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In 2014 Gillian Wearing made a photographic work titled Me as an Artist in 1984. As so often, she appears in it herself, in a bespoke and somewhat unnerving mask: on this occasion, as the title suggests, replicating her own smooth features in early adulthood, her more experienced eyes looking out, her hair teased up in a period style. Beside her, meanwhile, is a painting, an anachronistic study in biomorphic Surrealism featuring a pair of distended figures, one with huge red lips, floating in space. Until recently this was the only clue – or, if you like, confession – in Wearing’s oeu...

Adriana Varejão. Photo by Vicente de Mello, courtesy the artist and Gagosian. 3. “Artist Spotlight: Adriana Varejão” at Gagosian, New York Gagosian continues its weekly Spotlight series, highlighting one work from one artist, with Brazilian artist Adriana Varejão, ahead of her May show at the gallery’s 522 West 21st Street location. On Wednesday, the gallery is releasing a new time-lapse video of the artist creating one of her tile paintings, inspired by the Portuguese art of azulejo, traditional glazed terracotta tiles brought to Brazil in colonial times. The new work will be un...

Print Because it’s awards season, I’ve been knee-deep in historian Mark Cousin’s 15-part doc “The Story of Film: An Odyssey” and it is thoughtful, informative and takes a refreshingly global perspective on cinema. I’m Carolina A. Miranda, arts and urban design columnist at the Los Angeles Times, with the week’s essential culture news and Washington dogfluencers: The legacy of Chicano graphics “Mujer de Mucha Enagua, PA’ TI XICANA,” 1999, by Yreina D. Cervántez collages images that reflect a range of artistic influences. (Yreina D. Cervántez / SAAM) Corn tortillas and ed...

Plenty of artists and filmmakers have set out to capture empty urban landscapes in moments of COVID-19 isolation, but artist Doug Aitken’s new multiscreen film installation made in collaboration with L.A. Dance Project viscerally engulfs the viewer in the early days of the pandemic. Aitken’s film, paired with his new fabric works and light box sculptures on view at the Regen Projects gallery exhibition “Flags and Debris,” conjure the acute uncertainty and oddly alluring stillness of that moment. It was in that quietude last spring that Aitken — who typically produces multimedia wor...

Wet Paint: Artist Stands Accused of Trying to Sell a Partially Forged Raymond Pettibon Work, Collectors Lose Billions in GameStop Frenzy, & More Art-World Gossip Which Jeff Koons show is now delayed for two years? What collector joined Tico Mugrabi for his standing lunch at Atla? Read on for answers. January 29, 2021 Christian Rosa, left. Raymond Pettibon, right. SAMUEL KUBANI/AFP via Getty Images // Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for Art Los Angeles Contemporary. Every week, Artnet News brings you Wet Paint, a gossip column of original scoops reported and written by Nate Freeman. If you have a...