The Best Contemporary Artists and Art Collectors
Julie Mehretu speaks much like she paints — with clarity, urgency, and a deep engagement with complexity. In our recent conversation, we moved across many terrains: gesture and silence, painting Continue Reading
In Mark Milroy’s work, the painted gesture intertwines with memory, daily observation, and an ongoing search to understand the human face as an emotional landscape. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Continue Reading
By Carol Real Among the season’s exhibitions in New York, A Natural History of the Studio by William Kentridge stands out for its precision of thought and rare visual coherence. Continue Reading
In the contemporary landscape, Levan Songulashvili emerges as an artist who weaves the personal and the collective into a profoundly introspective visual narrative. Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 1991 and Continue Reading
There’s a peculiar stillness at the heart of Glenn Brown’s paintings—an eerie, swirling quiet that both beckons and unsettles. Known for his meticulous transformations of art historical imagery, Brown has Continue Reading
Marilyn Minter (b. 1948, Shreveport, Louisiana) has relentlessly interrogated the constructs of beauty, power, and desire, creating a visual language that is both seductive and subversive. Through painting, photography, and Continue Reading
Nick Cave is an artist in perpetual motion, a maker who never stops making, an artist whose practice is a call-and-response with the world around him. Born in 1959 in Continue Reading
By Carol Real Dakis Joannou is not merely a collector; he is a catalyst—a figure who transforms the role of art from the confines of possession to the expansiveness of Continue Reading
Emma Webster (b. 1989, Encinitas, California) paints landscapes that exist between memory, simulation, and myth. Her practice brings together virtual reality, sculpture, and oil painting to explore the shifting boundaries Continue Reading
Few artists have reshaped the boundaries of language and image as profoundly as Xu Bing. Born in Chongqing in 1955 and trained at Beijing’s Central Academy of Fine Arts, he Continue Reading