As is usual for [Cloud][0], his new works-arrangements of exposed stretcher bars and paint-slathered canvas—are as much relief sculptures as paintings. 'I've always felt that there was a really stron
When I learned to paint fifteen or twenty years ago, the dominant ideology was late modernism. In that ideology, painting was a territory where each painter staked a small aesthetic claim. There was r
Paintings are social structures, which is why their inherited authority needs to be short-circuited as part of the artistic process. That is our job as cultural producers. Remarkably, most paintings t
The paintings that Pennsylvania-based [Dona Nelson][0] has been making in the most recent years of her nearly five-decade career are commonly referred to as double-sided, but that description is incom
Si depuis quelques années les maisons de vente ont développé des initiatives–hors ventes pures–à destination d’un public élargi, elles ont opéré à l’aune d’une volonté de compléter l’offre à destinati
Stained into the weave of the canvas, it is atmospheric and ghostly–sometimes lyrical, sometimes haunting, sometimes melancholic, sometimes dreamy. Puddled in crusty accumulations, it has the presence
Art Basel 2019 opens to the public on Thursday, June 13, with two preview days, on June 11 and 12. Some 290 galleries from 34 countries will show work at the Swiss fair, which runs through June 16.
'Détournement' means taking an existing artwork or artifact and transforming it into something wiser, funnier and cooler, as evidenced in the show _Strategic Vandalism: The Legacy of Asger Jorn's Modi
When asked how she starts one of her recent quadrant-based paintings, Harriet Korman replies that her first step is to "find the center." She does so without the assistance of any measuring device, re
Harriet Korman began exhibiting her abstract paintings in 1971, during Conceptual Art’s ascendancy and when many in the art establishment considered painting to be a casualty of history’s progress. W
What's great about George Herriman's much admired early-20th-century comic strip Krazy Kat is its nearly unlimited scope for self-awareness. A stripped-down but playfully catholic style — combined
Memories of her own childhood well up in this strange, discombobulating, exciting exhibition. Wylie was born in 1934 and can remember the blitz. In her painting Rosemount (Coloured) the red outline
Often, a painting's content is described on the canvas in blocky handwriting that is as much a part of the picture as the figures the words snake around or run into. Yet in both thinking and making, t
What a show! Each section and, indeed, pretty much each individual in this rich but rigorous celebration of black artists working in the US in the 1960s and 1970s, could spin off into a separate exhib
The glory of India Art Fair is that everyone can find a piece of work that speaks to them.
In its ninth edition, the halls of India Art Fair draw from the global refugee crisis, present-day politics and violence against women.
Learning, like looking, takes time. It took until well into the 20 th century for photography to be fully accepted as art, longer for color work to make the cut. (People thought color belonged in adv
In 1997, Jane Farver, the farsighted and much-loved American curator who died in April in Venice, put together an influential exhibition called “ Out of India: Contemporary Art of the South Asian Diaspora ” at the Queens Museum. It was one of the few surveys of its kind in the United States up to that time, and Ms. Farver was...