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The article discusses the life, career, and artworks of American sculptor Arlene Shechet. Topics explored include her 2024 sculpture exhibition "Girl Group" at the Storm King Art Center in New York, brief details about her family, education, and initial involvement in the arts, and the recognition earned by the distinct features and themes of her sculptures.

The article discusses the life, career, and artworks of Pakistani-American artist Shahzia Sikander. Topics explored include the controversy involving her 2023 bronze sculpture "Witness" that has been installed at the University of Houston in Texas, brief details about her family, education, and past work with miniaturist Bashir Ahmed, and her 2024 art exhibition "Collective Behavior," being presented in Venice, Italy.

The article recounts the life and works of artist Alice Shaddle. It introduces the exhibit "Alice Shaddle: Fuller Circles" at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, Illinois which aims to situate Shaddle on the continuum of Chicago modernism. It highlights Shaddle's artworks including the sculptures "Hollywood Image" and "Birthday Cake" and offers a look into her relationship with feminism.

The article features artists to watch out for in the art world. It includes painter Taína Cruz, abstract painter Paige Beeber, sculptor Eric Oglander, multidisciplinary artist Simon Benjamin, painter Amanda Ba, artist Roksana Pirouzmand from Iran, and photographer Jessica Magallanes Martinez. It discusses their art works and their personal backgrounds.

The article reviews the art exhibition "Juana Valdés: Embodied Memories, Ancestral Histories," featuring photomural and installations, at the Sarasota Art Museum in Florida.

The article discusses the life, career, and artworks of American sculptor Fred Eversley. Topics explored include the way the parabola serves as inspiration for his works, his training and work as an engineer at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) before shifting into the arts, and his participation in the 2024 art exhibition "Art & Science Collide" in Los Angeles, California.

The article previous the 2024 art exhibition "Hilary Heron: A Retrospective" at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Ireland, reviews the book "The Art of Dying: Writings, 2019-2022," by Peter Schjeldahl, and features the music album "Night Reign," by Arooj Aftab.

The article features Indigenous painter Santiago Yahuarcani and his art works. Topics discussed include the subjects of his paintings, his family background, his inspiration for his paintings, his use of a bark cloth as a canvas for his paintings, and the depiction of Indigenous deities and mythological narratives in his paintings.

The article takes a look at multicultural art galleries in the Florida Keys. Among these are Duval Street gallery, Sacred Space Gallery, Gingerbread Square Gallery and Salt Gallery. It attributes the success of the gallery owned by photographer Alan Maltz to his relationship with his digital producer and wife Leslie. It highlights efforts of Gallery on Greene owner Nance Frank in promoting Keys and Cuban artists and credits the Peyton Evans Artist Residencies for its role in developing artists.

The article offers a preview of art exhibitions, including "Jamian Juliano-Villani: It" featuring paintings at the Gagosian art gallery in New York City, "Joan Jonas: Good Night Good Morning" featuring video installations at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and "Julie Mehretu. Ensemble" featuring paintings and prints at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice, Italy.

An interview with Cherokee artist Kay WalkingStick is presented. WalkingStick discusses her approach to painting including the spiritual and the present, or future meaning in her diptychs. She talks about her relationship to art history and explains the importance of sensuality to her paintings, as well as the extent of her research on the history of landscapes before painting them. She tells the background story of her "Chief Joseph" series of paintings from 1974 and 1976.

The article reviews the exhibition "Mary Cassatt at Work" at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from May 18 to September 8, 2024, which features works by painter Cassatt, including the paintings "Portrait of Madame," "The Map" and "Portrait of a Lady."

The article reviews the exhibition "Space Makers: Indigenous Expression and a New American Art" at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas from April 13 to September 30, 2024, which features works by Native American artists, including Robert Barrell, Nathan Jackson and Steve Wheeler.

The article reviews the art exhibition "Joan Jonas: Good Night Good Morning," which features works of American artist Joan Jonas, being presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City from March 17 to July 6, 2024.

The article reviews the art exhibition "Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the eastern Bloc, 1960s-1980s," featuring photographs by Jan Ságl, sculptures by Jan Dobkowski and photographs by Libuse Jarcovjáková, at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

This section features the 2023 painting "Here at the Western World (Professor Windham's Early 1970's Classroom & the 1972 Second Baptist Church Choir," by African American artist Tomashi Jackson. Topics discussed include the way public murals influenced her artworks, the inspiration for her color palette, and her use of photographs from historical moments in creating screen prints.

An interview with Hayv Kahraman, an Iraqi-born refugee who became a Swedish citizen, is presented. Kahraman tells about her relationship to binomial nomenclature while growing up under the European Swedish education system. She talks about the anger and resistance portrayed by the figures in her painting "Loves Me, Loves Me Not" in connection to the attempt of refugees to mutilate the pattern of their fingers to be erased from the centralized database that tracks asylum seekers and migrants.