Jacoba Urist

2 months ago | artforum.com | Jacoba Urist

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2 months ago | artforum.com | Freda Fiala |Kaya Genç |Travis Jeppesen |Jacoba Urist

AFTER GUEST-CURATING the 2014 exhibition “The Poetry of Parmigianino’s ‘Schiava Turca,’” Italian Renaissance scholar Aimee Ng joined New York’s Frick Collection as a full-time curator in 2015. Since then, her exhibitions have included “Moroni: The Riches of Renaissance Portraiture” in 2019 and (with Antwaun Sargent) “Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick” in 2023.

2 months ago | culturedmag.com | Jacoba Urist

Torkwase Dyson in her Beacon, New York, studio. All pieces featured by the artistTorkwase Dyson is not an abstract artist. Despite her cult status among contemporary art devotees for her large, geometric sculptures, the Chicago–born, Hudson Valley–based artist insists that she is uninterested in abstraction for its own sake. Instead, she sees it as a coded language of Black liberation. “I’m interested in abstraction as a tool and a philosophy,” she explains.

Mar 21, 2025 | culturedmag.com | Jacoba Urist

David Altmejd working on his White Cube installation, 2025. Photography by Tristan Lajarrige. All images courtesy of the artist and White Cube. Sculptures embody a unique authenticity. Unlike paintings, which depict something else, sculptures are their own reality, explained artist David Altmejd at the recent New York preview for his White Cube show "The Serpent." At 50, Altmejd is known for pushing the limits of the medium: His practice sits on the knife’s edge of grotesque beauty.

Mar 12, 2025 | wmagazine.com | Jacoba Urist |Jeff Henrikson |Tyler VanVranken

Robert Nava wears Brooks Brothers shirt; The Row t-shirt; Nava’s own sweatpants; Converse shoes. Robert Nava opens the door to his cavernous Brooklyn studio in a vintage “Shout at the Devil” Mötley Crüe T-shirt and a beat-up camouflage jacket. He’s had the loft for three years and outfitted it with red velvet faux-Baroque furniture, bought on a whim at a local chandelier store—an exquisitely ironic touch.