Art in America

Art in America, the world’s premier art magazine, delivers in-depth coverage of the global contemporary art scene. Published 11 times per year, every issue contains profiles on respected and rising talents, critical essays and reviews of current exhibitions around the world, written by today’s leading artists, curators and historians.

Art in America

Finding Our Religion

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Isabelle Andriessen • A Dutch sculptor envisions how geologic and inorganic materials will persist after humans have gone extinct.

Liz Munsell • The Jewish Museum’s recently appointed curator of contemporary art discusses exhibition styles and viewer experiences, along with related interests.

The Earth Is an Artifact • A conversation on how living in the world means transforming it.

Zine Nobility • A DIY publisher wonders how to win attention at an art book fair, and a nonprofit director yearns to boot bums from his board.

Lost Illusions • Trompe l’oeil painting and Cubism share many techniques—but differ profoundly in sensibility and intent.

Mire Lee “Carriers” (2020–)

Intimacy & Alienation • In her elusive sculptures and videos, Stella Zhong toys with expectations of scale, material, and meaning.

Conflict and Creativity • A concise study of three artists who confront oppressive political situations through art.

VIBRANT BEINGS • Twenty-first-century artists find visual exuberance in Buddhism, a religion too often viewed as somber and austere.

BUILDING MORMONISM • How the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is updating their retro-futurist temples in response to a changing culture.

Practicing Ascension • Four works illuminate how artists incorporate African and Afro-Caribbean forms of reverence into art and performance.

Picturing the Holy Land • Artists address the friction between religious visions and earthbound realities of an embattled landscape.

SHAHPOUR POUYAN

seeing & believing • Four painters grapple with the impact of Christian imagery on their practice today.

“The First Homosexuals” • Wrightwood 659, Chicago

Carnegie International • Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Diane Arbus • David Zwirner Gallery, New York

“Hear Me Now” • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Wolfgang Tillmans • Museum of Modern Art, New York

Tiffany Chung • Davidson Gallery, New York

Michelle Segre • 56 Henry, New York

Denyse Thomasos • Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

Juan Genovés • Marlborough Gallery, London

Hands On • A.i.A. Hangs with the People Who Handle the Art