January 2020 Art News

In the nave of Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s 18th-century Chapel, three monumental organic forms rise from the ground, spread with landscapes, buildings and mysterious structures.
Iran is home to twenty-two UNESCO World Heritage Sites, places that have been designated as important to the history of humankind.
Combining utilitarian objects, sculptures, photographs and paintings into a visual landscape meant to provoke engagement from the viewer, Comfort investigates comfort’s relationship to aesthetics and the tension that occurs when an object can be physically comfortable, but visually or psychologically uncomfortable, and vice versa.
The artworld enters 2020 with a little less humor. John Baldessari, often called the father of conceptual art, died on January 2 at the age of 88.
Arnulf Rainer numbers among the most important and influential artists of the present.
Alejandro Durán uses art to spotlight the ongoing destruction of our oceans' ecosystems.
By the 1960s many American and international artists were pushing abstraction in new directions, exploring a range of formal possibilities and liberating uses of color in their work.