Installation view of ‘Chris Ofili: Night and Day’ with “Blossom” (1997), left, and “Monkey Magic – Sex, Money and Drugs” (1999), right (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) A more descriptive ...

Become a paid member to listen to this article Chris Ofili’s “Lime Bar” (2014) and “Cocktail Serenade” (2014), the New Museum But the truth is that getting banned—however traumatic—can be a great ...

Modern and Contemporary Art, alongside important jewellery and watches, will feature in the major spring auctions of the Contemporary Week at Dorotheum in Vienna from 19 to 21 May 2026, followed by ...

To approach a Chris Ofili painting is to make peace with one’s own smallness. For the last twenty or so years, the British artist has accumulated entire universes on his canvases, some of which almost ...

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Chris Ofili is a British contemporary painter who works in a vibrant palette and a variety of applied textures to examine both the contemporary and historical Black experience. In intricately detailed ...

"Chris Ofili’s “show is very large, very uneven, and very transitional,” says Jerry Saltz, but ultimately, it’s a rabbit hole you should be following the artist down. Go on, Jerry: “Ofili is doing ...

That great art critic Rudolph Giuliani, then moonlighting as mayor of New York, first made Chris Ofili famous in America when, in 1999, he tried to evict the Brooklyn Museum for displaying the ...

Six notorious artistic controversies, from Édouard Manet’s “Olympia” to Tracey Emin’s “My Bed.” By Julia Halperin One of the city’s most consistently progressive institutions — which had long enraged ...

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