Features
Latest Features
Assemblage and Inheritance
For centuries, Black communities in New Orleans have cultivated a tradition of assemblage, transforming everyday materials into sacred objects and spaces.
- By
Fabric of Impulse: Fiber Artist Olga de Amaral Melds Artistic Spontaneity with Slow Craft
For almost seventy years, the Colombian weaver has repeatedly pushed the parameters of her discipline, making it ever more expressive.
- By
Southern Appeal
Bo Bartlett's coolly composed realist paintings suggest an elusive Southern essence.
- By
Staying South
These days, more and more artists who exhibit internationally are remaining in or returning to the American South, where the region's communities, histories, and materials have become essential to…
- By
Get the Magazine
The World's Premier Art Magazine since 1913. Subscribe today and save up to 33%!
Or, give the gift of Art in America. Sign Up
No Man Is an Island
Artists Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz and Sheldon Scott keep alive the memory of the African diaspora in communities of color in the American South.
- By
Hard Truths: Fools for Love
The need for approval can trap you in the churn of biennials and other art-world scams.
- By
Raque Ford’s Plexiglass Poetry
Ford, whose work is included in this year's "Greater New York," writes confessional poems, then renders them somewhat illegible using laser-cut layers of acrylic.
- By
Native Song: Marie Watt’s Communal Incantations in Fabric
The Seneca artist incorporates both Native American oral tradition and contemporary references into her additive textile works.
- By
The South: Trauma, Joy, and the Arc of America’s National Story
The table of contents for Art in America's November/December 2021 issue on the American South.
- By
Intergenerational Care: Kang Seung Lee’s Queer Archives
With conceptual acts of preservation, the artist honors the legacies of his queer predecessors.
- By
Newswire
Meet ‘Candy,’ Sunreef’s Sweet New Custom Sail Catamaran That Runs on Solar Power
‘Succession’ Leads TV Nominations for 2022 Critics Choice Awards
Drake Ditches Grammys Nominations
Biden Orders U.S. Diplomatic Boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics