Art in America’s Fall “Icons” Issue Features Profiles of 5

With every issue of Art in America that my staff and I put out, I am reminded that there are

Painters Amy Sillman and Cameron Martin on Tragicomic Abstraction

Editor’s Note: Ahead of Cameron Martin’s exhibition “Baseline,” on view at Sikkema Malloy Jenkins in New York through October 11,

In a 23-Hour Film, Journalists Pose Questions About Palestine

“I have a couple of questions,” an unseen person asks. Meanwhile, onscreen, an official stands at a podium, flanked by

The Defining Artistic Movements of the 21st Century

Gone for the most part are the -isms that defined artistic movements in the 20th century: Cubism, Surrealism, Fauvism, Abstract

The Artist Who Took a Young James Baldwin Under His

All of James Baldwin’s writings come back to one thing: love in the raw. No biographer since David Leeming, Baldwin’s

Deleuze’s Translated Seminars on Painting Are Chaotic and Magnificent

How do you like your philosophers on art? Suspicious? (See Plato’s condemnation of the painter as mere “creator of appearances,”