Style
The Verve and Confrontation of Lisa Yuskavage’s Naked Ladies
The history of art is littered with naked ladies, of course, from Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus” to Ingres’s “Grande Odalisque” to…
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Beauty
In Elisheva Biernoff’s Paintings, a Picture’s Worth Two Thousand Hours
If, as the saying goes, patience is a virtue, the artist Elisheva Biernoff must be as virtuous as they come. Her painting technique…
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It Takes Only Five Paintings to See Helen Frankenthaler’s Genius
In a small show at MOMA, Frankenthaler seems to make paint its own living force, untouched by an artist. Source link
Beauty
The Quiet Exuberance of Agnes Martin’s ‘Innocent Love’ Paintings
It seems overly simplistic, saccharine even, to describe Agnes Martin’s paintings as pure, but I just can’t find a way around it. Using…
Beauty
In Newport, a Suite of New Paintings by Cy Gavin Consider the Sea–and the Stars
He would go about this in a few different ways. For one thing, Gavin used real yacht sails—two mainsails, one jib—as his canvases,…
Style
Beauford Delaney’s Light and Faith
Delaney’s style or, more accurately, styles, developed in the course of a long apprenticeship that can read like a novelization of the…
Style
The Mesmerizing, Hard-Edge Paintings of Fanny Sanín
Also: Staffers’ favorite Brad Pitt movies, Carnegie Hall performances in the parks, the stargazing rap of Ab-Soul, and more. Source link
World
A Forgotten Surrealist’s Paintings Return to New York
When Ford returned to his gallery, he entered Orlik’s name into Artnet, the art-price database. His search yielded barely any results.…
