Xaviera Simmons

Currently, the citizens of Miami Beach are facing mandatory evacuation due to the threat of Hurricane Irma, which the city’s mayor is calling a “nucle

10 Exhibitions Opening This Week in New York, Chicago, Kansas City, Santa Fe, London, Baden-baden, Berlin, Vienna, Amsterdam, and Barcelona

10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

A curator curating artists who curate other artists. It doesn’t get any more meta than that. The artworks collected in “The Artist’s Museum,” a nesting box of an exhibition organized by Dan Byers, are, in essence, collections themselves.

If sculpture’s basic task is to think imaginatively about three-dimensional form and challenge the relationship between space and objects, Anna Sew Hoy does so beautifully in “Invisible Tattoo.” But as the enigmatic title of the exhibition suggests, Ms. Hoy sets out to do more, teasing the boundaries between art and craft, melding different artistic lineages and evoking a sense of vision and form as a kind of mirage.

Well, we’re here. With 2016 finally coming to a close, the art world has landed in Miami for another Art Basel bacchanal. But along with the carefree glamour of the galas and the private parties, trepidation hangs in the air—whether it’s acknowledged or not. With rising tides, both symbolic and real, increasingly threatening the art world’s private paradise, we are caught between anxiety and blissful disbelief, ruefully letting the champagne flow every December, until, one year, we might be waiting on Collins Avenue for our Ubers in waist-high water. Here is some art to see in Miami that reflects our anxious times, and the promise that we may overcome them.

10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

For Whitewaller‘s November New York issue, out this week for The Salon Art + Design fair, we handpicked a few insiders—a select group of those in-the-know on all things New York—that shared with us how to navigate the city this fall.

Art Basel today announced the gallery list for its 2016 show in Miami Beach, comprising 269 leading international galleries, drawn from 29 countries across North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa.

Despite talk of an art market slump and concerns over Zika virus, the show will go on.

10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

An unusual new “super PAC,” run by artists, has cropped up on the political landscape — and it’s one that says it won’t support (or oppose) candidates or parties.

The 13th edition of Frieze London takes place in The Regent’s Park, London from 14–17 October 2015. Frieze London is sponsored by Deutsche Bank for the 12th consecutive year, celebrating a shared commitment to discovery. Unrivaled in quality, range and depth, Frieze London 2015 provides a discerning perspective on contemporary art, utilizing the expertise of leading curators including Nicola Lees (Curator, 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana), Clare Lilley (Director of Programme, Yorkshire Sculpture Park) and Gregor Muir (Executive Director, ICA, London) across its feature sections and program.

The Frieze New York 2015 Art Fair comes to Manhattan this Wednesday May 14 to Sunday May 17.

10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch

10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch

10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch

10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch

Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988), among the most renowned figures in American art, was known for exploring the complexities and contradictions

Marianne Boesky Gallery presenting Something Beautiful, a group show curated by Nicolas Wagner and Khary Simon of CRUSHfanzine

What distinguishes art that’s “inside” today’s mainstream from that which remains “outside?” Which artists were self-taught, and which were academic

When asked why she had sculpted such pronounced, sugar-coated labia on A Subtlety, the mammy-sphinx recently on view at the Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn, Kara Walker answered, “[It’s about] ownership

Within the commercial realms of art, the New Art Dealers Alliance, known as NADA, has earned its good reputation. Founded as a nonprofit in 2002

Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988), among the most renowned figures in American art, was known for exploring the complexities and contradictions

Xaviera Simmons rotates between working with photography, sound, sculpture, video and performance, a process that parallels the non-linear logic of

Sri Lankan natives stare at a woman dressed in culturally scandalous clothing, riding a crowded train. Her wide tank top and knee-length shorts might

The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University presents a groundbreaking exhibition that explores the culture of vinyl records through 50 years

A new donation to Pérez Art Museum Miami will allow the museum, already known for its art from Latin America,

Eight exhibitions that open around the world this week.