Julia Halperin

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Julia Halperin

In 2016, Jennifer J. Lee, 47, was one of 10 artists assisting the abstract painter Julie Mehretu on a large-scale commission for the lobby of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art that would lead to the creation of one of the bigger paintings of the 21st century so far. Called " Howl, Eon (I, II)," it's a history painting of epic proportions, composed of two 27-by-32-foot canvases covered in ink markings that conjure the grandeur and violence of American westward expansion.

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Osman Can Yerebakan |Julia Halperin |Kabir Jhala |Wallace Ludel

Anne Imhof’s largest project in the US premiered this week at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, taking over the venue’s vast Wade Thompson Drill Hall with a three-hour long performance and installation curated by Klaus Biesenbach. The immersive show, DOOM: House of Hope (until 12 March), envelopes visitors in a bleak realm of dance, sound and sculptural forms in keeping with the Golden Lion-winning German artist’s stylised visual universe.

1 month ago | culturedmag.com | Julia Halperin

Amani Lewis, Price The Squeegee Boys: BYB NATE. Image courtesy of the artist. What happens when you become a poster child for an art market crash? For Amani Lewis and Allison Zuckerman, the only option was to lean in. In August, the two artists, both in their 30s, were featured in a front-page New York Times story about the bursting $712 million bubble for ultra-contemporary art at auction.

2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | J. Cabelle Ahn |Julia Halperin |Kabir Jhala |Anna Brady

Although institutions often pave the way for influential curatorial approaches, it tends to be through the back-and-forth interplay with the art trade that these approaches proliferate into wider trends. Such has been the case in recent years with the growing phenomenon of transhistorical exhibitions, particularly those pairing the Old Masters with contemporary artists.

2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | Julia Halperin |Elena Goukassian |Brian Allen |Torey Akers

Shortly after she began as director of the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art inTennessee in 1999, Kaywin Feldman discovered an ancient Chinese burial suit of questionable provenance and authenticity tucked away in storage. The promised gift was lying on a table under a sheet like a murder victim. After she returned the object to its donor, she writes in a new book, he did not speak to her for the rest of her tenure.