Monthly Archives: September 2020

AXA Art Prize 2020 Exhibition

  View the virtual exhibition here View the 2020 exhibition catalogue here   For complete details on the competition visit axaartprize.com and follow the AXA Art Prize on Instagram and on Facebook.   AXA XL, a division of AXA, developed the AXA Art Prize in partnership with the New York Academy of Art. Over the past three years, the Prize has become one of the… Read More

Peter Drake and David Kratz in conversation with Chris Wilson

  Chris Wilson splits his time between Baltimore, Maryland, and New York City  and works as a visual artist and a social justice advocate. Through his work, he investigates societal injustices, human relationships, and public policies. His artwork is collected and displayed internationally. He is also the founder of the Chris Wilson Foundation, which supports social entrepreneurs and prison education, including… Read More

Larry Ossei-Mensah and Mario Moore

Larry Ossei-Mensah, MOCAD’s Susanne Feld Hilberry Senior Curator uses contemporary art as a vehicle to redefine how we see ourselves and the world around us. The Ghanaian-American curator and cultural critic has organized exhibitions and programs at commercial and nonprofit spaces around the globe from New York City to Rome featuring such artist as Firelei Baez, Allison Janae Hamilton, Brendan… Read More

AXA Art Prize Virtual Gallery Tour and Panel Discussion

  Ian Alteveer is the Aaron I. Fleischman Curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. He recently co-curated retrospectives for Kerry James Marshall (2016), Marisa Merz (2017), and David Hockney (2017–18). He organized three Roof Garden Commissions at the museum for Pierre Huyghe (2015), Dan Graham with Günter Vogt (2014), and Imran… Read More

Kristina Newman-Scott

Kristina Newman-Scott serves as President of BRIC, a leading arts and media institution anchored in Downtown Brooklyn whose work spans contemporary visual and performing arts, media, and civic action. She is the first immigrant and first woman of color to serve in this position and one of the very few women of color leading a major New York cultural institution…. Read More

Salman Toor

Salman Toor’s sumptuous and insightful figurative paintings depict intimate, quotidian moments in the lives of fictional young, brown, queer men ensconced in contemporary cosmopolitan culture. Toor playfully engages the history of European painting, particularly certain Baroque, Rococo, Romantic, and Impressionist masters with whom he shares an aesthetic kinship; he disrupts entrenched attitudes toward gender and race prevalent within this tradition… Read More

Kate Fowle

  Kate Fowle is the director of MoMA PS1. She was appointed in 2019 after six years as the inaugural chief curator of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia, and director-at-large at Independent Curators International, New York. During her tenure at Garage, she oversaw the institution’s transition from art center to internationally recognized, public-facing museum, establishing new infrastructure… Read More

Conversation with the Critics

Johanna Fateman is a writer, art critic, and owner of Seagull salon in New York. She writes art reviews regularly for the New Yorker and 4Columns, and she is a contributing editor for Artforum. She is a 2019 Creative Capital awardee and currently at work on a novel.       Photo Credit: George Chinsee Alex Greenberger is senior editor of ARTnews, where he began as… Read More