Source artforum.com  With her gritty, uningratiating facture, her unruly mélange of blunt imagery and vigorous abstract mark-making, and her equally wayward blend of sarcasm and naïveté, Oda Knudsen could have easily fit

Source artforum.com  “A mundane diary of sorts,” according to the artist, Karen Lamassonne’s prolific output over many decades has documented her quotidian surroundings in the different places that have marked her nomadic

Source artforum.com  For visitors to the Art Institute of Chicago, particularly those approaching the modern wing on East Monroe Street, engagement with its current suite of exhibitions begins before entry. Stretched across

Source artforum.com  Around midnight on December 22, 1938, Afro-Brazilian artist Arthur Bispo do Rosario (1909–1989) was, he said, visited by seven angels who sent him on a mission. Days later, he appeared at the door of

Source artforum.com  Diego Marcon’s Monelle, 2017, is a violent work. Not in its visual content—there is no gore or physical abuse—but in the way it cultivates somatic unease. The nearly fourteen-minute film is made up of

Source Colossal   All images © Karen Turner, shared with permission From newspaper paintings and watercolor scenes to narrative photographs and wildly handled mugs, daily projects have continually grabbed our attention for their ritualistic nature, dedication, and ability to strengthen creative stamina. East Yorkshire-based artist Karen Turner has spent the last year in the midst of her own routine involving a…

Source artforum.com  The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, has released the names of the thirty-nine artists and collectives participating in the sixth iteration of its Made in LA biennial, to take place October 1–December 31.

Source Colossal   “Bemuse.” All images © David Popa, shared with permission After a decade of living in Finland, David Popa has established a fruitful creative collaboration that would be impossible in his native New York City. The artist frequently works on land and sea, particularly the fractured ice floes of the Baltic, to render large-scale portraits and figurative…