Inspiration

The two-part exhibition features the work of 28 MFA candidates across several disciplines in Fine Art and Design. Now on view in Richmond, Virginia. Pratt Fine Arts is delighted to invite visitors to a two-part show curated by Alessandra Gómez at Dock 72 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

His work had everything to do with what it means to be an artist and member of a community. He was a model for us. Thaddeus Mosley’s carved wood sculptures first came to New York in 2004 when the poet Nathaniel (“Nate”) Mackey curated the debut exhibition of his work at CUE. I went because I love Nate’s work both as poet and editor and am interested in anything he does. I had never heard of Mosley before and was not sure what I would see. His exhibition reminded me of something I had long known: There are many artists of color that the art world blithely ignores.  A year later, still thinking about Mosley’s sculptures, I decided to invite myself to his studio in Pittsburgh, even though I was not writing for any art magazine and I did not have the money to go there and back on a train, much less stay in a hotel. I did not think much past wanting to talk to Mosley. For years, driven only by his passion and curiosity, and with the support of a small group of close friends and family, the self-taught artist carved wooden sculptures out of logs he [...]

Last March, we presented 15 iconic works of feminist art stretching from the first wave of feminism to the intersectional movement of today. But that roster could only scratch the surface of a potent artistic point of view. Here we add another 15 artworks that powerfully advance the feminist argument. The nearly three-ton sculpture was Lewis’s most ambitious work, and with it, she portrayed Cleopatra as a master of her own fate—something the artist aimed to become herself. Throughout her life, Lewis obscured facts related to her childhood and carefully crafted her biography in the way she wanted it to be known. But her work stood for itself and by the end of the 19th century, Lewis was the only Black woman who had participated in, and been recognized by, the American artistic mainstream. American painter and printmaker Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) depicted the “New Woman”—the label associated with 19th-century feminism—from the woman’s perspective. Unlike other Impressionists of the time, who often focused on street scenes and landscapes, Cassatt painted images of women in social and private situations, with a particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children. In T

The field of outsider art continues to expand its parameters, encompassing not only the output of self-taught artists, visionary artists, folk artists, vernacular artists, and artists with developmental, mental, and physical disabilities, but that of virtually any maker working outside the mainstream, whether by choice or by circumstance. At the same time, however, outsider art is going mainstream itself: in recent years it has been a focus of, or significant presence in, institutional exhibitions and biennials such as the upcoming Minnie Evans show at the Whitney and the 2024 Venice Biennale. Perhaps most tellingly, it is attracting attention from the art market as well, with Christie’s even holding an annual auction dedicated to work by outsiders. In line with these developments, and somewhat paradoxically, the Outsider Art Fair has become both more clearly a stakeholder in a growing market category and, at the same time, more wide-ranging than ever in its definition of “outsider.” This year’s installations run the gamut from a resurrection of Susan Cianciolo’s Run Store (2000), which features clothing and home goods created by the indie fashion designer and 40 of her friends, st

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesPAINTING OVER THE CRACKS: Amid ongoing fallout over sexual abuse allegations against Cesar Chavez, a prominent mural honoring the labor and farmworker leader was painted over yesterday in San Francisco, reports ABC 7 News. The artwork had adorned the Mission District’s Latin Rock Music House, a venue that has hosted legendary Latino performers over the years. “I did this to let everyone know. Let’s get the ball rolling. Let’s start right here and get this done,” said building owner Richard Segovia. Artist Carlos “Kookie” Gonzalez, who joined Segovia in painting over the mural, added: “In light of the allegations and confirmation of them, none of this is okay.”NO STAGE FOR SPIN. Venice’s mayor, Luigi Brugnaro, made it clear on Thursday that Russia’s pavilion at the biennale will be shut down if it crosses the line into propaganda. But he stressed that the city should still be a space for dialogue and cultural exchange. Tensions have been high since Russia announced its return to Venice for the first time since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The p

