Art
Finding Crystalline Clarity in the Seemingly Chaotic
The technical mastery of Annie Lapin's paintings is like that of a juggler who can simultaneously toss balls, bowling pins, flaming torches, and a chainsaw.
Painting
Art
El Greco, Modernist Hero
Set the works of El Greco alongside those of Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, or Pablo Picasso, and you can see why they admired and copied him.
Art
Paintings by the Famous, the Forgotten, and the Emerging
Two exhibitions explore the work of three painters in a chain of influence: Alan Davie, David Hockney, and Christina Quarles.
Art
A Truly Rebellious Artist
Is Joanne Greenbaum making fun of collectors’ tastes, or is she enlarging the definition of art? The fact that you cannot tell is what is so great about her work.
Art
Unconstrained Paintings of Terror and Love
Joe Coleman is a hyper-realist who crams every picture with data, producing an image of all-over intensity that is at once a scrumptious meal and hard to stomach.
Art
Painting Home, When It Won't Let You Stay
In her first major solo show in London, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami’s paintings recall the all too familiar diasporic experience of being foreign in both places you call home.
Art
Brice Marden’s Latest Breakthrough
These are the paintings of a modern master for whom dissipation and loss of control have become integrated into the work.
Art
Life-and-Death Paintings, From a Career Cut Short
“I’m strongly drawn to saintly artists. I mean people who believe that each brushstroke will save the world or will represent the suffering of humanity in the face of a sheep.”
Books
A Multi-faceted Look at Francis Bacon’s Psychology
The five essays in Bacon and the Mind: Art, Neuroscience and Psychology call us to grapple with an artist whose life and work were anything but simple.
Art
James Tissot’s Weirdly Sexy, Astonishingly Cinematic, and Spiritual Paintings
The show is essentially a love story, arranged both chronologically and thematically, and unfolds almost like a serial novel. A precursor to Proust, say, in paint.
Art
When a Survey Show of Contemporary German Painting ... Isn't One
The curators of Now! Young Painting in Germany have to ask themselves how a survey of German contemporary painting justifies a disproportionate representation of certain art academies.
Interview
Beer With a Painter: Brenda Goodman
“The thing that’s fascinating me now more than anything, is when a painting is right. What makes a painting right?”