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4 weeks ago | 
news.artnet.com | Annikka Olsen
When artist Manuel Mathieu touched down in Paris for a residency in 2022, he had a mission: to become a “nose.”In the world of fragrance, a nose, or nez, is a colloquial term for a master perfumer (derived from classical French perfumery), and, as Mathieu quickly learned, involves upwards of seven to ten years of study and training to achieve the status.
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1 month ago | 
news.artnet.com | Annikka Olsen
What is scripted or planned versus improvised isn’t discernible in Jacklean (in rehearsal)—the latest performance project by Mariana Valencia—and that is exactly why it is as captivating as it is. Presented at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in the Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio, Jacklean (in rehearsal) was produced in collaboration with sound artist and musician Jazmin “Jazzy” Romero, who shares the stage with Valencia for the course of the 60-minute performance.
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1 month ago | 
news.artnet.com | Annikka Olsen
What does a retrospective accomplish? A major show on Gabriel Orozco in Mexico City offers a new idea. From an academic standpoint, an institutional retrospective exhibition is seen as a crowning jewel of an artist’s career, the culmination of a lifetime’s worth of work and oeuvre that has had an outsized influence on the state of artmaking.
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2 months ago | 
news.artnet.com | Annikka Olsen
In 1979, artist duo Christo and Jean-Claude developed a monumental project meant for New York City’s Central Park, known as The Gates. Comprised of several thousand steel structures (or “gates”) bearing swathes of fabric and installed along the park’s numerous winding paths, the project was not only large from a conceptual standpoint but pragmatic as well.
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2 months ago | 
news.artnet.com | Annikka Olsen
The way Leak Ke Yi Zheng describes her practice evokes the image of a gyroscope, one that maintains its propulsion through invisible yet potent forces of philosophy, theory, history, and balance—both physical and visual.
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2 months ago | 
news.artnet.com | Annikka Olsen
The Winter Show has alighted once more at New York’s Park Avenue Armory, marking the fair’s 71st edition, showcasing more than 70 dealers and gallerists from across collecting categories and from around the world all in one place. Open now through February 2, the fair benefits the East Side House Settlement, which provides critical resources and services to communities in Northern Manhattan and the Bronx.
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2 months ago | 
pynck.com | Brian Boucher |Annikka Olsen |Jo Lawson-Tancred |Jacqueline O'Neill
Skip to contentThe DigestSit back, relax, and enjoy the very best of Artnet. Our weekly newsletter features trending editorial articles, new podcast episodes, recent art world news, the best new artwork from our marketplace, and more. Trending FeaturesThe latest new writing about art and the art world. Maurizio Cattelan Explores the Spectrum of Color Photography in a Rome ExhibitionAlong with the French Academy’s Sam Stourdzé, the colorful artist has organized a vibrant exhibition.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
news.artnet.com | Annikka Olsen
The Leroy Johnson exhibition at Margot Samel—the artist’s first solo in New York City—looks like a curious little neighborhood or city street. Little “houses” lined up, each wholly unique, with recognizable hallmarks that could be found in any number of communities: signs for restaurants, images of storefronts, stoops, people, and patchwork architecture.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
news.artnet.com | Annikka Olsen
“It all kind of started with this idea about edibles,” said Stacy Lynn Waddell via video call from her North Caroline base, describing her newest body of work set to go on view with Rebecca Camacho Presents at FOG Art+Design 2025.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
news.artnet.com | Annikka Olsen
Over the past year, a comparatively obscure 19th-century painting by a little-known French-German artist has captured the imagination of audiences across social media, drawing viewers in through the rendering of a uniquely dramatic and devastating scene. Aptly titled Anguish (ca.
