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.
Painting
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?”
Art
Caravaggio and Bernini, Together at Last
We could call this exhibition a battle of the swaggerers.
Art
Male Nudes, Exposed and Examined
In unabashedly sexual, but not necessarily erotic paintings and drawings, the artist Aaron Skolnick focuses on men — naked and intimate.
Art
The Idiosyncratic Paintings of Maud Lewis, a Beloved Canadian Folk Artist
Lewis may have operated on, or even outside of, the fringes of the art world, but the McMichael Canadian Art Collection believes she deserves a place within its halls.
Art
The Hissing Heat of Elizabeth Hazan's Paintings
Hazan’s exhibition sounds a low-volume alarm at the increasingly severe effects of climate change while prompting us to consider the artist’s reconstructed experiences of atmosphere, weather, and geography.
Books
Recreating Artemisia Gentileschi's Life in Graphic Form
I Know What I Am: The Life and Times of Artemisia Gentileschi weaves together known facts of Gentileschi’s life with the politics of art patronage.
Interview
Challenging Stereotypes by Contorting the Female Form
Hayv Kahraman’s paintings compel viewers to acknowledge the potential pleasure of viewing contorted bodies in a position of pain.
Art
Rubens’s Exciting, Upsetting, and Shockingly Current Paintings
Much of Rubens’s Baroque bravura feels timely in its grappling with violence, terror, power, sex, and coercion.
Art
Tackling Gentrification and Other Injustices Through Landscape Painting
Eddie Arroyo decidedly updates the genre of American landscape painting, recording real-estate developments and gentrification and capturing the flux of contemporary urban landscapes.