Artist

Scottish artist Nnena Kalu wins Turner Prize 2025 for hanging Barcelona sculptures and Liverpool exhibition
Scottish artist Nnena Kalu has won the 2025 Turner Prize with two exhibitions, including a series of brightly coloured sculptures.The Glaswegian, 59, took home the visual arts prize along...
The Icelandic Artist Ragnar Kjartansson, Absurd and Profound in Equal Measures
Kader Attia’s film “La Valise Oubliée” (2024) cracks open a well of family memories, employing photographs and archival materials buried in three suitcases to unpack stories about the history...
St. Vincent Talks with Vinson Cunningham
On October 25, 2025, the musician St. Vincent talked with the New Yorker staff writer Vinson Cunningham at the 26th annual New Yorker Festival, a weekend of conversations, screenings,...
‘Epstein is rolling in his grave laughing’: Artist reveals why he photographed convicted paedophile – and Donald Trump
Andres Serrano says he doesn't set out to be a controversial artist - but he's certainly proved to be one during his career.The 75-year-old New Yorker first found fame...
Sergio García Sánchez and Lola Moral’s “Artist in Training”
For many of us, spending time at the beach is one of the highlights of summer. The cover of the August 25, 2025, issue, by the artist Sergio García...
‘Bad Bunny by Stillz’ Captures Six Years of Portraits of the Puerto Rican Artist
Everyone loves a Polaroid picture, the immediacy and materiality of it seeming to convey more feeling—and more of a sense of the real—than anything captured with our camera phones...
Artist drowns sculpture in plastic waste in front of the UN during plastic pollution treaty talks
GENEVA (AP) — As nations began a second week of negotiations Monday for a global accord to end plastic pollution, an artist heaped piles of plastic waste onto a...
Artist explores the toxic mining legacy of Zambia’s ‘black mountains’
Zambia's notorious "black mountains" - huge heaps of mining waste that scar the Copperbelt skyline - are deeply personal to Stary Mwaba, one of the country's leading visual artists."As...
Mourners pay tribute to famed German artist, sculptor Günther Uecker
More than 200 people gathered on Saturday to bid farewell to sculptor Günther Uecker, one of the most important German post-war artists.Born in 1930 in northern Germany, Uecker rose...
Meet Esben Weile Kjær, the Danish Artist Who Constructed a Castle in a Parking Lot in Willamsburg
Yes, Esben Weile Kjær is 6’5” with blue eyes, but he’s a man in fine art rather than finance—and the world is better off for it. The ascent of...
Artist Jenny Saville: ‘You always return to beauty, in the end’
Artist Jenny Saville: ‘You always return to beauty, in the end’
There can be few nicer ways of passing a quiet moment than sitting outside the River Cafe in London on a sunny May lunchtime, reading the menu. And then...
Dance artist Moby on the destructive force of fame – and why he’s content being that ‘weird old guy’
He is the man behind the biggest-selling electronica record of all time, but the success of Moby's album Play came with some unwanted side effects.His fifth record, the album...