Inspiration

Portada del libro 'Una historia de graffiti en Valencia' del artista Nero que presenta el sábado 17 de mayo. / Osadía Ediciones Algunos recuerdan el sonido de los botes en las mochilas de los compañeros mayores del instituto. Otros no olvidan el callejón donde vieron cómo un grupo de chavales del barrio intervenía uno de los muros. Incluso quedan testigos de una banda que se hacía llamar los TGR (Terrorismo Grafitero Radical) en el barrio de Tres Forques. Siempre hay una primera vez y una veintena de grafiteros ha recordado su primer contacto con esta disciplina del arte urbano y así ha quedado recogido en el libro 'Una historia de graffiti en Valencia' (Osadía Ediciones, 2025). Todos comenzaron en algún momento de sus vidas a escribir sus nombres en la vía pública; algunos guardan el recuerdo vivo y otros no consiguen recordarlo, pero todos mantienen el impulso intacto. En la ciudad había otras firmas repartiéndose el espacio, como Ove, Rude, Tone o Luce. A todos los entrevistados se les hicieron dos preguntas: si recordaban la primera vez que vieron pintar a alguien y cuál es su zona favorita para firmar. "La primera vez que lo haces suele ser un momento [...]

Work by finalists for this year’s cycle of the largest award for women figurative realist painters is on view at the Muskegon Museum of Art.

Ciclos Vicent ha vuelto a abrir las puertas en Catarroja con una clienta inusual, la delegada de Gobierno, Pilar Bernabé, cuya presencia allí tiene una "razón de Estado" que ella misma se encargaba de revelar: "Estamos aquí en la tienda de bicis de Pepito, Ciclos Vicent, con una gran una trayectoria vital. La historia y el pasado ciclista de Pepito Vicent la conoció el presidente del Gobierno, Pedro Sánchez, muy aficionado a la bici. Del mismo modo, en las lecturas especializadas del mundo del ciclismo, tuvo conocimiento de que había perdido su taller en la dana y me pidió que prestará atención al caso y siguiera la evolución y el ritmo de cómo iban los trabajos de recuperación. Fue a partir de ahí cuando conocí personalmente a Pepito y a su hija, que son un gran ejemplo de lo que están haciendo los comercios afectados, y del esfuerzo de los autónomos afectados en seguir hacia adelante", señala Bernabé. “Hoy no solo celebramos la reapertura de un taller. Hoy celebramos el regreso de un sueño, el latido de una historia que no se ha resignado a ser olvidada”, ha manifestado la delegada. El propietario, de 82 años, lleva desde la década [...]

Aquella noche del 5 de abril de 2017, pocas personas podían prever que ese artista -Benito Martínez Ocasio, más conocido como Bad Bunny- sería, en menos de una década, uno de los nombres más lucrativos y reconocibles de la industria musical global. El puertorriqueño actuó a unos pocos metros del público, que grabó y compartió vídeos del artista en redes sociales. Las entradas para aquel concierto costaban 20 euros, una cifra que hoy contrasta con fuerza: conseguir una entrada para su gira ‘Debí Tirar Más Fotos’ es poco menos que una proeza. El artista suma ya diez fechas en Madrid y dos en Barcelona, con precios que oscilan entre los 83,30 y 615,80 euros (en los paquetes VIP). Aunque, se pueden encontrar en reventa en plataformas no oficiales por cifras que rondan los 500 euros las más básicas, y en algunos casos, 1500 euros.

Questionmark is best known for elaborate multimedia performance works, but in between those, she keeps busy. Her current work starts with images printed on fabric, then over-painted with a mix of acrylic paint and silicone. Most are of hearts and other organs, in vivid reds and oranges, sensuous yet uncanny. She let me touch them. I wanted to press my cheek against them, but as we’d just met, it felt presumptuous to ask. Later, in CHM13hTERT (2023), Questionmark again became some kind of chimeric sea creature, this time with fins. She spent 12 hours a day for 16 days in a glass enclosure at a subway station in Milan, suspended via slings and cables in a casing with a mermaid-like tail some 20 feet long. Something about monstrousness can be triggering: She tells me of viewers who yelled at her and banged on the glass. The title CHM13hTERT refers to a cell line developed to study the human genome. For Questionmark, this encoding means that, “perhaps one day, we will be able to modify it and shape it as we wish.”Questionmark made a recent artist’s edition, QuestionGen (2024), in collaboration with biohacker Josie Zayner, and the Italian publisher Nero. It’s [...]

