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Why Are Giorgione’s Paintings So Mysterious, Even Centuries Later?
We know precious little about the painter’s life, and we know even less about his work’s meaning. A new book argues that the artist wanted it that way.
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Devendra Banhart Exchanges Breath and Rhythm for Pencil and Ink
Banhart’s first solo show in Los Angeles is at turns intimate and grandiose.
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Clarence Holbrook Carter, an American Surrealist Who Painted Life, Death, and Rebirth
Carter’s paintings gesture toward unknown realms, whether death or nonhuman consciousness.
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Stephen Pusey’s Remarkable Calligraphic Abstractions
Pusey’s cursive marks sit in that zone where writing becomes drawing and vice versa.
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John Mendelsohn’s Paintings of Radiating and Falling Light
The change in hue and density from painting to painting struck me as simultaneously methodical and intuitive.
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Art Heals: After a Sexual Assault, an Artist Paints Women Who Can’t Be Knocked Down
It took me years to find the language to tell this story.
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Painting a Portrait Is “Like Falling in Love,” Says Jiab Prachakul
Prachakul paints friends and acquaintances who, like the artist, are part of the Asian diaspora.
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The Independent Spirit of Herbert Gentry
Gentry was one of a number of Black artists who had to navigate the art world’s demand to emphasize their racial identity in the “right” way.
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Esther Pearl Watson Channels Strange Pandemic Life in 100 Paintings
The artist describes each small painting, created in the style of the ex-voto, as a sign of resilience.
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Melancholy in Black and Neon
Mary Weatherford’s new paintings confront us with a sense of place, a remembered moment, a hidden story.
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Judit Reigl’s Corporeal Presence
Legend has it that no one took notice of Jackson Pollock’s first exhibitions in Paris, but an anonymous Hungarian immigrant named Judit Reigl did.