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Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art was established in 2005 by artist Noah Becker. Over the years, it has grown into one of the leading international art magazines. Since its inception, Becker has featured over 300 writers, including many of the top names in art writing and criticism. Additionally, Whitehot Magazine has provided a platform for numerous emerging voices in the field of art writing and beyond.

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Curator Lara Bayer Brings Istanbul to New York in 'Metropoli'

4 days ago | whitehotmagazine.com | Anna Mikaela Ekstrand

Traversing New York and Istanbul, Metropoli, curator Lara Bayer’s latest exhibition held at The Consulate General of the Republic of Türkiye from April 17 to May 1, 2025, presented ten artists and their view of the metropolises. Sponsored by Turkish Airlines, the exhibition engages in placemaking—offering a space to reflect on where Istanbul is moving for Turkish viewers, and for others, a look into the relationship between the two cities.
An Interview with Laura Horne: Space, Sound, and Vision

1 week ago | whitehotmagazine.com | Jonathan Goodman

By JONATHAN GOODMAN May 6, 2025Laura Horne wears many hats. She is the founder/editor of the New York-based art journal Tussle. She is also a curator, often working in the city’s non-profit spaces. But she is, importantly and regularly, an artist in her own right. Horne creates sound work: videos and objects that relate to popular culture and usually emanate sound. This genre, relatively new, is increasing in interest and involvement.
Iliana Ortega: Magical Abstraction–An Approach to Drawing

1 week ago | whitehotmagazine.com | Jonathan Goodman

By JONATHAN GOODMAN May 8, 2025Iliana Ortega is an artist originally from Mexico, where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Guanajuato University, a public institution located in central Mexico. Later, she became the first woman from Mexico to be accepted into Yale University’s School of Art, where she completed her MFA in painting.
Mark Flood in Conversation with Noah Becker

1 week ago | whitehotmagazine.com | Noah Becker

By NOAH BECKER May 8, 2025 NOAH BECKER:Your work spans from punk music to conceptual art. How has your experience in Culturcide influenced your visual art practice? MARK FLOOD: Also, I got involved with a band and I do some of their imagery. The band is called Vulturcide and I think the first song is going up onbandcamp any day now. The lace paintings have been described as “spinster abstraction.” What draws you to lace as a material, and what are you communicating through this process?
Frieze NY 2025: Do Not Miss These Six Artists

1 week ago | whitehotmagazine.com | J. Scott Orr |Scott Orr

By J. SCOTT ORR May 8, 2025As auction houses hemorrhage staff and mid-tier galleries fold weekly, Frieze New York 2025 emerges as a battleground where art must justify its existence in an age of economic contraction and emergency. This year's edition—scaled back but intellectually ferocious—abandons market cheerleading for something more urgent: a reminder of art's capacity to translate catastrophe into meaning.
Amanda Mehl's Amehlica Part III: Divinity at Picture Theory

1 week ago | whitehotmagazine.com | Mark Bloch

By MARK BLOCH, May, 2025Is the earliest example of a fictional world Plato’s mythical city and lost civilization from “Ancient Athens” in the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantis in 360 BC? Dante's Divine Comedy, begun in 1308 AD, conjures up more recent worlds constructed by J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis--everything between Jonathan Swift's satirical novel Gulliver's Travels and the country Freedonia in Duck Soup, the 1933 Marx Brothers film.
Inside Frieze Week New York 2025: Eight Highlights

1 week ago | whitehotmagazine.com | Anna Mikaela Ekstrand

By ANNA MIKAELA EKSTRAND May 6, 2025Are there really enough collectors to support the growing number of art fairs out there? Probably not, but there are certainly enough galleries. Under Ari Emanuel’s leadership, Frieze has opened new fairs in Seoul and Los Angeles and acquired The Armory Show and Expo Chicago, and his recent acquisition of the company for $200 million indicates that he continues to believe in the business.
Protest with Rubén Ortiz-Torres at the Wallach

1 week ago | whitehotmagazine.com | John Drury

By JOHN DRURY May 6, 2025When striving beyond the mere decorative in pursuit of producing a greater statement in the arts, timing is everything. The best in art, is a reflection of the day’s events in which it is made, and the greatest artists seem to have the ability to see concurrently then, beyond that constructive moment, also forward.
Dreaming in Color: The Imaginative Paintings of Xinyu Wo

1 week ago | whitehotmagazine.com | Paul Laster

By PAUL LASTER, May 5, 2025 Since childhood, Chinese artist Xinyu Wo has been captivated by drawing from her imagination, gaining energy from her creations. By the age of ten, she was creating paintings. Inspired by the subject matter and palettes of paintings by Cézanne, Chagall, and other European Modernists and Old Masters she discovered in art books, she pursued art as a passion. Although she didn’t study art in high school in China, she decided to follow her dream in college.
I asked Carolyn Marks Blackwood About Her Photographs

2 weeks ago | whitehotmagazine.com | Noah Becker

By NOAH BECKER May 1, 2025I've been a fan of Carolyn Marks Blackwood's photographs for some time. She also works in the film world extensively and you can Google that aspect off her life. But my interaction with her has been through the art world. With a museum show in Spain, Marks Blackwood is getting busy... NOAH BECKER: Your skies are filled with motion and metaphor. When you look up at the sky, what are you hoping to see—or hoping others will see through your eyes?