Tuymans is a figurative painter who doubts whether visual representations can ever be truthful.
Luc Tuymans
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A Mega-Gallery Marks a Quarter Century
I remember David Zwirner Gallery back in the 1990s, before Chelsea, when the New York art world was much smaller and more manageable.
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Tripping Through James Ensor’s Macabre Painted World with Luc Tuymans
Tuymans steps up to the bar, and this feels like a kaleidoscopic tour of Ensor’s clearly voraciously imaginative brain.
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At the Montreal Biennial, Lessons in How to Look
Across the city, many works by the 55 artists participating in the 2016 Biennale de Montréal deal with the possibilities, limitations, and consequences of spectacle and spectatorship.
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The Met Breuer Traces the Unfinished to the Deliberately Incomplete in Western Art
At a press preview earlier this month, Sheena Wagstaff, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s chairwoman for modern and contemporary art, said that “arguably only the Met” could put on a show like Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible.
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Luc Tuymans Case Illustrates the Failure of Europe’s Copyright Laws
LONDON — Belgian artist Luc Tuymans, known for his paintings that rework existing photographic source material, has been found guilty of plagiarism in a European court for using a copyrighted photograph as the inspiration for an artwork.
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Luc Tuymans Found Guilty of Plagiarism for Painting Photo of Politician
The painter Luc Tuymans has been convicted of plagiarism over a portrait of the Belgian politician Jean-Marie Dedecker.
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Three Different Styles of the Artist Monograph
Sometimes a gallery’s books are more interesting than the artwork they regularly exhibit, and you can peruse their best artists and exhibitions from the confines of a well-constructed catalogue.