Your Guide to NYC’s Fall Art Fairs

It’s about that time of year when the slight crisping of the air signals that the balmy summer is departing, but hasn’t disappeared just yet. Suddenly, the fluorescent lights, lively chatter, and overpriced opening wine flowing onto the New York City streets beckon...

Is Jenny Saville the UK’s Greatest Living Painter?

LONDON — Of all the YBAs (Young British Artists) of the 1990s — including upstarts like Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, mouthing off petulantly to the art establishment with dead livestock and unmade beds — it is Jenny Saville who has been most entrenched in the history...

Photographs That Depict Dementia With Dignity

In photographer Alicia Vera’s portrait of her mother, Concepcion, she gazes skyward, her expression somewhere between curious and awestruck. The image has enough stylistic mottling and grain to obscure any sort of background, but Concepcion is clear: broad cheekbones,...

Pennsylvania Museum Sues Trump Administration Over Grant Cuts

A Pennsylvania art museum is suing the Trump administration after the government terminated a $750,000 federal grant for collection conservation earlier this year. The Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia filed a lawsuit yesterday, August 26, against President Donald...

Wafaa Bilal Asks What it Means to be Arab in America

CHICAGO — Though Wafaa Bilal was born in Iraq and is based in New York, his survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Indulge Me, can be called a homecoming of sorts. In 2007, the accomplished yet underrated artist captured the art world’s attention with...

Africa Wants a More Accurate World Map

The African Union, an intergovernmental organization of 55 African countries, endorsed a version of the world map that more accurately reflects the continent’s scale earlier this month, as first reported by Reuters. The union said it would back the Correct the...