How the silo, a new gallery run by a writer and a painter, sees defending artists as a “practice of art criticism by other means”

For some time, husband and wife duo Raphael Rubinstein and Heather Bause Rubinstein— an art critic and an artist, respectively — are planning to open an art gallery. The plan was to launch the silo: living with the art gallery next year, in 2023, at the 19th-century farmhouse that Raphael bought some 20 years... Read More

At the Rose Art Museum, the rarely seen photographs of painter Barkley L. Hendricks are on display

For most of his career, Barkley L. Hendricks was famous for his striking paintings of people of color, inspired by the royal portraits of European court painters. Barkley L. Hendricks, “In the Crosshairs of the States”, 2016. (Courtesy of the Artist’s Estate and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York) Nobody knew much about his photographs.... Read More

The Greek painter who changed the art world

El Greco’s “Portrait of an Old Man”, believed to be a self-portrait, 1595. Credit: public domain The Greek painter El Greco is one of the best-known artists in the entire history of Western art, as his unique, romantic and awe-inspiring works have influenced a large number of painters over the past five centuries. Although... Read More

Google Doodle pays homage to avant-garde artist Katarzyna Kobro, whose groundbreaking abstract sculptures were destroyed by the Nazis

Today’s Google Doodle pays homage to Katarzyna Kobro, an avant-garde Polish sculptor and art theorist who was part of the constructivist art movement of the early 20th century. Born in Moscow on January 26, 1898, Kobro would be 124 years old today. She began studying at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture... Read More

Waco Painter Kermit Oliver Gets Appropriate Career Exposure at Hometown Art Center

Waco painter Kermit Oliver is no stranger. His deeply allegorical work was included in the inaugural exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in 2016. There was a retrospective at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston in 2005. And curator Dave Hickey selected it for SITE’s fourth Santa... Read More

Meet Rachel Jones, a rising painter whose electrically quivering paintings have captivated collectors around the world

Standing in front of a painting by Rachel Jones is like letting her take you on a journey through her emotional landscape, with her skillful use of color and composition as your guide. One of the artist’s centers of interest is black interiority, accessible somewhat literally through the frequent inclusion of the mouth and... Read More

Wayne Thiebaud, painter of lush colors and textures, has passed away

LOS ANGELES – Artist Wayne Thiebaud, whose colorful and luscious paintings of cakes and San Francisco cityscapes combined sensuality, nostalgia and a hint of melancholy, has passed away. He was 101 years old. His death was confirmed on Sunday in a statement by his Acquavella gallery. Thiebaud died at his Sacramento home over... Read More

Jasper Johns: The greatest living painter in the world? | Vermont Arts

One place was not enough. Jasper Johns needed two major American museums to host his 90th birthday retrospective (91st to be precise, delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic). “Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror” is currently split between the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of Modern Art in New York, each exhibiting 250 of his... Read More

Black avant-garde writer and columnist Greg Tate dead at 64 – ARTnews.com

Greg Tate, an incisive and influential critic and essayist who focused on issues related to music, art and other areas of culture, has died aged 64. Reports of his passing began circulating online early Tuesday, and his publisher Duke University Press confirmed the news. A cause of death was not immediately available. Tate made... Read More

Elijah Cummings’ portrait of the painter finds it a career change

A son from Baltimore painted another. When Representative Elijah E. Cummings passed away in October 2019 at the age of 68, he became the first African-American elected official to reside in the United States Capitol State, where he served for more than two decades in the Maryland 7th District House of Representatives. In... Read More

First full biography of Californian painter Sam Francis

By Paul Wilner Special to Examiner Gabrielle Selz honestly comes from her art world. Her father, Peter Selz, was the founding director of the Berkeley Art Museum and the former curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. She wrote about her childhood in the world... Read More

Writer Roxane Gay becomes President of the Board of Directors of Performance Space

In an unusual move, acclaimed writer Roxane Gay was appointed chairman of the board of directors of the New York-based alternative art center, Performance Space. Acclaimed writer Roxane Gay is a critically acclaimed writer who rose to fame in 2014 with Bad feminist. A collection of his essays, Bad feminist became a New... Read More

“Desperation Befell Me”: elusive painter Marlene Dumas on the struggle to paint through a year marred by tragedy

At first glance, 19th-century poet Charles Baudelaire and famous contemporary painter Marlene Dumas don’t seem to have much in common. But an unprecedented exhibition of Dumas’s work in Paris shows the fascinating overlaps between the two minds. Until January 30, 2022, the Musée d’Orsay is exhibiting 15 paintings by the famous artist inspired... Read More

Joan Mitchell, a brilliant painter and a contrarian at heart

SAN FRANCISCO – “Painting is like a kind of illness, I think.” That’s what Joan Mitchell says in a gravel voice in a film included in the major retrospective of her work currently at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). It might be, but after browsing 10 SFMOMA galleries and seeing... Read More

Painter Reginald O’Neal on the upcoming exhibition “They Dreamed of Us” at Spinello Projects

Hidden among lush greenery is a small iron gate on the corner of NW Seventh Avenue and 29th Terrace in Allapattah. Enter under the lion’s head and you find yourself inside Spinello Projects. Go up a flight of stairs and in the hallway to the left is the space occupied by Reginald O’Neal.... Read More

The Art Angle Podcast: Writer Roxane Gay on what art can teach us about trauma and healing

