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10 Queer Indigenous Artists on Where Their Inspirations Have Led Them https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/23/t-magazine/queer-indigenous-artists.html While wide-ranging in scope and style, these pieces are alike in their power and depth. Interviews by Samuel Rutter and Caitlin Youngquist April 23, 2021, 3:35 p.m. ET Though the pandemic’s grip is starting to loosen, and relief finally feels within reach, this past year has underscored our country’s long history of violence, new examples of which serve as reminders of older ones. Among them are the myriad atrocities perpetuated against Indigeno...

Marianne Boesky Gallery now representing Celeste Rapone Celeste Rapone, Oasis, 2020. Signed, titled, and dated in ink (verso): OASIS RAPONE 2020. Oil on canvas, 70 x 70 in. 177.8 x 177.8 cm. Courtesy the artist, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen and Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago. © Celeste Rapone. Photo: Tom Van Eynde. NEW YORK, NY .-Marianne Boesky Gallery announced representation of artist Celeste Rapone in partnership with Corbett vs. Dempsey and Josh Lilley. Born in New Jersey and currently based in Chicago, Rapone is distinguished for her narrative paintings that blur the bound...

Amoako Boafo was selected to be featured in the Africa Present: INVEST section Amoako Boafo is a Ghanaian contemporary artist known for his portraits of Black figures typically done on solid color backgrounds. Creating highly textural pieces by choosing to work with his fingers rather than a traditional brush, Boafo has become an international phenomena after being discovered by another art world titan, Kehinde Wiley, via Instagram in 2018. The present work, titled Limestone in reference to the color of the stone used to create the work through the lithographic process, was published and rel...

She is. She really, really is.  In terms of galleries, I think that galleries can remove some of the snobbery around the gallery experience and stop acting like they don’t want to sell their art because that’s really off-putting. And for someone like me, who doesn’t know anything about the art world, when a gallery is off-putting, I just assume nothing is for sale. I’ll leave and go spend my money somewhere else. I think that attitude is really terrible. But I also think how they treat their employees is really terrible. I’m not particularly interested in spending my money in a pla...

Jim Dine's diptych Harry Mathews Skis the Vercour (1973) has been donated to the Rose Art Museum Sotheby's Twelve years after its collection seemed fated to be sold off by Brandeis University to raise funds, the Rose Art Museum in Waltham, Massachusetts, says it has received gifts of 86 works of art—including pieces by Francesco Clemente, Jim Dine, Jenny Holzer, Betye Saar and Andy Warhol—in honour of the 60th anniversary of its founding. The donations appear to reflect renewed confidence in the university’s ability to sustain the museum and its 9,000-plus work...