Julie Mehretu embodies multiple identities. She’s Ethiopian-American. She’s half black. She’s married to a woman. She’s a mother. And she’s a renowned artist.

New York-based artist Julie Mehretu has been awarded the next BMW Art Car commission, set to debut at the 24 Hours of Le Mans race in 2024 Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol’s fruitful partnership ...

Julie Mehretu will be the third artist to join the board of trustees at the Whitney Museum of American Art, which mounted a mid-career survey of her work earlier this year.

Given Mehretu’s life story, this “obsession,” as she’s called it, is the opposite of navel-gazing. She was born in 1970 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and fled that country’s civil wars ...

Artist Julie Mehretu's mid-career survey is on view now at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art before traveling to the Whitney Museum.

Julie Mehretu is the latest artist to transform a BMW racing car into a dynamic artwork. This is the 20th BMW Art Car, a BMW M Hybrid V8 racecar that’ll take to the track at Le Mans with a livery ...

Mehretu’s work, the latest in this series, will be painted on a BMW M Hybrid V8 race car, which will debut on the track at the Le Mans 24-hour race in June 2024. BMW taps artist Julie Mehretu to ...

Julie Mehretu: A Good Artist Gets a Ponderous Show at the Whitney Julie Mehretu, Retopistics: A Renegade Excavation , 2001. Ink and acrylic on canvas, 101 ½ × 208 ½ inches (257.81 × 529.59 cm.).

The work by the Ethiopian-American artist was sold by Sotheby's Hong Kong for $9.32m with fees. ... Julie Mehretu has set a new auction record for an African-born artist.

Painter Julie Mehretu is an international art-world superstar. She recently completed a $5 million commission to create a 23-by-80-foot mural for the lobby to Goldman Sachs' new Manhattan office ...

The FRONT International Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art has commissioned internationally-renowned contemporary artist Julie Mehretu, a native of Ethiopia who lives in New York, to paint a ...

Is Julie Mehretu Such a Great Artist? Jannis Kounellis Is. A new exhibition of paintings by Julie Mehretu at the Disney Hall's REDCAT Gallery, is an intriguing and, to a certain degree, befuddling ...