contemporary art

Angel of Uncertainty: A Conversation with Photographer Sally Mann

The photographer on her family and work.

Laura Hubber | March 4, 2019

Installation by Artist Theaster Gates Confronts Racist Imagery at Monumental Scale

An unusual sculpture serves as a disassembled totem of racism.

Frances Terpak | February 21, 2019

PODCAST: Artist Tacita Dean and Her Many Mediums

Gaeta (Fifty Photographs Plus One), 2015, Tacita Dean. 9 hand-printed gloss black and white fibre-based photographs mounted on paper, 11 hand-printed matte black and white fibre-based photographs mounted on paper, 12 hand-printed matte color photographs mounted on paper, 12 hand-printed high-gloss color photographs mounted on dibond, 7 hand-printed Cibachromes, Dimensions vary between 18 x 27 cm / 7-1/16 x 10-5/8 in. and 105 x 157.5 cm / 41-5/16 x 62 in. Courtesy of the artist, Frith Street Gallery, London and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York / Paris.

PODCAST: Artist Tacita Dean and Her Many Mediums

A wide-ranging conversation on the life and practice of a thoughtful and provocative contemporary artist.

PODCAST: Preserving and Conserving Gunpowder in the Art of Cai Guo-Qiang

Artist Cai Guo-Qiang discusses his relationship with his unusual medium and his collaboration with GCI scientists to preserve his art.

In Sally Mann’s Battlefields, Civil War Sites Are Seen Through a New Lens

On the process and thought behind photographer Sally Mann's haunting images of Civil War battle sites.

Catherine Barth | November 20, 2018

A Site-Specific Dance Echoes Across the Getty

A dance performance blurs the lines between dancer and audience, self and collective.

Hugo Cervantes | August 22, 2018

A Non-Philosopher’s Guide to Plato

A Plato primer.

Shelby Brown | July 2, 2018

From left to right: Play-Doh, 1994–2014, Jeff Koons. Polychromed aluminum, 124 × 152 1/4 × 137 in. Collection of the artist, © Jeff Koons; Head of Plato, mid-3rd century, Roman. Marble, H: 14 3/16 in. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 73.AA.16; La Habana–Venere Cubana, 2015, Michelangelo Pistoletto. Silkscreen on polished supermirror stainless steel, 98 7/16 × 49 3/16 in. Courtesy of the artist and GALLERIA CONTINUA, San Gimignano/Beijing/Les Moulins/Habana. Photo by Ela Bialkowska