Vermeer died twice. The first time was in 1675, after the Dutch art market collapsed.
Rob Colvin
Rob Colvin is the editor and publisher of Arts Magazine.
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Artists Pick Artists: Matt Saunders
Matt Saunders creates unique photographs that are fabricated from the marks of his own paintings.
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At Greenpoint Open Studios, Facing Many Closed Doors
Bankers talk about art and artists talk about money, according to Oscar Wilde.
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How Serge Poliakoff Predicted 60 Years of Painting
Deep inside every great painting is the question of what it means to paint.
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Animations that Show Their Material Roots
A silhouette of a horse is drawn mid-stride several times in layers to create the effect of motion.
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A Japanese Artist Who Sculpted Rather Than Painted His Canvases
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — All of the frustration and sense of dislocation the Second World War had caused Yoshishige Furukawa was visible in the self-portrait he made after all his works were destroyed in air raids that burned down his parents’ home.
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Fantastical Landscapes That Ripple Through Time
I didn’t quite know what I was getting into when I opted to review the current show of paintings by Jason Saager at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle.
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Artists Pick Artists: Mathew Hale
Mathew Hale has responded to the seven questions by making entirely new works as answers.
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A Charming Reverence for Color: Artists Revisit Paul Klee
For Alfred Barr, Director of MoMA, “not even Picasso approaches [Klee] in sheer inventiveness,” so this 20-artist exhibition, Paul Klee, is worth a look.
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An Artist’s Hard-Earned Dream Drawings
HUDSON, N.Y. — One of the worst things an artist can have is too much skill.
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Painting According to Frieze New York
It’s been about a hundred years since Kazimir Malevich supplanted all imagery in painting with iconic shapes that point not to this world but to one he thought would come.
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Artists Pick Artists: Susan Morris
Susan Morris takes self-inventory — tracks the “I” — by actively collecting traces of herself through records of several kinds, and by several means.