Prada‘s current ad campaign for its Spring/Summer 2026 collection is an unsettling affair, and no surprise its maker is an artist known for disturbing video art and sculptures: Jordan Wolfson, whose past works have featured a gyrating cyborg, chained-up puppets, and other terrors. Wolfson’s art is famous—and, in some cases, notorious—for its depictions of violence, both of the physical and emotional variety. A VR work that he produced for the 2017 Whitney Biennial, for example, allowed visitors to witness a man being bludgeoned by a version of Wolfson himself wielding a baseball bat. Another VR work made last year for the Fondation Beyeler, a museum just outside Basel, Switzerland, body-swapped its participants, without much warning to viewers in advance that this would happen. Wolfson first made his name as a video artist, and the Prada campaign also includes a short moving-image work that is billed as his first foray into the medium since Riverboat Song, his acclaimed 2017–18 piece. In the new video, Prada’s models numbly into the word “I” a few times, then at last utter the phrase “I am.” These words also constitute the title of the campaign, which is called “I, I, I, I AM… PRAD

For more than 60 years, Tomkins immersed himself in the contemporary art world, meeting with his subjects over many months to report stories for the New Yorker, whose staff he joined in 1960. The body of work that he assembled amounts to an unrivaled history of the art of his era—a time of seismic aesthetic changes and the explosive growth of the art market. As art took one radical new form after another in the decades following World War II, Tomkins was always eager to make sense of it, striving to render even the most esoteric artistic practices in an accessible manner. “What I came to believe, and still believe, is that the kind of profile I had in mind was a collaboration between the writer and the subject,” he wrote in the preface to the 2019 anthology. Calvin Tomkins was born on December 17, 1925, and grew up in the Llewellyn Park area of West Orange, New Jersey, a suburb of New York. His father was businessman who sold a plaster company to Allied Chemical. There were artworks at home—a Charles Burchfield, a Raoul Dufy, a painting of wolves that the family believed was a Gustave Courbet. (Alas, it [...]

As reported by The Art Newspaper, the case was made public when Mexico’s secretary of culture, Claudia Curiel de Icaza, wrote in a posting on X that the Orlando, Florida–based enterprise Coins Artifacts was selling objects deemed part of Mexico’s cultural heritage by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). In a letter sent to eBay, Curiel de Icaza demanded that the company “immediately suspend the sale and return the items to the Mexican government,” adding that the export of such objects has been illegal since 1827.

Before becoming culture minister, Klempíř was the lead singer of the funk rock band J.A.R. Many artists in the Czech Republic have raised concerns about his ability to allocate funds appropriately. “A culture minister should safeguard the independence and diversity of artistic production, not undermine it,” read a 2025 open letter signed by artists such as Eva Koťátková, who represented the nation at the 2024 Venice Biennale. The museum houses an array of notable artworks, including modernist paintings by František Kupka, Alphonse Mucha, and other noted Czech and Slovak artists of the 20th century. Its collection also includes works by Gustav Klimt, Peter Paul Rubens, Vincent van Gogh, Lucas Cranach the Elder, and Rembrandt van Rijn. Olga Kotková, currently the head of the museum’s Old Masters art collection, will now serve as interim director. In a statement, Klempíř praised her as someone “who knows the environment of the National Gallery perfectly and at the same time has a clear professional vision for its further development.”

As for what the Futurific Institute will actually look like, Freeman’s sources were less definitive, though they offered a wide range of comparisons, from the Venice Biennale and the St. Louis World’s Fair to Burning Man and TED Talks. The general idea seems to be to bridge art, culture, tech, and future problem-solving into a single event.

The artwork, which covered the facade of the Latin Rock Music House at 25th and York Streets, was removed Wednesday by the building’s owner, Richard Segovia, along with artist Carlos “Kookie” Gonzalez, according to ABC7 Eyewitness News. The decision came days after a New York Times investigation detailed allegations that Chavez abused women and girls connected to the United Farm Workers movement.  The museum’s move would be the first time it has rescinded the distinction and signals how quickly institutions are responding as the story develops.