Por LUCIAN COMOY The Argentinian-born, UK-based artist Claudia Fontes has been chosen to represent Argentina at the upcoming Venice Biennale (13 May-26 November). She shot to national fame in 2010 with Reconstrucción del Retrato de Pablo Míguez (reconstruction of the portrait of Pablo Míguez), a steel statue of a boy mounted on an underwater framework that … More Argentina chooses political artist for Venice Biennale

ARTSY EDITORIAL Por ISAAC KAPLAN 21 Abril 2017 It’s common these days to come across television characters who are artists, or try their hand at artmaking. How could one forget Homer Simpson’s brief stint as a sought-after outsider sculptor? Or Friday Night Lights’s Matt Saracen, who put down the football and picked up drawing, or … More What It’s Like to Have Your Art Exhibited to Millions—on Netflix

ARTSY EDITORIAL ALEXXA GOTTHARDT Abril 2017 The male icons of the early-20th-century Bauhaus school, like Josef Albers,László Moholy-Nagy, and Paul Klee, are some of the most celebrated pioneers of modern art. But the women artists who taught, studied, and made groundbreaking work with them are often remembered in history books as wives of their male … More The Women of the Bauhaus School