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Native American crafts meet pop culture and activism: Jeffrey Gibson’s new Culver City show MORE Jeffrey Gibson, “It Can Be Said of Them,” Installation View. Image courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California. Photo by Robert Wedemeyer. At Roberts Projects in Culver City, a solo show by Jeffrey Gibson infuses Native American crafts with pop culture, music, and activism. Imagine a textured celebration, combining graffiti and eye-popping colors with a touch of traditional aesthetics.  “Gibson is part Choctaw and part Che...

Jan. 12, 2021 This week’s picks include an artist who melds tradition, craft, and pop culture to create inclusive and uplifting messages; artworks that start on iPhones and end up large scale; and a group show that insists that humans are not the center of the universe.  Jeffrey Gibson, “IT CAN BE SAID OF THEM,” 2020. Glass beads, artificial sinew, acrylic felt, nylon thread, nylon fringe, cotton canvas, wood panel, 50 x 56 x 3.5 inches. Image courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California.  At Roberts Projects in Culver City, a solo show by Jeffrey Gibson delig...

Art Industry News: Forensic Architecture Claims a Miami Museum Censored Its Probe Into a Migrant Detention Center + Other Stories Plus, Desert X postpones its 2021 biennial and art shippers report a rocky rollout of the new Brexit procedures. The Long Duration of a Split Second, consisting of two projects, Killing in Umm al-Hiran 18 January 2017, Negev/Naqab, Israel/Palestine Investigation: 2015-ongoing, video, aerial images, text. Turner Prize 2018, Tate Britain. Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s w...

We Published Nearly 2,800 Stories in 2020. Here Are 22 of Our Favorites of the Year We take a look back at some of the most serious, most joyful, and most compelling stories of 2020 with a selection of staff favorites. December 29, 2020 A protester speaks to a crowd from the pedestal that once hosted the statue of Edward Colston. Photo by Giulia Spadafora/NurPhoto via Getty Images. There’s no way around it: it’s been a bruising year. The coronavirus pandemic taught us (as if we needed another lesson) that no one is an island. The police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and too ma...

Biography Amoako Boafo is a Ghanaian contemporary artist known for his portraits of figures typically done on solid color backgrounds. Born in 1984 in Accra, Ghana, Boafo grew up wanting to be an artist despite a lack of major arts infrastructure in his community. After supporting himself as a semipro tennis player for a few years, an older man his mother worked for offered to pay his college tuition, and he graduated from Accra's Ghanatta College of Art and Design in 2008. He moved to Vienna in 2014, and started a series of portraits of Black figures he met in the city, drawing influence fr...