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"Chlorine Aqualung" and other works produced during a pandemic | Graham Da (via  International Gallery of Contemporary Art)  

Collage Orbit (2007) contains an image of a basketball magazine positioned at the base of a dense grid of black LA streets. (via Mark Bradford's early artworks | USA Art News)  “ Bradford’s exhibition “Tomorrow Is Another Day” received widespread press acclaim, and critic Andrew Goldstein, analyzing the work of new generation artists, called Bradford “our Jackson Pollock.” “

“Contemporary art captures the world of today and sets a lasting impression which influences years to come. ... “ (via 30 Influential and Famous Contemporary Artists And Their Art)  #contemporaryart

(via 10 Contemporary Artists You Need to Know | The Manual) #contemporaryart

“Damien Hirst’s most famous and controversial art piece, titled “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living,” ... the sculpture is a literal dead shark rotting inside a glass vat of formaldehyde.  .”  (via 10 Contemporary Artists You Need to Know | The Manual) #contemporaryart

“Japanese artist Takashi Murakami remains in-vogue amongst hip hop heads thanks to his partnerships with Louis Vuitton and several famous rappers.”  (via 10 Contemporary Artists You Need to Know | The Manual)

Insurrection! (Our Tools Were Rudimentary, Yet We Pressed On) by Kara Walker, 2000, via Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (via 5 Contemporary Black Artists You Should Know) #contemporaryart 

Pres Barack Obama by Kehinde Wiley, 2018, via National Portrait Gallery, D.C. (left); with Tar Beach #2 by Faith Ringgold, 1990-92, via National Building Museum, D.C. (right) ~ 5 Contemporary Black Artists You Should Know

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The Floating Piers, 2016.” environmental art, which usually involves wrapping of architectural objects in recyclable plastic or surrounding islands with it “ ( via 51 Most Popular Contemporary Artists | Art News by Kooness) #contemporaryart 

Anish Kapoor, Turning the world upside down, 2010 at Israel Museum, Jerusalem, by Dr. Avishai Teicher  ( via 51 Most Popular Contemporary Artists | Art News by Kooness) #contemporaryart 

Art by Huang Yuxing, a representational artist who is known for using bright, saturated, fantastical colors to depict landscapes and figures. (via 15 Contemporary Chinese Artists You Should Know )  #contemporaryart

Kuntry Kissin' (With Perfect Hair), Taylor White … White’s social media rise is indicative of what power he holds as a popular messenger for contemporary art ... (via 20 Painters Who Are Shaping the New Decade — Daily Collector)

Market Forces solo exhibition by Paul Weiner at Nancy Littlejohn Fine Art, Houston ...  The artist has also been included in group exhibitions at the Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens, Georgia, etc. (Source: 20 Painters Who Are Shaping the New Decade — Daily Collector)

Curators link artists & audiences. They translate the works of visionary painters, sculptors, filmmakers, photographers, & performers into presentations that move and inspire viewers. (via 16 Influential Young Curators Shaping Contemporary Art - Artsy)

(1) Nyugen E. Smith - Bundlehouse: Borderlines no. 6, 2018; (2) Tessa Mars -  Praying for the visa, 2019; (3) Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons - Freedome Trap, ca. 2013 ... (via 12 Caribbean Artists Who Are Shaping Contemporary Art - Artsy)

Newsha Tavakolian ~  I am Eve, 2010 ~ ILEX Gallery  (via 10 Iranian Artists Who Are Shaping Contemporary Art - Artsy)  #contemporaryart