The post Carly Rae Jepsen on the Art That Defined Her Decade appeared first on Consequence of Sound. Carly Rae Jepsen is about to climb the Sydney Harbour Bridge. “You got me with the ‘once in a ...

In the final installment of this four-part series, our critic reveals his picks—number 25 through number 1—of the key artworks of the 2010s. A still from Arthur Jafa's Love is the Message, The Message ...

As the year comes to a close we have to wonder, what are the artworks that defined 2025? Here, several international curators and renowned museum directors reveal the pieces that—in their expert ...

When ESSENCE magazine’s inaugural issue was released in May of 1970, it stood alone in affirming the boldness, beauty and brilliance of Black women. Since then, it has remained steadfast in that ...

Pueblo pottery, Western Apache beadwork, Córdova woodcarving, San Juan Paiute baskets, and Two Grey Hills/Toadlena textiles are all covered in Margaret Moore Booker’s new book Southwest Art Defined: ...

What is art? How do we define art? What is art? How do we define art? In this episode, we explore some of the many ways that artists and writers and thinkers have defined and understood this thing we ...

A century ago, in October 1912, a silent newsreel flew out from Paris bearing one of history's hottest cultural updates. The footage is lost, but we can imagine its title cards: "Artist makes pictures ...

San Francisco’s art holds a symbiotic relationship with the city itself. It encapsulates how agonizing, wonderful, and resilient San Francisco can be while reshaping the culture itself. After a ...

In a year that proved to be a trying time globally in many ways, the flourishing art world was an outlier. The art market soared to new heights as living, ultra-contemporary artists took center stage.

Until recently, it was commonly thought that the importance of the art of England in the 18th and early 19th centuries lay almost entirely in those large and aristocratic portraits—Reyn-oldses, ...

This story was originally published in ESSENCE’s special 55th anniversary July/August 2025 issue, on stands now. When ESSENCE magazine’s inaugural issue was released in May of 1970, it stood alone in ...