Author: Celeste Dempsey

Few artists make the fragility of the natural world feel as immediate as Oenone Hammersley. An internationally recognized mixed-media artist, she is known for her bold…

Some lives bend slowly toward their true work. Lisa Tahar was born in Leipzig in 1963 and never really left. She raised four children and moved…

Adamo Macri is a Montreal-based artist whose multidisciplinary practice brings together sculpture, photography, painting, video, and drawing. Rather than treating these mediums as separate forms of…

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,…