read MoreARTnews.com
Rothko from Robert Mnuchin’s Estate Sells for $85.8 M., Leading Sotheby’s New York’s $433.1 M. Contemporary Art Sale
Canvases by Basquiat, de Kooning, and Warhol also sold well. Read MoreARTnews.com
