The celebrated Chicago-born, Los Angeles–based sculptor Charles Ray is now starring in a major solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago. Devoted to his figurative experiments, the exhibition shows to stunning…
Presidents of Cuba and the U.S. recently announced a rapprochement, but is the island country ready for free expression in the form of contemporary art activism?…
This week’s feature: Joshua Tree National Park Field School. At the initiative of artist/professor Nancy Floyd, Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design students traveled across the U.S. to immerse themselves…
Alexandre Arrechea, a Cuban artist and American art collectors Patricia and Howard Farber talk about the first-ever international Cuban Art Awards sponsored by the Farber Foundation. We recorded this conversation at the Wifredo…
Cuban art and culture permeate the Havana Biennial experience. The search for exhibitions, temporal projects, and performances is a gorgeous treasure hunt.
Nigerian-born curator Okwui Enwezor, director of the 56th Venice Art Biennale, sparked this conversation about the expanded black presence in the global contemporary art scene. Recording in Venice, during preview…
Crossing back through five time zones from Venice to New York, Fresh Art International dropped in on a few art fairs during Frieze Week. Levels of engagement…
Part Two of preview days in Venice at the 56th Biennale reveals the range of our encounters!
