Oct 8, 2019 | Example, Exhibition |
Not all of the letters that Frida Kahlo wrote were fiery. When sent to lovers, they were saccharine. When mailed to gallerists or collectors, they were purely logistical. But one particular note, sent in 1948 to the president of Mexico, conveyed blazing outrage—and...
Oct 7, 2019 | Example, Exhibition |
This year marks the 95th birthday of the renowned figurative painter Philip Pearlstein. To celebrate the occasion, the Galerie Templon in Paris is holding an exhibition of the American artist’s work, on show until July 20. The 14 oil paintings that constitute the...
Oct 7, 2019 | Example, Exhibition |
Philip Guston made a rare auction appearance—and the top lot of the sale. Christie’s Kicks Off Frieze Week With a Bang With the $28 Million Sale of British Businessman Jeremy Lancaster’s Collection Christie’s kicked off a busy series of Frieze Week...
Oct 7, 2019 | Example, Exhibition |
For a long time, I understood art history entirely in relation to Belgian painter Rene Magritte. The Dadaists existed to lay the framework for Surrealism, the movement Magritte was a part of. Hieronymus Bosch was the early Netherlandish artist whose dreamlike figures...
Oct 7, 2019 | Example, Exhibition |
Svetlana Boym’s seminal cultural study, The Future of Nostalgia, identifies two distinct strains of erstwhile yearning in contemporary culture; the “restorative” kind, which places “emphasis on nostos (returning home) and proposes to rebuild,” and the “reflective”...
Oct 7, 2019 | Example, Exhibition |
Alissa McKendrick’s debut solo show, “Resentment,” featured five untitled paintings of varying sizes (all 2018 or 2019) depicting loosely sketched female figures against brushy fields of color. The spindly figures appear to hover atop these nearly monochrome...
