Author: Celeste Dempsey

There is a specific discomfort built into Lib Mason’s paintings, and it doesn’t come from the subject matter alone. It comes from the gap between how…

Before a single stroke of color touches the paper, there is a photograph. Before the photograph, there is a moment a face glimpsed somewhere in the…

Photography criticism tends to reserve its highest praise for restraint: the decisive moment, the unmanipulated frame, the photographer as witness rather than author. Jane Gottlieb’s work…

The third episode of 2026’s breakout show on Apple TV, Widow’s Bay, ends with the creature of the week the perpetually sopping Sea Hag astride her prey: cynical mayor Tom…

Horatio Nelson’s sexuality is once again under the spotlight after a museum in Liverpool, UK, proclaimed the British naval hero was “queer.” Curators at the state…

Hong Kong Gagosian Hong Kong presents Pierre-Auguste Renoir from November 22, 2022 to January 7, 2023. Gagosian announces an exhibition of Pierre Auguste Renoir paintings. The…

Tricia Julian is a proudly South African, multidisciplinary artist whose creative journey has been shaped by an extraordinary range of artistic experiences. Born in Cape Town,…

When Thaddaeus Ropac announced this week that he would begin representing Florentina Holzinger, it landed as more than a standard roster update. Holzinger has spent the past…

Gary Frier is an artist whose creative practice reflects a deeply personal engagement with culture, identity, history, and the world around him. Originally educated as a…

Kunstmuseum Basel show traces the early history of queer art and artists, from the time the word “homosexual” was coined A sexual revolution quietly took place…