Welcome to Art Angle, an Artnet News podcast that explores where the art world meets the real world, telling every week’s greatest story on earth. Join us each week for an in-depth look at what matters most about museums, the art market and more with input from our own writers and editors as... Read More

Writer Hilton Als goes to great lengths as curator

Extract from “Untitled: Silueta Series” by Ana Mendieta (1978) Courtesy of Karma The Conservatives occupy a difficult position in terms of reputation. Their task of creating an artistic experience using the work of other people can make them sound like DJs in the art world. Yet even the most prominent conservatives are denied... Read More

Oliver Hirschbiegel’s “The Painter” Trailer Debuts

Berlin-based sales agency Picture Tree International has released the trailer for the docu-fiction “The Painter,” a collaboration between German director Oliver Hirschbiegel, best known for Oscar-nominated “Downfall,” and German artist Albert Oehlen. The work stars Ben Becker, whose credits include “Brother of Sleep” and “Comedian Harmonists”, and features the voice of Charlotte Rampling.... Read More

Art Review: Tony Moore’s Ceramic Sculptures at the Kleinert / James Art Center | Visual arts | Hudson Valley

Click to enlarge “Injustice Of Silence”, wood-fired ceramic, porcelain, glass, steel, 63 “x 25” x 25 “, 2017 Paddling is a term used by ceramic artists to refer to the gentle tapping and shaping of malleable clay shapes with flattened wooden tools. The six large ceramic sculptures by the Anglo-American artist Tony moore... Read More

Writer and poet wins Lifetime Achievement Award

MOUNT DESERT – The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation is dedicated to recognizing and rewarding writers who make art accessible to the general public. The directors of the Rabkin Foundation announced that the foundation has awarded a lifetime achievement award of $ 50,000 to poet and art critic Carl Little of Mount Desert.... Read More

Director Angel Kristi Williams and Co-Writer Felicia Pride Talk About ‘Really Love’

Blackfilm.com correspondent Ellen J. Wanjiru speaks with the director Angel Kristi Williams and co-author Felicia Pride on inspiration and their collaboration in ‘Really love‘. Watch the interview below! SYNOPSIS: Set against the backdrop of a gentrified Washington DC, Isaiah, an emerging black painter is about to burst or give up when he meets... Read More

Creator of gigantic portraits, painter Chuck Close, dies at 81: NPR

Chuck Close was known for his giant photorealistic portraits of friends and colleagues in the art world. Late in her life, Close was charged with sexual harassment. IN MARTINEZ, HTE: The art world mourns the loss of Chuck Close, who died yesterday of congestive heart failure in Oceanside, NY. He was 81 years... Read More

MSU Libraries Art Exhibition Honors Northern Mississippi Impressionist Painter Kate Freeman Clark

Contact: Sasha Steinberg “Mill Pond, Moors Mill,” an oil painting by Kate Freeman Clark from Holly Springs, is part of the “Outdoors” exhibit on display throughout October in the John Grisham Hall of the Mitchell Memorial Library in the State of Mississippi. (Photo submitted) STARKVILLE, Mississippi — A nationally recognized northern Mississippi painter’s... Read More

The art world remembers the late painter Hung Liu, who valued everyday immigrants in monumental portraits

On the eve of her first retrospective in a museum, Oakland painter Hung Liu, one of the first Chinese artists to have achieved success in the United States, died on Saturday August 7 of pancreatic cancer. She was 73 years old. During his career, Hung Liu created large-scale paintings and installations based on... Read More

How Brie Ruais uses her own body to shape her clay sculptures and the sounds of the desert that motivate her

For every work of art that Brie Ruais in fact, she starts from the weight of her body in the clay, giving a new meaning to the term “life-size” sculpture. The Brooklyn-based artist pushes, pulls, and scrapes clay against the floor or wall, using her body as the primary tool in her unusually... Read More

One of the books of the year

Book Title:The painter’s friend ISBN-13:978-1529030921 Author: Howard cunnell Editor: Picador Indicative price:£ 16.99 The first thing that strikes you with The Painter’s Friend is how exceptionally beautiful Howard Cunnell’s handwriting is at the sentence level, so much so that you consciously slow down while reading in an attempt to extend the experience. as... Read More

Chinese artist Yu Ji makes sculptures using rubble, flowing water and “wasted mud”. The best curators in the world are obsessed with her

There’s something about Yu Ji’s work – he can stop even the most seasoned and seen curator in his tracks. Today, the Shanghai-based artist continues his rapid rise to world art fame with a solo exhibition at the prestigious Chisenhale Gallery, his first institutional exhibition outside Asia. Chisenhale is known to propel emerging... Read More

Richard Nonas, whose hand-made sculptures helped define post-minimalism, has died at 85

Anthropologist turned post-minimalist sculptor Richard nonas died in New York on May 11. Nonas, 85, died suddenly but peacefully in his sleep, according to his New York gallery, Fergus McCaffrey. The artist’s death was first reported by ARTnews and Art Forum. Born in New York, Nonas was born in 1936 and studied literature... Read More

Bringing respect to the artisan artist: how a small museum does, page by page

Giving visibility to lesser-known artists is key to the mission of the Craft and Folk Art Museum, explains Executive Director Suzanne Isken, whose institution has an annual operating budget of around $ 730,000, or less. than what some Hollywood stars earn for a few days of work. This is why a $ 25,000... Read More