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3 days ago | 
news.artnet.com | Annikka Olsen
Fans of the Moomins have reason to rejoice this summer, as the children’s book characters created by Finnish artist Tove Jansson will alight at the Brooklyn Public Library in “Tove Jansson and the Moomins: The Door Is Always Open,” marking the first-ever exhibition dedicated to the artist and the beloved Moomins.
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4 days ago | 
news.artnet.com | Annikka Olsen
“The title was something that my father said to me when I was younger,” artist Chase Hall tells me on a video call, speaking about his new solo exhibition, “Momma’s Baby, Daddy’s Maybe,” on view at Galerie Eva Presenhuber in Vienna. On its own, the phrase is devastating, but Hall describes it matter-of-factly.
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1 week ago | 
news.artnet.com | Annikka Olsen
Katsushika Hokusai’s Japanese woodblock print colloquially known as “The Great Wave” stands as one of the most famous and widely reproduced images in the world. The famed composition crops up on everything from mugs and notebooks, to scarves and umbrellas, and even appears on the emoji keyboard.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.artnet.com | Annikka Olsen
Mary Abbott was a quintessential uptown girl, replete with an immaculate New York pedigree that made her rise within the postwar downtown art scene and as a pioneer of Abstract Expressionism all the more intriguing.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.artnet.com | Annikka Olsen
In 2018, the once obscure and overlooked Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) was catapulted into the limelight with the blockbuster retrospective “Paintings for the Future” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
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1 month ago | 
news.artnet.com | Annikka Olsen
Among the head-spinning number of fairs open this New York Art Week, TEFAF New York stands out for its emphasis on cross-category collecting—from fine art and jewelry to important design and antiquities. Taking place at the iconic Park Avenue Armory through May 13, 2025, opening day saw shoulder-to-shoulder crowds and booths overflowing with art and objects dating from across centuries. Below, we’ve rounded up just a few of the not-to-be-missed pieces you should seek out before it closes.
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1 month ago | 
news.artnet.com | Annikka Olsen
The depiction of unhappy brides or brides-to-be in 19th-century painting has struck a chord with 21st-century audiences, specifically women, with the depictions of devastated brides and depressing nuptials routinely cropping up on social media.
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2 months 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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2 months 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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Feb 27, 2025 | 
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.
