Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’s (YBCA) interim CEO Sara Fenske Bahat has resigned as the institution’s galleries remain closed since February 15, following a pro-Palestine action led by eight exhibiting artists. Fenske Bahat’s departure follows weeks of turmoil at the center. After artists Jeffrey Cheung and Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo alleged that YBCA prevented them from
SARASOTA, Fla. – Each fine detail sculpted by hand brings a face back to life. “I had a lot of really distinctive features. It started off with just sort of an imagination of what this person probably looked like,” said Leighton Karpina. For five days, Leighton Karpina, a freshman at Ringling College of Art and
It began with a quote by Alexander McQueen: “I am the pink sheep in the family.” In 2013, L.A.-based contemporary street artist Ricky Sencion read a biography of the late designer and immediately connected with that feeling. More than a black sheep, but rather a pink sheep, was how Sencion felt growing up as a
Art Fairs Scooped up at TEFAF, this exceptionally rare painting will be reunited with the artist’s drawings and watercolors. Jo Lawson-Tancred 6 mins ago Gesina ter Borch, Portrait of Moses ter Borch as a Two Year Old (detail). Photo courtesy of Dickie Zebregs. The only known painting to have been completed solely by the 17th
Success arrived belatedly for generative art pioneer Vera Molnár: a major retrospective now on view opened a mere two months after her death. It was Paris’s Centre Pompidou that broke the news on X in December with a message that read, “It is with deep emotion that we learn of the death of Vera Molnár,
The difficulty of going to an art fair, as anyone who has attended more than one can tell you, is holding on to the artworks that grab you. This is especially true for contemporary art fairs where, more often than not, market trends influence the work that art dealers bring. If figuration or assemblage is
“Sadie was a true rebel. She was the most stubborn person I ever met in my life which is why she lived. She was kicked out of three schools. Once for dyeing her hair the wrong color,” Gary Chapman, University of Alabama at Birmingham art professor and artist, says. “I think Bernadette and I realized that,
Charlie Billingsley and Von Ross, creators of The Museum for Black Girls, have made the exhibit, “We CU: A Visual Celebration of Black Womanhood, Presence, and Connectedness,” which is on display at the CU Art Museum through July 13. Jada Dorsey, right, is Charlie’s daughter. (Cliff Grassmick/Staff Photographer) Boulder area 15th Street Gallery: Featuring lithographs
In Cheri Dunnigan’s Naples home studio, a severed tree stump reveals a hodge-podge of bundled wires, anvils, pliers and forming tools. Here, the renowned metalsmith designer spends months weaving each of her intricate, lace-like sculptures and jewelry, be it a double helix collar or a glimmering sundial medallion. The artist’s work is at once soft
This article is part of the Artnet Intelligence Report Year Ahead 2024. Through in-depth analysis of last year’s market performance, the new edition paints a data-driven picture of the art world today, from the latest auction results to the artists and artworks leading the conversation. These ultra-contemporary artists are making a big splash