Art
Some abstract painters are harder to fathom than others. In fact a few of them seem quite hopelessly indecipherable. A case in point is French painter Martin Barré (1924-1996), who has been receiving increasing and well-deserved attention in New York these past ten years.
Art
The exhibition Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting, currently at the Guggenheim Museum, is the first large-scale survey of this artist’s work in America since the museum’s previous survey in 1978.
Music
Abel Tesfaye’s new album, Beauty Behind the Madness, cements the former indie/DIY/Internet mystery man’s newfound commercial clout.
Art
CHICAGO — “Paintings are made for dentists.” So goes one of the many acerbic lines in artist Francis Picabia’s freewheeling poems.
Art
What do women want?
Art
When I left Gregory Gillespie: rorschaching at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects on the Lower East Side, I decided to leave it alone.
Art
Skin from the thigh of an unfortunate Philadelphia woman felled by a parasitic infection delicately lines the spines of three books in the Historical Medical Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
Opinion
Last week, Playboy announced it will forgo naked ladies on its pages come March 2016.
News
This week in art news: a photo of the iceberg believed to have sunk the Titanic headed for auction, the mystery behind an intriguing new emoji was solved, and a blockbuster exhibition marking Hieronymus Bosch's 500th birthday was announced.
In Brief
Today is a good day. Not just because it's Friday, but because the very first episode of the very first season of Bob Ross's The Joy of Painting is now online.
In Brief
After three decades of construction, Alberto Burri's monumental land art installation "Grande Cretto" has finally opened to the public, The Art Newspaper reports.
Art
The current exhibition at Canada Gallery, A Fall of Corners by Samara Golden, leads the viewer up to the threshold and almost across into an enticing, dreamlike, and slightly askew dimension.