Alexandria Smith’s surreal mixed-media paintings are neither landscapes nor portraiture in her functions, which she constructs with painted wooden, the regulations of composition are unbound by physics—it is the things of dreams. The Bronx-born artist, who is primarily based concerning New York and London, where by she is head of […]
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Following fading into obscurity, the late artist Francis Hines is gaining new awareness immediately after a automobile mechanic rescued hundreds of his paintings from a dumpster in Connecticut. Hines, an summary expressionist, garnered some recognition in 1980 by employing fabric to wrap the arch in New York City’s Washington Square […]
Illustration: Mona Shafer Edwards Two important movie star courtroom sagas are playing out in the information at the minute, but for those of us who aren’t following from the jury booth, obtain to the proceedings couldn’t be more distinct. Johnny Depp’s defamation fit towards his ex-spouse Amber Listened to, who […]
Created by Jacqui Palumbo, CNN On an early morning in 2008, in advance of the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened for the day, the artist Yuki Kihara sat down throughout from two paintings by the French artist Paul Gauguin and inspected them in the hushed, empty gallery. The Japanese and […]
Being included in the Venice Biennale is a very big deal. For emerging artists, it can be a career-defining moment. Even established ones can add another notch to their belt. And for the galleries that represent them, it may very well mean improved business prospects. While dealers generally deny that […]
Who gets to decide what goes on the walls of our museums? That quiet but revolutionary question has nagged at Sonia Boyce ever since she first visited London galleries in her teens. Her 40-year inquiry into it, as an artist and academic, culminated in outraged tabloid headlines in 2018 when, […]