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.

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DATEBOOK • A highly discerning list of things to experience over the next three months.

Houston, We Have a Problem • The best and worst artists of our time are sending work into space.

Tribeca vs. Chelsea • New York’s biggest art neighborhoods go head to head.

Video Art • Video artists have spent decades accustomed to the short end of the institutional stick. “Signals: How Video Transformed the World,” which occupies the coveted 6th floor of the Museum of Modern Art in New York through July 8, is a major landmark in the medium’s history. Here’s a crash course on the subject.

Q&A Kerry James Marshall’s Big Pivot • The veteran history painter talks about his surprising departure from his signature style.

Allison Glenn • The curator of the Counterpublic 2023 triennial currently on view in St. Louis discusses the importance of collectivity and collaboration, along with related interests.

Hard Truths • A teacher wonders if honesty is the best policy, and an artist ponders grad school.

QUIZ Do You Actually Like Video Art?

1942 Peter Schjeldahl 2022 • A veteran of Art in America, the last of the belles-lettres critics leaves behind a legacy of vivid, unforgettable prose.

Art History Is Not a Robot • A new book offers an unconvincing look at the art historical implications of machine learning.

Memory Map • Since the 1970s, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith has pushed the boundaries of Native American art with her expansive practice, activism, and advocacy. “Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map” at the Whitney Museum of American Art is the first retrospective for an Indigenous artist that the institution has ever organized. It brings together five decades of Smith’s drawings, prints, paintings, and sculptures—including her iconic painting from 2000, Memory Map.

Leon Polk Smith’s Color Lines • Revisiting the painter’s hard-edge abstractions today reveals a nuanced engagement with identity at midcentury.

NEW TALENT • The editors of Art in America selected a global group of 20 exciting artists to watch. Read all about them in the pages that follow.

THUY-HAN NGUYEN CHI

AZIZ HAZARA

YEIN LEE

MOHAMMED SAMI

RAUL DE LARA

XINYI CHENG

DEVASHISH GAUR

MENGWEN CAO

BRONWYN KATZ

PJ HARPER

CONSTANZA CAMILA KRAMER GARFIAS

TSAI YUN-JU

THEBE PHETOGO

SHUANG LI

SOMAYA CRITCHLOW

CHRISTOPHER UNPEZVERDE NÚÑEZ

WANG XU

TARIK KISWANSON

HENRY SHUM

TERESA BAKER

NEW TALENT NEW YORK • A.i.A. visits the studios of five New York–based artists to watch.

JUSTIN CHANCE

AMRA CAUSEVIC

DAVID L. JOHNSON

CATHERINE TELFORD KEOGH

Fiber Is the New Painting • On gallery walls, tapestries are replacing canvases as young artists disregard distinctions between fine art and folk art.

bow down • As scholars revisit early matriarchal cultures, artists are rediscovering the Goddess movement.

grand theft AI • A new lawsuit asks, can you steal a style?

New Talent: The Computer • When Art in America asked Stan VanDerBeek to nominate new talent for the January–February 1970 issue of the magazine, the artist interpreted the prompt loosely and wrote an entry on “The Computer.” With his work now on view in...