From depictions of his mother to his closest friends, Niles’s canvases illustrate a willful vulnerability to ruminate on the profound relationships in his life.
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Paying Homage to the Ancient Vessels That Transported Water
Asunción Molinos Gordo creates pitchers, jugs, and basins in centuries-old designs typical of the Iberian Peninsula and the Mediterranean.
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A Dazzling Corrective to the White-washing of Ancient Rome
Focused on mosaics, the only technique whose color doesn’t fade over time, Colors of the Romans helps audiences look at the ancient society as those living then would have seen it.
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Over 100 Unpublished Hokusai Drawings Resurface in New Exhibition
Created nearly 200 years ago for the artist’s unpublished The Great Picture Book of Everything, the works will go on view at the British Museum.
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Required Reading
This week, Lucia Hierro’s oversized sculptures of shopping bags, the billionaire obsession with outer space, shutting out comic book artists, Ishmael Reed, bad book tropes, and more.
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Alice Neel’s Haunting Portrait of Domestic Abuse
Alice Neel: People Come First yielded a work I had never seen and that I will never unsee.
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QTPOC Artists Mine the Power of Intimacy
The Self Maintenance Resource Center is a living archive of personal, creative, and intellectual inspiration for artists.
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Ragna Róbertsdóttir’s Landscapes in Lava
The Icelandic artist fashions sculptures and wall works from the primary substance of her volcanic and volatile homeland.
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The Trouble with Capitalist Utopias
Maybe a sense of belonging is a thing of the past, a sign of privilege.
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How Soutine Showed de Kooning a Way Out
It seems to me that Soutine’s complete lack of interest in the cubists’ desire for order was exactly what appealed to de Kooning.
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Unraveling Rodin’s Artistic Mystique
A corrective to the sculptor’s self-aggrandizing, The Making of Rodin draws attention to the hidden figures who made his work possible.
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Frank, Greek, and Gay: Modernist Painter Yannis Tsarouchis Is Finally Getting His Due
Dancing in Real Life makes a strong case for recognizing the Greek painter as a pioneer of queer art.