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What Should Artists Do If They Want Gallery Representation?

Hint: there’s no magic bullet, but don’t make these rookie mistakes. Gallerist David Zwirner and artist Yayoi Kusama. Photo: Andrew Toth/Getty Images. Finding gallery representation is not unlike dating. People are always looking for the right fit: someone supportive,...

Stunningly Life-Like Figures Hand Carved from Wood by Peter Demetz

Italian artist Peter Demetz brings ordinary wood to life with his incredible, hand-carved figures. The sculptures, which vary in size from about 20 inches to nearly 50 inches tall, feature men, women, and children standing still against a plain, sometimes-colored...

“Incomplete” Sculptures Capture the Playful and Timid Personalities of Children

Norwegian artist Lene Kilda creates figurative sculptures inspired by the emotions and personalities of children. Believing that body language is “their purest form of communication,” Kilda visualizes each childlike pose with cement-sculpted hands and feet, and...

The Limited Color Palettes Artists Can Use to Excel at Painting

Painters today have more pigments to choose from than any other artists in history. They can buy traditional, historical varieties that Rembrandt would recognize, such as siennas and ochres, or 20th-century innovations like phthalocyanines and quinacridones—pigments...

2 by Be Takerng Pattanopas

2 is the ongoing finale video which marks the end of Be Takerng Pattanopas’s AR installation Mortalverse at the circular cloister of the Great Stupa of Wat Prayoon Temple in Bangkok. It addresses the artist’s and his life partner’s mundane realities. Mortalverse AR...

What Does It Mean to Be a ‘Biennial Artist,’ Anyway?

Looking at the list of artists who have appeared most often in global art biennials since the last Documenta, in 2017, it becomes clear the extent to which the Biennial World functions as its own, freestanding universe. It has its own concerns, and its own star...