Andy Battaglia

New York

Executive Editor at ARTnews

Executive Editor of ARTnews & Art in America, @artnews + @artinamerica. Writer/Editor/Etc.

Articles

Art in America’s “New Talent” Issue Names 20 Artists to Watch

3 weeks ago | artnews.com | Andy Battaglia

The new issue of Art in America, ARTnews’s sister publication, features profiles of 20 “New Talent” artists selected by the editors as significant figures to watch. The list draws on artists from locations all over the globe and working in all mediums, each of them emerging in their own ways. The Summer 2025 issue of Art in America revisits the magazine’s long-running “New Talent” designation, which was initiated in 1954 and ran regularly in the magazine until 1966.
Art in America Launches "New Talent" Issue Live

1 month ago | artnews.com | Andy Battaglia

To launch the publication of Art in America’s “New Talent” issue, the editors assembled some of the artists selected for 2025 along with two luminaries—Carroll Dunham and Rochelle Feinstein—to talk about the art world’s current swing from figuration to abstraction. A toast was raised to this year’s designated “New Talent” artists—20 names to watch at pivotal points in their careers, all to be revealed May 16 on newsstands and online.
At Storm King, Kevin Beasley’s Acoustic Mirror Reflects Sounds of the Seasons

1 month ago | artnews.com | Andy Battaglia

Word of mouth stands to take palpable form this season at the Storm King Art Center, when the idyllic upstate New York sculpture park plays home to an acoustic mirror created by the sculptor and sound artist Kevin Beasley. Measuring 11 feet tall and 100 feet wide, the four-part work was inspired by World War I–era defense structures that, in curved and reflective fashion, amplified distant sounds and dispersed sonic signals of encroaching enemies.
Hard Choices: Should You Sell Off Your Art Collection?

Feb 20, 2025 | artnews.com | Andy Battaglia

With a world in crisis and an art market spinning out of control, ace art-world consultants Chen & Lampert deliver a quiz full of hard choices for Art in America readers from far and wide. Your deep pockets, social connections, and discerning eye for new talent have resulted in a museum-quality freeport filled with some of the finest works made by young artists during the last decade. Now that their careers have matured, it may be time to see if your investments have as well.
Hard Truths: How Can a Gallery Assistant Overthrow a Decrepit Boss with Dodgy DJ Skills?

Feb 11, 2025 | artnews.com | Andy Battaglia

With a world in crisis and an art market spinning out of control, ace art-world consultants Chen & Lampert deliver hard truths in response to questions sent by Art in America readers from far and wide. I’m a gallery assistant at a great nonprofit in Los Angeles. This is my first job after school and I’m enjoying it a lot, even my commute from Los Feliz. The director is nice despite having very specific taste in art and music.
Women’s History Museum Looks to Fashion’s Past for Clues to the Future

Dec 30, 2024 | artnews.com | Andy Battaglia

Women’s History Museum transforms fashion from the past into contemporary art. That’s why I was not surprised when Mattie Barringer and Amanda McGowan—founders of the art collective and clothing line with a community boutique in New York—suggested that they may have met in a past life.
Orphism Survey Moves In and Out of Focus in Search of Pure Form

Dec 24, 2024 | artnews.com | Andy Battaglia

In the pantheon of the early 20th-century avant-garde, Orphism—the subject of a sweeping but diffuse survey at the Guggenheim Museum—is rare among isms in that it remains relatively understudied and misapprehended, at least in comparison to modernist cognates like Futurism, Vorticism, and Cubism.
Matthew Barney and Alex Katz Go Great Together in "The Bitch"

Dec 13, 2024 | artnews.com | Andy Battaglia

There’s no gallery show this year with a more eyebrow-raising title than “The Bitch,” and it would be hard to think of a more singular setting for a duo presentation of art by Matthew Barney and Alex Katz than the decrepit and at least a little bit creepy former restaurant space that currently plays home to O’Flaherty’s in New York.
Newsmakers: Jonathan Lethem Discusses His Abstract and Novelistic Book About Art

Dec 10, 2024 | artnews.com | Andy Battaglia

Jonathan Lethem’s Cellophane Bricks: A Life in Visual Culture is not a conventional collection of writings about art. Lethem is most famous for writing novels such as Dissident Gardens, Chronic City, Fortress of Solitude, Motherless Brooklyn, but he has also written prolifically on art, which he approaches art less as a critic and more as a fiction writer trying to imagine his way into works.
Jean-Pierre Villafañe Details His Painting on Art in America’s Latest Cover

Nov 25, 2024 | artnews.com | Andy Battaglia

Jean-Pierre Villafañe, whose painting Twelfth Night (2022) appears on the cover of this issue of Art in America, is the subject of a “New Talent” profile in the magazine. From his studio in New York, Villafañe told A.i.A. the backstory of the piece, shown below in full. The title Twelfth Night comes from a comedy by William Shakespeare that revolves around love, mistaken identity, and complexities of gender, themes that I work with a lot.