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A man stands beside an immersive wooden installation featuring oversized carved leaves, sculptural furniture and Hermès accessories against olive-green walls.

Raul De Lara’s Sculptures Ask What Separates Raw Material, Medium and Meaning

Working with Hermès for the second time, the Mexican artist has transformed the brand's Madison Avenue window into an imagined world of anthropomorphized household objects, including large wooden leaves modeled on those of a favorite Central Park tree. He traces his relationship with wood back to a childhood spent around his father's architectural woodshop and to a family history that includes woodcarving traditions.
By Elisa Carollo
A woman reclines beside a monumental furry brown bear sculpture with a jeweled blue eye, pink ears and oversized paws at Kunsthaus Bregenz.

Precious Okoyomon Reflects On Play and the Garden as a Revolution of Tenderness

The celebrated Nigerian-American artist and poet whose work can be found in institutions like the Museum für Moderne Kunst, LUMA Arles and the Rubell Museum sees ecological and colonial histories as inseparable. Their MoMA PS1 courtyard commission, "Among The Flowers I Learned to Love: A Garden of Decreation," is encoded with childhood memories of safety and care, yet holds space for environmental and childhood fracture.
By Wana Udobang
A green-patinated bronze figure with a fragmented female body kneels on a pedestal while holding up a reflective object in leafy City Hall Park.

Genesis Belanger’s Classically Inspired Public Art Is a Commentary on Modern-Day Unease

“Heads or Tails” transforms City Hall Park into a psychologically charged tableau where fractured bodies, scavenging birds and artificial trees reflect the instability of contemporary public life.
By Elisa Carollo
A man wearing clear-framed glasses and a dark work jacket holding a roughly carved wooden sculptural head in an art-filled studio.

Tom Sachs Recreated Chanel’s Paris Flagship Out of Plywood and Paint in Chinatown

By Elisa Carollo
An angular wooden sculpture in a field of flowers

Where Burning Man Art Ends Up After the Burn

By Kristine Hansen
A blue-toned winter landscape shows snow-covered mountains rising behind a forest and several small wooden cabins beside an icy road.

Catherine Opie’s Norwegian Landscapes Are Portraits in Disguise

By Sarah Moroz

At MCA Chicago, Kenzi Shiokava Gets His Long-Awaited Solo Debut

By Lucas Gómez-Doyle
An outdoor installation view shows rows of small greenish glass blocks arranged across a cobblestone courtyard inside a medieval stone fortress.

The Biennale of Contemporary Keramics Finds in Rhodes Its Most Resonant Stage Yet

By Nicolas Vamvouklis
An outdoor view shows a river and rocks seen through a circular opening in a leafy green structure.

“Climate Clock” in Oulu Reckons With a Warming World

By Elise Morton
A studio portrait shows a man wearing sunglasses, a white T-shirt and tan pants standing in a cluttered workshop with tools, shelves, hoses, sculptures and worktables around him.

Sébastien Léon’s Material Exploration

By Christa Terry
Photo by Dan Bradica Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

The Temporal and Geographical Ambiguity of Mark Manders

By Elisa Carollo
An ornate museum gallery with dark curtains, glass cabinets and classical busts displays several white pillow-like sculptural figures positioned across the floor.

Erwin Wurm Transforms the Fortuny Museum into a Theater of the Absurd

By Elisa Carollo

72 Hours of Art in Salt Lake City: Museum Hopping, Spiral Jetty and Sculpture on the Slopes

By Christa Terry
A marble bust of a woman in profile, showcasing detailed facial features, a textured hairstyle, and draped clothing, placed on a square pedestal against a neutral background.

One Fine Show: “Edmonia Lewis, Said in Stone” at the Peabody Essex Museum

By Dan Duray
A bold abstract painting featuring geometric and biomorphic shapes in vivid colors. A large red circle dominates the composition, surrounded by angular forms, curved lines, and areas of black and white contrast.

The Top Lots to Watch in the March London Sales

By Elisa Carollo
Erica Mahinay seated in her studio, surrounded by large abstract paintings with vertical luminous lines and gestural forms.

Erica Mahinay’s Explorations of the Threshold Between the Seen and the Sensed

By Elisa Carollo
Portrait of the artist standing next to a work of art featuring a suitcase with a piece of meat inside and a drawing of a figure with a unicorn head.

At Swivel Gallery, Amy Bravo Confronts Intergenerational Trauma, Identity and the Power of the Collective

By Elisa Carollo
Large horn-like artworks in an otherwise empty gallery space

Mia Westerlund Roosen’s Ongoing Material Inquiry

By Christa Terry
View from inside Olafur Eliasson’s Vertical Panorama Pavilion, showing a circular opening framed by a rainbow-colored glass canopy above landscaped paths.

How the Donum Estate Cultivated a World-Class Sculpture Garden

By Elisa Carollo
A side-by-side pairing of an abstract painting on the left with organic, almost human lines and a terra cotta statue of a curvy human on the right

Adrian Parr Zaretsky’s Intimate Response to an Unthinkable World

By Christa Terry
A large, raspberry-shaped sculpture rests on a concrete floor, its surface composed of tightly packed red bead-like forms. One side ruptures into a cavern of green, turquoise, and white crystals, resembling mold and mineral growth, creating a vivid contrast between fleshy abundance and geological decay.

Artist Kathleen Ryan’s Beautiful Blight

By Mya Ward
A post-impressionist painting of a lake and valley surrounded by mountains, with expressive dabs of color suggesting reflections and vegetation.

In “Faces and Landscapes of Home,” Hauser & Wirth Brings Giacometti Back to Stampa

By Alistair MacQueen
A museum exhibition featuring paintings of people on the walls and sculpted heads in glass vitrines.

One Fine Show: “Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, More Than Character Heads” at the Belvedere in Vienna

By Dan Duray
An exterior street-level view shows a modern cylindrical building clad in vertical metal and glass panels, identified as the Toyama Glass Art Museum, standing at a city intersection under a clear blue sky.

A Museum Lover’s Guide to Toyama Glass Art Museum

By Malik Peay
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