Art
An Old Painter Stares at His Hands
Georg Baselitz reflects on his own aging hands through the prism of all the art he has seen.
Georg Baselitz
Art
Navigating the Overload at the Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale’s official exhibition, May You Live In Interesting Times, presents art that speaks to the present, not in the direct fashion of journalism, but in ways that can challenge existing habits of thought.
Art
The Spirit of Painting in an Altered World
Revisiting a painting show that “changed the art world, for better or worse.”
Art
Art Is Genderful! An Artist's Notes on Navigating a Sexist System
A lot of people mistake my work for a man’s.
Art
Hardware and Soft Concepts at the Bass Museum
MIAMI BEACH — In an apparent attempt to show more shiny baubles than all of the art fairs combined, the Bass Museum of Art last week opened One Way: Peter Marino, a perversely perfect complement to its other major exhibition, GOLD.
Opinion
Georg Baselitz Is a Sexist Grump
Women, ladies, girls, however you identify — if you've got two X chromosomes, I'm talking to you, and I have an unfortunate announcement: You can't paint. At least not well. So if you're thinking about becoming a painter, don't do it; you'll never be any good. If you already are one, I'm sorry; you
Art
What You Might Be Missing at MoMA
You’d never find Pablo Picasso or Jackson Pollock relegated to the corridors of the Museum of Modern Art. Rarely do artists deemed essential to MoMA’s historical narrative rub elbows with the throngs swarming the escalators and passageways in endless transit from galleries to café to restroom and ba
Art
One Paints, the Other Doesn’t
In 1961, two scrappy young artists decided to stage their first show together. One of them was Georg Baselitz, who would later become a mainstay of Neo-Expressionism’s German flank; the other was Eugen Schönebeck, who would stop painting by the time he was thirty.