Caravaggio may have eluded a death sentence by fleeing to Malta and Sicily, but in the end there was nowhere to run.
Thomas Micchelli
Thomas Micchelli is an artist, writer, and co-editor of Hyperallergic Weekend.
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Art of Eternal Twilight
It seems almost predetermined that the art of Sicily is rooted in the transience of life.
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Catherine Sullivan’s X-Ray Dreams
Sullivan’s film, The Startled Faction (a sensitivity training), is a tumbling-together of social satire, utopian feminism, and anarchist agitprop.
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Pure Paint, Impurely Deployed
Jason Stopa is a historically savvy painter whose approach to Pop Formalism can cut either way, toward reflexive irony or an expanded employment of the language of paint.
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Nostalgia and Reality in Picasso, Schiele, and Klimt
The drawings of Klimt and Schiele, in contrast to those of Picasso, are graphic evidence of an artist grappling with what is directly in front of him.
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Hand-Copying the Constitution and Other Responses to Trump
Oh, What a World! What a World! brings together a diverse range of artists’ reactions to the anxiety gripping the nation.
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Egon Schiele’s God of Desire
Schiele’s hometown is commemorating the centennial of his untimely death.
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Chronicling the Stains of History
Born three years after Hitler’s rise to power, the Austrian artist Bruno Gironcoli wandered a postwar mindscape of grim hallucinations and grimmer jokes.
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The Spirit of Painting in an Altered World
Revisiting a painting show that “changed the art world, for better or worse.”
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The Scribes Somehow Survive
The soldiers are killed, and the jesters change their names.
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Philip Guston’s Echoes
One of the defining features of Guston’s last decade is a paradoxical faith in the elusiveness of truth.
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The Dazzling Sweep of the Hunter Color School
Radiant Energy is the first exhibition to feature paintings by Gabriele Evertz, Robert Swain, and Sanford Wurmfeld, key members of this influential group.