Guy Richards Smit is an artist known for his paintings, video installations, musicals, performance and even a sitcom, all exploring themes of narcissism, desire, power and failure. Follow him on instagram... More by Guy Richards Smit
This month: Highlights from El Museo del Barrio’s collection, artworks on book covers, Chinese bird-and-flower paintings, and more.
The Met received two gifts totaling $550K from the now-bankrupt company.
Kelly Grovier discusses his book on the history of pigments in a new podcast episode, making the case for how myths and science can enrich how we experience art.
“I deeply desire an understanding of manhood that includes tenderness and open-heartedness that is not in opposition to butchness,” said the Brooklyn-based artist.
The museum was forced to close for nearly three years after suffering extensive damage during the blast of August 4, 2020.
Inclusive design champion Kat Holmes, First Nations artist Robert Houle, telecommunications leader Philip B. Lind, community builder Nancy McCain, and Rosemary Sadlier, a founder of Black History Month in Canada, are the honorands.
Mortality has long been a theme for the irreverent artist, but his most recent show at California’s ArtCenter College of Design deals with specific losses and loves.
Reparations of the Heart prompts the question: Where would diaspora Armenians and other SWANA communities be if the Armenian Genocide had never happened?
Gary Simmons: Public Enemy surveys the artist’s career in exposing legacies of race and class in US popular culture.
Welcome to Alchemy, in which artists with famous names mix strange substances together with outcomes of variable interest.
A court ruled that Edizioni Condé Nast used a photograph of Michelangelo’s sculpture “insidiously and maliciously” in a magazine cover.
