Maximilíano Durón

1 week ago | artnews.com | Maximilíano Durón

This past winter, Jackie Amézquita had several test bricks arranged neatly on a table in her studio in Los Angeles. In a departure from earlier work, each of these bricks, made with soil and masa de maíz (corn dough), had been inset with a mixture containing other organic materials—blue pea flower, cocoa, cochineal, charcoal, bee pollen, coffee beans, achiote—that gave them brilliant hues of blue and mauve or deep tones of ochre and black.

2 weeks ago | artnews.com | Maximilíano Durón

Lorna Simpson’s paintings draw you right in, their rich blue tones washing over you like a cresting wave. From far away, her largest paintings, measuring nearly 10 feet tall, can appear cool, even a little foreboding, but upon closer inspection, they offer much to admire. You can marvel at the painterliness of these works—their trailing drips, their swooshed strokes made by a squeegee. But these surfaces seem to hide more than they reveal.

2 weeks ago | artnews.com | Maximilíano Durón

Untitled Art has announced the 84 exhibitors that will take place in its inaugural edition, which will run September 19–21, with a preview day on September 18, at the George R. Brown Convention Center. Last November, Untitled, which has run a fair in Miami Beach for 12 years, announced its plan to expand to Houston, citing a report that totaled the Texan city’s arts-related spending for 2022 at $1.3 billion, making it the largest market in the state.

2 weeks ago | artnews.com | Maximilíano Durón

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, acquired a monumental landscape stained-glass window created by Tiffany Studios, marking the first window of its kind to enter the museum’s collection. Measuring approximately nine feet tall by seven feet wide, Mountain Landscape (Root Memorial Window) was commissioned by Woodmen of the World in 1917 as a memorial to its founder Joseph Cullen Root. The window’s design, like several from this era, is attributed to Agnes F.

2 weeks ago | artnews.com | Maximilíano Durón

The forthcoming Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles has laid off 15 full-time employees, representing 14 percent of its full-time staff. An additional seven part-time employees also had their roles eliminated, according to the Los Angeles Times, which first reported the news. In a statement sent to ARTnews, the Lucas Museum said the full-time cuts mostly affected its Learning & Engagement and Museum Services teams.