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In Case You’ve Missed It See Kehinde Wiley’s New Suite of Presidential Portraits That Depict African Heads of State With an Ornate ‘Vocabulary of Power’

ART NET NEWS – These make up Wiley’s “A Maze of Power” series, which the artist has quietly been working on since 2012—years before he...

In Case You’ve Missed It In an Old Chicago Pipe Organ Factory, Artist Soumya Netrabile Paints Reveries of Nature, Fueled by Figaro and T.S. Eliot

ART NET NEWS – In her canvases, energetic and convulsive passages of greens, pinks, reds, and yellows turn into scenes of wildly grown backyards, clusters...

The Artists at Benin’s First-Ever Venice Biennale Pavilion Plan to Put Restitution at the Fore

ART NET NEWS – Nwagbogu, founder of Nigerian non-profit African Artists’ Foundation (AAF), will co-curate the presentation with Yassine Lassisi and Franck Houndegla, according to...

Pearls of Wisdom: Gallerist Pearl Lam Ventures to Lagos For the First Time and Meets a Smorgasbord of Cultural Activity

ART NET NEWS – Pearl Lam is a gallerist, collector, patron, and curator with over 20 years of experience being at the forefront of reimagining...

7 Questions for Senegalese Artist Soly Cissé on How the Rise of the West African Art Scene Is Reshaping Local Communities

ART NET NEWS – Hailing from Dakar, Senegal, contemporary artist Soly Cissé maintains a practice unrestricted by disciplinary boundaries. Working across painting, sculpture, drawing, and...

In Painter Tammy Nguyen’s Tropical Tableaux, Emersonian Transcendentalism and Modern Vietnamese History Synthesize to Stirring Effect

ART NET NEWS – “There are so many different topics and narratives and histories and mythologies that I want to dive deeply into, and I...

A Weak Cataloguing System Made It Easy to Steal From the British Museum. Institutions Around the Globe Are Reckoning With the Same Vulnerabilities

ART NET NEWS – Greece’s culture minister Lina Mendoni wrote a blistering commentary in response to the ongoing scandal at the British Museum, where it...

‘Is the Image Making Us, or Do We Make Images?’: Watch Video Artist Paul Pfeiffer Decode What the Rituals of Mass Sports Say About Society

ART NET NEWS – Sports arenas are places of high drama: ecstatic wins and devastating losses, injuries, saves, glory, and despair are all constantly playing...

A Connecticut Man Has Pleaded Guilty to Forging and Selling 145 Fake Peter Max Paintings

ART NET NEWS – A 29-year-old owner of an estate sales company has pleaded guilty to selling fake Peter Max paintings, the United States Attorney’s...

In Case You’ve Missed It Black Rock Senegal, Kehinde Wiley’s Closely Watched Artist Residency, Has Welcomed a New Class of 16 Artists—Meet Them Here

ART NET NEWS = They’ll stay—in staggered, one-to-three-month increments—at Black Rock’s compound in the capital city of Dakar, which offers multi-story apartments and private studios,...