It’s a great summer season when the best-known biennials, documenta and Manifesta, arrive in the same year. But they aren’t the only show in town, errr, on the continent. In fact, this year there is a slew of fascinating forays into exhibition making that utilize the...
By Will Griffith Surrealism is everywhere in the art world of 2022, and yet nobody seems to know why. What makes this Surrealist explosion so unusual is how curatorial and the market seem to be working in perfect tandem, from the Venice Biennale's The Milk of Dreams...
What’s a land artist to do when everyone gets stuck inside? For renowned sculptor Andy Goldsworthy, the solution was to put the land itself on public display–and what’s more, to show how the land connects us all. With Earth Day around the corner and the precarious...
by Will Griffith It’s that time again: The Whitney Biennial is back after a calendar shuffle (you might know why), and this time, the focus is the state of America, as the Biennial’s preset agenda always is. “America” as a concept is broad, though two years into a...
How does a gallerist thoughtfully handle a lifetime career of an artist? That’s a question anchored in most dealers' minds. We’re all familiar with the peaks and perils of being the latest market darling, or the advantageous market opportunities in a “rediscovered”...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BwotV9zwXs This summer Josh Baer and the No Reserve team hit the road to highlight great art in unexpected places. In Minneapolis, we discovered The Walker Art Museum and the connecting Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. In this segment,...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osSLrjrAmEc&t=1s The Baer Faxt correspondent-at-large Kelly Cannon sits down with veteran political reporters and co-founders of Punchbowl News, Anna Palmer & Jake Sherman, to explore the intersection of art and politics from...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i3B_poUDps We take a look inside, "I will wear you in my heart of heart", a group exhibition at the Flag Art Foundation, with Director Stephanie Roach and Artistic Director Jonathan Rider. Stephanie and Jonathan discuss the overall...
Powerful, beautiful, unsettling, the Paula Rego retrospective at the Tate Britain is one of the best exhibitions I’ve seen since returning to London. I’ll be honest – it’s not the kind of work I’m usually drawn to and I didn’t expect much from the show before I...
by Jack Wilks After a long summer of meeting artists and exploring their studios, one of my most memorable visits was to Cristina BanBan’s space in Brooklyn. It was here that I got to see a new group of large-scale paintings she had been working on for her debut show...
I have a feeling Andrew LaMar Hopkins (@boyneworleans1850) will have a breakout year in 2022. After his first-ever solo show last fall at @v_over_m, Hopkins’ work was part of group shows in Milan, Paris, and New York – and he has another solo show planned at Venus...
Anna Weyant is one of the most exciting young painters working today, and she’s definitely near the top of my #Artists2Watch list. But in almost every conversation I’ve had about Weyant, John Currin’s name seems to come up. It’s often along the lines of, “She’s a...
by Angela Redai alking into Superblue’s hotly-anticipated Miami preview was like stepping into a perception-distorting Ganzfeld of sorts, even before standing inside Turrell’s AKHU. My initial reaction was clouded by the excitement of being...
