Katie White

5 days ago | news.artnet.com | Katie White

Michelle Grabner wants to make us look twice, even a third or fourth time. The Milwaukee-based artist has spent her career examining visual languages that are taken for granted. Born and raised in Wisconsin, she is known for locating the patterns and systems at work in the quotidian and prosaic, be it the patterns on a quilt or the logo on a cereal box. These pieces are rooted in process.

1 week ago | news.artnet.com | Katie White

“I actually do feel quite vulnerable, putting this work out there,” said artist Antonia Showering on a call from her rustic studio in Somerset, England. “It’s only dawned on me this morning that the show is opening so soon. It’s been three and a half years since my last solo show.

1 week ago | news.artnet.com | Katie White

Diedrick Brackens keeps returning to the parable of the prodigal son. The Bible story recounts the journey of a young man who takes his inheritance and leaves his father’s house, only to squander his money with wanton behavior. Reduced to destitution, he returns, humbled, to his father’s house—only to be celebrated. The best of Artnet News in your inbox. Sign up for our daily newsletter. • The best of Artnet News in your inbox. Sign up for our daily newsletter. Signup failed. Please try again later.

2 weeks ago | news.artnet.com | Katie White

Alejandro Piñeiro Bello arrived at the Neuendorf Residency in Mallorca with one set of plans. The fates had another. Just before beginning a month-long residency at the Neuendorf House, a minimalist architectural gem designed by John Pawson and Claudio Silvestrin in the mid-1980s, the artist learned that the art supplies he’d ordered from mainland Spain had never arrived at the residency—and wouldn’t be shipped for weeks.

3 weeks ago | news.artnet.com | Katie White

She was the sensation of Paris—known for her dramatic patrician looks, a Roman nose, and a famously cinched waist, as well as her numerous extramarital affairs. But the biggest scandal of American-born socialite Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau’s life happened not in the boudoir but the salon—when, in 1884, celebrated portrait painter John Singer Sargent unveiled his daring vision of the alabaster beauty, a portrait only thinly veiled in anonymity, now known simply as: Madame X.