Arts

Arts

Frey, a seventh-generation basket maker, joins a long line of Wabanaki people to practice the age-old craft. But Frey, a 2025 MacArthur Fellow, doesn't let himself get stuck within that tradition. "I'm weaving to innovate," he explains of his work, which, through nuanced use of technique, material, and color, pushes the craft form squarely into the realm of fine art.

The National Gallery of Iceland will become a portal into Björk's avant-garde world with 'Echolalia,' an immersive exhibition for the 2026 Reykjavík Arts Festival from May 30 to June 14. It will showcase installations like Metamorphlings, celebrating collaborator James Merry's intricate embroidered headpieces, and the performance piece Sorrowful Soil, with Iceland's wild landscapes as its backdrop.

Luxuriate on the heart-shaped satin bed of the red-pink room. Luxuriate with the huge scaly rubber tail slapped across the seashell-shaped bed-newly repaired, it broke on its way from New York to Las Vegas -of the mermaid room.

The museum's board announced Ortiz's departure by saying it would begin the search for a new director 'with the utmost rigour that this process deserves'.

The Las Playas Intaglio, a design etched into the ground in Southwest Arizona's Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, suffered damage from heavy construction machinery.

Kasper Eistrup's new body of work, 'Bridges Over Magma,' focuses on the delicate yet resilient nature of human connection, inspired by his time in Hamburg.

"The blending of pre-Columbian cultural and religious traditions with four centuries of Spanish colonial influence formed the basis of what we come to understand as alchemy in this region, one rooted in deep spirituality of transformation that has endured over time."

The tallying of artists across major exhibitions reveals a few names that consistently appear, showcasing their sustained relevance and appeal in the international art scene.

The most-visible type is an artist who digs into the history of colonialism, surfaces some charged document or symbol, and highlights it by doing something poetic with it.

The exhibition's title speaks to the journey each student has undergone, in art and in life, forming a conceptual throughline for the works on view.

The dialogue between Pablo Picasso and Wifredo Lam belongs precisely to that category, and at Galerie Gmurzynska in the Fuller Building, that exchange is given the intimate, scholarly, and utterly seductive treatment it deserves.

Jo Noble focuses on individuals who stand for the Constitution, creating unique cards to thank judges for their rulings that uphold the rule of law. Her process involves extensive online research to identify impactful judicial decisions and the officials involved.

The counterfeits, which were forged in Poland by an unnamed co-conspirator, were often reproductions of lesser-known works by prominent and prolific artists, like Banksy and Andy Warhol.

"For years, these defendants painted themselves as purveyors of fine art while selling lies on canvas to unsuspecting collectors. Today's convictions strip away the varnish and reveal the fraud underneath."

"I do not see art as a tool for confrontation or exclusion. I believe art is a medium of hope and openness. It is a place where humanity can meet itself, even in its complexity and contradictions."

I've found this quite freeing, allowing me to explore new ideas about the relationship between people and the landscape. I love their elegant yet rickety construction, and I grew up with them around my kitchen table, so they're a strong reminder of home for me.

Five Independent Souls: The Signers from New Jersey at Morven Museum & Garden examines the lives of these lesser-known signers and confronts a confounding actuality: while risking their lives for liberty, freedom, and equality, they denied these rights to the people they enslaved.

Venba, developed by Toronto-based Visai Games, tells the story of a couple who moves from India to Canada. The gameplay involves recreating recipes from a smudged recipe book, reflecting the immigrant experience.

El Museo del Barrio has announced the curatorial team for the 2027 edition of La Trienal, which will feature works by artists of Latin American and Caribbean descent living in the United States, Puerto Rico, and around the world.

"It was a very smart trick," he tells me, because he'd start by naming the works he, as a sullen preteen, found stupid or boring, and then, by process of elimination, arrive at the pieces he liked. "Then she'd go, 'Why do you like it?'" Ehrenreich says. Suddenly, he had to learn to express why he was into art.

Impasse is a powerful, driving, high-speed performance with a set and props that reference African immigration, confronting the biased narratives etched onto Black bodies throughout history.