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TONY COKES awarded 2024 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship

The artist Tony Cokes sits in a brown chair, wearing a black long sleeve surrounded by a colorful array of books on bookshelves. In the background, there is a bright window and white lamp.

WALTER PRICE at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Four colorful Walter Price paintings hang on a black wall. One of the paintings hangs on the far wall and three of the paintings hang perpendicular to it. The walls are painted black, the ceiling is white, and the floor is concrete.

On view at the Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren | JANA EULER: Parallele Praxis

Oil painting by Jana Euler depicting a close-up crop of a European electrical outlet. The background behind the painting is white.

On view at Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University | JUSTIN CAGUIAT: Triple Solitaire

A painting from Justin Caguiat, installation view, Triple Solitaire, Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University. Large and abstract with a concentration of yellow in the middle surrounded by various tones of red and brown as well as some splashes of light pink and white. Hung on a white wall with concrete architectural surroundings.

PAUL P. in T: The New York Times Style Magazine

The artist Paul P. standing in his studio. He is wearing a gray shirt, and black glasses. The room is white and behind him are some of his portraits hanging on the wall.

At the Whitney Museum, New York | RAQUE FORD

Raque Ford's billboard on a busy New York street with traffic and pedestrians. The billboard has the words "A little space for you right under my shoe" incorporated into two shoe prints over a pink and yellow background.

On view at Musée du Louvre, Paris | SIMONE FATTAL: Voix des antiquités orientales

Simone Fattal wears a soft white coat and decorative earrings, smiling at the viewer between two stately, dark stone sculptures, The sculpture to the left of Fattal resembles an ancient stone artifact with carved inscriptions.

At The FLAG Art Foundation, New York | LUBAINA HIMID

Lubaina Himid, installation view, Make Do and Mend, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, 2024. Two paintings hang perpendicular to each other on a white wall in a well-lit gallery with wooden floors. The painting on the left depicts two figures sitting at a red table, and the painting on the right depicts two figures sitting at a green table.

Upcoming at IVAM, Valencia | SIMONE FATTAL: Suspension of Disbelief

Simone Fattal, Zhat El Himma, 2006. Photo: Shafeek Nalakath. A stone arch stands on a simple gray pedestal. The arch is a light warm beige with a dusting of gray in some areas. At the arch’s top is a knot of shapes.

Now in print | DAVID DIAO | On Barnett Newman, 1991–2023

Two square books splayed out in a stack. The covers are identical, both a deep purple hue. “DIAO” is written in capital, bolded letters in a serif font.

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ARIA DEAN in panel discussion | American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York | Dec 7

At the Philadelphia Museum of Art | LUBAINA HIMID

Painting of five figures in colorful clothing against a blue and maroon background.

STEFFANI JEMISON receives award in Emergence Sector, Art Basel Paris

A vivid blue 'cyclorama' cloth backdrop, speckled with stars and hung with circles of reflective silvered glass.

At the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago | JACQUELINE HUMPHRIES

Jacqueline Humphries, MN +//ssss, 2023. Painted using various shades of gray and white in a cross-hatched pattern. There is a subtle layer of red also present that is more prominent in certain areas.

At The Met, New York | STEFFANI JEMISON in Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now

White rectangular table with six chairs, two on either side and one on each end. Four of the chairs are plastic and white; the other two are multicolored and woven with an unknown material. In the background, there is a large display for magazines, and above the display there are shapes resembling an unknown typeface, numbers, and letters in black.

Upcoming at The Met, New York | Flight into Egypt: STEFFANI JEMISON | Performance, January 10

RICHARD HAWKINS | Edition with Texte zur Kunst, 2024

Richard Hawkins, Entanglement Titties, 2024, an edition print. In the center is a large closeup of a figure from the neck up, mouth agape, eyes squinting, and eyebrows slightly furrowed. To the left is a portrait of Adam Driver from the neck up, in shades of blue; he stares directly at the viewer. In the lower right is a portrait of a figure from mid chest up drawn from shades of yellow. He is blond with a goatee wearing a patterned top; his right hand rests on his head. The drawing’s background is a swirl of different pinks, reds, and purples. There is a pink flower in the lower right corner.

At the Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin | PAUL CHAN

Paul Chan, installation view, After Images, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin, 2024. A sculpture lit by a spotlight in an otherwise completely dark room. In the center is a black inflatable with waving arms. The inflatable is surrounded in a circle by a mix of six shoes attached to yellow, white, and red wires.

In Manifesta 15, Barcelona | SIMONE FATTAL

Two dark sculptures in front of a stone archway.

At The Aldrich, Connecticut | BRANDON NDIFE in A Garden of Promise and Dissent

Brandon Ndife, “Shade Tree,” 2022. An assortment of furniture in a field attached to beams with a stand-alone tree at the center. The furniture is either brown or black, and made from a mix of materials. The tree is lush with greenery.

At 80 WSE, New York | DAVID DIAO

On view at Brücke-Museum, Berlin | SOPHIE VON HELLERMANN

A close-up of Sophie von Hellerman, Installation view,The Collectors in Biographies of Modern Art: Collectors and Their Works, Brücke-Museum, Berlin, 2024. A section of a large mural painted on a white wall. The scene is a multicolored blend of figures, faces, and movements.

PAUL P. Joins Greene Naftali

A close up of Paul P., Untitled, 2022. Oil on linen. A young man’s downturned face, visible from the chin to the forehead. The painting is done with various tones of brown, purple, and red with a light mustard yellow in the background to the left.

HARUN FAROCKI on view in 24/7: Work Between Meaning and Imbalance | Kunsthaus Graz, Austria

Nojus Drąsutis, The Pool Cleaners, Vilnius 2017, from Antje Ehmann, Harun Farocki, Eine Einstellung zur Arbeit / Labour in a Single Shot, 2011–ongoing. A man hunched over, presumably shoveling, immersed in water. The ground is a grimy white and green with an unclear engraving.

On view at Tate Liverpool | HARUN FAROCKI

Harun Farocki, In Comparison, 2009. A woman walking through rows of bricks, carrying a large stack of them on her head. Dry terrain, white office buildings, and several radio towers are visible in the background.

STEFFANI JEMISON in Seeing through Stone | San Jose Museum of Art

Steffani Jemison, installation view, In Succession (2019), 2019. HD video, black and white, sound. A gallery space with a video playing on the far wall. A white table with small white objects stands in the foreground facing the video. The wall that runs perpendicular to the video and table is a projection of four black and white pages.

On view at MoMA | MICHAEL SMITH

Michael Smith, installation view, Gallery 204, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. In the foreground is a living room. It has wood paneling, four leather and suede chairs either orange or red, three lamps of varying size, a bureau, a bookshelf, some wall art, an old telephone, and two dated TVs stacked on top of each other. The floors are black and brown stone, and drawn in white is a version of a hopscotch diagram. In the background is a kitchen with bright yellow tiling on the walls.

At Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo | WALTER PRICE

Five dynamic and exaggerated figures in a bright, saturated drawing. One figure has another in a chokehold while the other three passively observe.

On View at Museum Ludwig | HARUN FAROCKI, LUBAINA HIMID, DIAMOND STINGILY

Harun Farocki, Counter Music (Gegen-Musik), 2004. Video installation, 23:00 min. A split screen; to the left is the facade of a glass building with the words “commercial LILLE” lit up in blue. On the right is the same building facade but during the day time. The surrounding city’s reflection is visible in the window and the words “commercial LILLE” are black.