Artists have always sought unconventional ways to express their creative principles, which means they’re often at the forefront of innovation. On the business side of the art world, however, artists have long been confined to stale institutions like museums, auction houses, and white cube galleries. While we’ve seen some transformation…

When D.H. Lawrence finally succeeded in publishing his Modernist masterwork Women in Love, it was 1920, a scant two years after the UK Parliament passed laws allowing women over 30 to vote for the first time. …

“When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place,” reads the inscription under a busted satin bra centered by a dove of hope and circled by pill bottles of indeterminate origin. …

Some might label Rani Young unlucky. “[I was] born as a twin on Halloween,” the Chicago-based artist says in a statement about her moody work. It’s an admission that would spook even the most logical among us, but Rani is undeterred by the inauspicious circumstances surrounding her birth. “I see…

The contemporary art establishment isn’t exactly known for its accessibility. In fact, the industry is far more notorious as a toxic purveyor of snobbery and pretentiousness than anything else. This exclusionary mindset discourages artists, art lovers, and buyers alike from ever venturing into the art world to discover their favorite…

Filmmaker Andi Avery wants to confess a terrible secret. “I don’t really like watching movies,” they say when asked to share a favorite. “Living with depression and ADD means that feature-length films are often difficult for me to get through. …

“Our lives on Earth are only shells, bubbles floating on the surface of the water,” says Alessandro Keegan, whose mesmerizing work stems from childhood visions that were accompanied by a sensation of an electric shock. Now grown and based in New York, the writer and art history teacher recalls these…

To Elijah McKinnon, dreaming is a survival tactic, a blueprint passed down through generations of the African diaspora. …

“I see and understand the world through people,” says portrait artist Oluwatobi Adewumi. “Their faces, expressions, and gazes allow me to represent the often overlooked faces of Black African immigrants across the diaspora.” Raised in Nigeria, Oluwatobi — who goes by Tobi — moved to the States in 2016 for…