HANDLED WITH CARE

At his Georgetown space, curator Todd von Ammon establishes a new template for the modern-day art gallery, bringing stimulating work to the nation’s capital, from digital media to sculptures by Helmut Lang.

The English actor soldiers through a bleak future in the new HBO series Years and Years, illuminating the refugee crisis as the moral center of a Manchester family buffeted by a distressing world that is just like our own—only more so.

After experimenting with photography, collage, and painting, the German model-turned-artist explores a sense of equilibrium in a new gallery show of her intricate sculptures inspired by the Bauhaus movement.

After planning to study medicine before becoming a writer and now an artist, the Austin native approaches her raw, delicate paintings, collages, drawings, and textiles with an open mind and trusts in her own instincts to roam as freely as the Texas landscape allows.

With practices spanning both fine art and design, the Los Angeles-based sculptor and ceramicist questions the consumerist system while taking part in it—all with a feminist perspective.

In her second book, the Japanese photographer captures the individual personalities and æsthetics of four adolescent girls in their hometowns in a collection that is both intimate and anthropological.

In her first jewelry collaboration, the painter and sculptor translates her large-scale plaster heads into necklaces, earrings, and brooches inspired by her family with the help of the two sisters behind sustainable line AGMES.

For their first-ever museum exhibition, fashion groundbreakers Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta have created an immersive experience incorporating retail, art, and one-off clothing designs in their continuing drive to question established norms.

Drawing on a wealth of visual knowledge gleaned from hours spent poring over books, Mugrabi reinterprets the concept of personal style to encompass art, architecture, and design as well in articles and her signature Muse Boards, which offer a new interpretation of the latest fashion collections.

The French artist pulls from his studies in philosophy and epistemology to create swirling abstract paintings and mixed-media sculptures assembled from found materials that touch on the basis of knowledge and rationality in the search for ultimate truth.

The young painter reinvents centuries of art history in works that merge realism and abstraction, beauty and camp, and subversion and self-absorption.

In a book of watercolors, the Swedish artist and illustrator turns away from his fashion work for more intimate portraits that reflect the fragility of the human body as a protest against the slow response to the AIDS crisis.

After bursting onto the New York art scene straight out of Columbia in the mid-2000s with his heavy metal-inspired works, the provocative artist is returning to the city from a stint upstate with newly sophisticated and subdued pieces.

Born hard-of-hearing and diagnosed early with autism, the Belgian artist creates work from strange juxtapositions of everyday objects, revealing new facets of their daily existences.

The young Manhattan-raised artist reinterprets the black urban experience in her paintings, sculptures, and installations, working with “avatars” composed of paint and recycled materials to reflect the city’s diverse energy.

The legendary artist and native New Yorker takes inspiration from the untrammeled waters of Iceland and late-night West Village jazz sets in her works about identity, memory, and desire.

After founding the Tumblr Black Contemporary Art and the Twitter and Instagram accounts Museum Mammy, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s social media manager works to bring new voices and audiences into the art history establishment.

Geometric shapes, organic forms, and architectural patterns intermingle in the artist’s vast and richly spiritual drawings.