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Saodat Ismailova: Nothing Disappears Completely
9+ hour, 28+ min ago (325+ words) The film continuously highlights the gap between what once existed and what remains. The elderly man, repairing the fishnets now used by his sons, recalls how "the sea was wide, defiantly arriving to Akkala" when he was young. (The town…...
Duane Michals, photographer known for sequenced works, 19322026
5+ hour, 58+ min ago (230+ words) In 1950, Michals moved to New York, where he remained for the rest of his life. The city became the subject of one of his best known works, the Empty New York series (1964), which shows early morning scenes of vacant shops…...
Francis Picabia: Against Bad Breath and Cathedrals of Shit
1+ week, 11+ hour ago (195+ words) Francis Picabia. Expanding Horizons is on view at Hauser & Wirth, London, through 1 August From the Summer 2026 issue of'Art Review'get your copy. A carefully crafted waywardness is what continues to make the work of Francis Picabia so relevant today As of…...
Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, artworld satirist behind Jerry Gogosian persona, 19852026
1+ week, 3+ day ago (305+ words) Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, the artist and curator behind the popular Jerry Gogosian Instagram account, has died. Helphenstein, who was aged forty, was found dead in a S'o Paulo hotel room. In 2024 she curated a sale of work by emerging artists,…...
Lionel Wendt: The Politics of the Male Nude
2+ week, 3+ day ago (221+ words) Wendt's nudes should not be read solely as aestheticised confessions, says Qingyuan Deng, but as acts of defiance " From the April & May 2026 issue of"Art Review'get your copy. Read next The Transnational History of Hunk Culture Rodrigues de Oliveira Silva…...
Rene Mati" wins 2026 Deutsche B'rse Photography Foundation Prize
4+ week, 12+ hour ago (200+ words) Listen next Rene Mati" on the Art Review Podcast My Father's Shadow has a lot to say about the productive deployment of the right to opacity, writes Clive Chijioke Nwonka They were awarded the "30, 000 prize for their exhibition "AS OPPOSED…...
Marisol Mendez wins 2026 Saltzman-Leibovitz Photography Prize
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (238+ words) I remember being enamoured by [Annie Leibovitz's] images', Mendez says in a statement, which led me to embrace fiction and storytelling in my own work" After all, it is usually easier to understand love or time through a poem or…...
Nicholas Pope, sculptor whose career came in two acts, 19492026
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (250+ words) The career of Nicholas Pope, whose death was announced last month, can be divided into two: before and after a long hiatus from the early 1980s, after he contracted viral encephalitis in Tanzania. Pope went to the Ruvuma valley in Tanzania…...
Thomas Zipp, artist with a sideways sense of history, 19662026
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (288+ words) Thomas Zipp, whose art was infused with a punk sensibility and sideways sense of history, has died. The nuclear bomb was another recurring motif: for a 2006 exhibition at Alison Jacques Gallery in London, Zipp ssuspended a large black balloon from…...
Michael Fullerton: The Politics of Portraiture
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (183+ words) Michael Fullerton is on view at City Art Centre, Edinburgh, through 12 April From the March 2026 issue of'Art Review'get your copy. Read next Black Portraiture: "Looking At" Or "Seeing Through"? "The flag of Peru was born from a dream. We, the…...