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Artforum —in partnership with Sotheby’s—will host “Normal Exceptions,” an online conversation that focuses on an exhibition of the same title currently up at the Museo Jumex in Mexico City. Today’s newsletter features the work and words of some of the event’s esteemed panelists as they have appeared in the magazine. Celebrating the art and artists for whom Mexico is home in one sense or another, tomorrow’s conversation welcomes Eugenio López Alonso, president of Fundación Jume...

"NADA x Foreland" will run over Upstate Art Weekend, August 28-29. Just a year ago, all socializing was plagued by a sense of tension and restraint. A peculiar and off-putting air of emotional distance accompanied the social distance mandated by health agencies. Gatherings were safest outdoors, and we were forced to accessorize with masks—a constant reminder of the bleak state of the world. A year later, in-person events have fully ...

Print this article Mother Earth, so the environmentalists love to remind us, would get along fine without Homo sapiens. Better than fine: She would thrive. Mankind is a blight, like Dutch elm disease on a global scale. “Nature is healing,” ran a popular meme of the COVID-19 pandemic whenever a wild animal was glimpsed playing boulevardier on a deserted city street. Few participants in this grim triumphalism seem to register the paradox. Neither “healing” nor “thriving” means anythi...

The eclectic lives behind Alice Neels portraits A visitor studies Alice Neel’s 1964 portrait of the civil rights leader James Farmer in the exhibition “People Come First” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, March 29, 2021. Sasha Arutyunova/The New York Times. by Erica Ackerberg (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- My introduction to painter Alice Neel was a screen print that hung on the living room wall of my grandparents’ home in Woodstock, New York — a provocative portrait of Neel’s pouting...

  AT THE RESEARCH STATION, I’m greeted by calls to safety, five pages of instructions provided by the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest, two of which are laminated. There are exhortations to slow down, to drive no faster than fifteen miles an hour, to not walk alone at dawn or dusk for risk of cougar encounters. Clear directions are posted at waste disposal sites to not contaminate the surrounding area, and the debris flume used to study erosion dynamics during landslides is festooned with w...

Nancy Holt on a NYC rooftop, October 1977 Leandro Katz. © Holt/Smithson Foundation, Licensed by VAGA/New York. The Smithsonian Institution’s Archives for American Art has acquired a vast archive of writings and publications related to the pioneering Land Art artist Nancy Holt. The first installment of the bequest, which will be held in joint ownership with the Holt-Smithson Foundation, includes more than 50,000 files spanning over four decades that follow the development...

Moira Roth in La Jolla, 1984. Photo: Max Kozloff. June 25, 2021 at 3:05pm Pathbreaking feminist art historian and author Moira Roth, who taught at Mills College for more than forty years, died June 14 at the age of eighty-seven. The news was announced by Mills College president Elizabeth Hillman, who described Roth, who came to the college in 1985 and retired in 2017 as the Eugene E. Trefethen Professor of Contemporary Art History, as a “bright light.” Her essay ...

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With an exciting programme of new exhibitions, some of Glasgow International's organisers and artists give a sense of what the festival will bring to audiences

Six artists take us from the post-colonial Caribbean to rural India, but Meiro Koizumi’s unflinching telling of Japanese atrocities in China will be seared in the memory