Most people probably think of San Antonio as the “home of the Alamo,” and while the city may be the birthplace of a certain Texan imaginary, it’s also given rise to concepts that help visualize American culture in less nationalistic ways. One of those concepts is rasquachismo, an aesthetic sensibility that acts as a way to understand “an attitude or taste” prevalent within art made by Chicanos, as scholar Tomás Ybarra-Frausto wrote in his 1989 essay theorizing it. “To be rasquache,” Ybarra-Frausto wrote, “is to posit a bawdy, spunky consciousness seeking to subvert and turn ruling paradigms upside down—a witty, irreverent and impertinent posture that recodes and moves outside established boundaries.” In the decades since, rasquachismo has been a cornerstone of Chicanx studies. But until very recently, it was less widely recognized within the American art canon. To mark the 35th anniversary of Ybarra-Frausto’s essay, San Antonio’s McNay Art Museum recently mounted an exhibition, “Rasquachismo: 35 Years of a Chicano Sensibility,”to honor this homegrown idea. In many ways, the exhibition, which opened last December and closed in March, was a “celebration of San Antonio” and a “recogni

Somerset House’s complex also includes the Courtauld Institute of Art and other arts organizations.“Twenty-five years ago, Somerset House’s courtyard stopped being used as a government car park, and the last civil servants moved out of the building [formerly used as offices for HM Revenue and Customs] just before Photo London’s first fair 10 years ago,” the director of Somerset House, Jonathan Reekie, told journalists at the press preview. “The last decade has been a coming of age for both us and the fair.”Photo London, the latest edition of which runs through May 18, has also been crucial for the photography market. That market was once a niche corner of the art world. Photo London ranks as one of the top fairs in the world for photography, a medium that holds its own in the art market, despite only accounting for 1 percent of global auction sales, according to Art Basel and UBS’s 2025 Art Market Report. Leading blue-chip galleries such as Gagosian and Hauser & Wirth have begun placing increased weight on photography, with the former taking on artists like Nan Goldin, Deana Lawson, and Tyler Mitchell in the past few years. Despite this, the medium has still suffered alongside [...

By The Editors of ARTnews The new issue of Art in America, ARTnews’s sister publication, features profiles of 20 “New Talent” artists selected by the editors as significant figures to watch. The list draws on artists from locations all over the globe and working in all mediums, each of them emerging in their own ways. The Summer 2025 issue of Art in America revisits the magazine’s long-running “New Talent” designation, which was initiated in 1954 and ran regularly in the magazine until 1966. The magazine relaunched the concept in the summer of 2021 and has continued in the years since. Historically important artists identified as “New Talent” in the 1950s and ’60s include Donald Judd, Helen Frankenthaler, Ellsworth Kelly, Alfred Leslie, Norman Lewis, Joan Mitchell, and Marisol. More recent honorees include Precious Okoyomon, Tourmaline, Raul De Lara, Somaya Critchlow, Amanda Ba, Mohammed Sami, Lotus L. Kang, and more. Profiles of each of the artists are included in the print issue of the magazine and will be published online every few days in the weeks to come. Keep an eye out here for the profiles as they accumulate. Below, see the list of Art in America’s 2025 group of “New Talen

Just last week, art directors and senior leaders left the NEH while regional arts organizations across the United States spoke out against the recent cuts. The NEH has awarded more than $6 billion in grants to museums, historical sites, universities, libraries, and related organizations since it was founded in 1965. Through its grants, the NEH has long supported a variety of creative initiatives and projects. The NEH was started under the same legislation as the National Endowment for the Arts, which offers offers financial assistance for projects, shows, and exhibitions that exude excellence.

By Tessa Solomon Reporter, ARTnews A team of German archaeologists excavating in the ancient city of Nineveh, located near the modern Iraqi capital of Mosul, have announced an “extraordinary” discovery within the throne room of the North Palace of King Ashurbanipal: remnants of a monumental relief that depicts the fabled ruler of the Assyrian empire alongside two deities. According to a statement from Heidelberg University, the relief was carved on a stone slab measuring 5.5 meters long and 3 meters high, and weighing some 12 tons. Professor Aaron Schmitt of the Institute of Prehistory, Protohistory and Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology, said that not only the size of the slab, but the story it tells makes this a standout among the discoveries his team has made since excavations began in 2018 as part of the Heidelberg Nineveh project. “Among the many relief images of Assyrian palaces we know of, there are no depictions of major deities,” he said. Nineveh established itself as one of the most influential cultural capitals in the ancient world under King Sennacherib, around 700 BCE. The Assyrian Empire, already battered by a civil war, fell in 612 BCE to a joint assault from its forme

According to the Art Newspaper, the deal, signed this week by NMAA director Chase Robinson and RCU chief executive Abeer Al Akel, outlines joint efforts in archaeological research, exhibition loans, and curatorial exchange. The agreement spans three categories: joint conservation and research in archaeology, art, and history; exhibition planning and artifact loans; and professional development in areas like curatorial research and museum management. The Smithsonian-AlUla deal comes just days after the Trump administration announced a commitment from Saudi Arabia to invest $600 billion in the United States, including a massive arms deal: $142 million that will provide Saudi Arabia with “state-of-the-art warfighting equipment and services from over a dozen U.S. defense firms.”