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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.
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A Surreal Portrait of Solitude and Isolation During 2020
Running like a red thread through Marcel Alcalá’s paintings and ceramics is a quiet foreboding, winding along the ocean floor of the subconscious.
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Uncanny Paintings Tell a Story of This Year’s Unease
Lauren Satlowski’s paintings reflect the angst and solitude of the present moment, while thankfully leaving out any mention of face masks.
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Archaeologists Discover Eight Miles of Prehistoric Rock Art, “the Sistine Chapel of the Ancients”
Tens of thousands of paintings of animals and humans, made up to 12,600 years ago, were found along the Guayabero River in the Colombian Amazon.
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Eric Fischl’s Privileged Bubble
Fischl finds a visual bond between the seclusion of the affluent white world and the pandemic’s enforced isolation.
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Howard Hodgkin Gushes Forth
Howard Hodgkin: Memories — the first show of any importance since the artist’s death — seems to open him up as never before.
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Cézanne’s Hard Truths
For Cézanne, stone represented structure incarnate.
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A Painter’s Sincere Affection for the Heart Ideogram
Linda Stark lends serious attention to the heart symbol, which, like most symbols associated with women and femininity, is easily dismissed and oft-overlooked.
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A Painter’s Belief in Painting
Michael Berryhill sees painting as an “amazing place” where the miraculous can still occur.
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Cecily Brown Crashes the House of Churchill
What will she make of the fabled greatness of the English past?