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Christie’s Latest Generative Art Auction Is a Gucci Collab
One can be forgiven for assuming a Gucci x Christie’s collaboration would feature leather, baubles, horse bits and coated canvas—particularly if one missed the headlines announcing the fashion house’s...
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The Invisible Art of the Humble Frame
Frames are ubiquitous to the point that they’re unassuming. Paintings become art when bound in gilded frames, but we appreciate the former and seldom acknowledge the latter. We also see frames in...
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One Fine Show: Paintings from Royal Udaipur at the Cleveland Museum of Art
How does one capture the spirit of a city? For New York, I like to think this is achieved by the photographs of Diane Arbus, or maybe by those of Lee Friedlander, like the ones framed so excellently by...
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Gallerist Jonathan Carver Moore Is Right Where He Wants to Be
When Jonathan Carver Moore opened his eponymous gallery in San Francisco’s Tenderloin at the end of March of this year, more than three hundred people showed up on the first night, lining up outside on...
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Five Things to Do in New York’s Art Scene July 24-28
Tuesday, July 25 Opening: Isaac Aden: The Numinous Sublime David Richard Gallery, 526 West 25th Street This show debuts big new paintings by Isaac Aden, the first of a two-part show that finishes in...
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See Roy Lichtenstein’s Sculpture as Remembered by Irving Blum
“I looked hard at those cartoons. They somehow seemed more finished than Andy’s paintings. But I remember distinctly making a connection, with the heavy black outline . . . I thought that there was...
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One Fine Show: ‘Mapping an Art World’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los...
The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles is an important institution. It has historically put on great and influential shows, like 1992’s “Helter Skelter”, and continues to do so today with...
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On View Now: Paul McCartney, Ilana Savdie, Brigid Berlin and More
While we’re entering a sleepy season for galleries at this point in the summer, museums across the globe are coming through with a little something for everyone. For the musically inclined, London’s...
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Seeing Between the Lines: Gego at the Guggenheim
Gego (the chosen name of artist Gertrud Goldschmidt) didn’t consider herself a sculptor, at least not in the traditional sense. “Sculpture: three-dimensional forms in solid material,” she once wrote in...
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A Perfect Storm of Art and Experimentation Descends on the Watermill Center
There’s nothing more terrifying for outdoor event planners than rain, the ultimate harbinger of open-air-gala gloom. This past weekend, renowned interdisciplinary arts laboratory The Watermill Center...
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Recent Art Moves in Chelsea Show the Neighborhood Is Alive and Well
For a few years now, trend pieces have pointed to the number of galleries moving to Tribeca as a sign that the boom years for Chelsea’s gallery district are over. “The Galleries That Transformed...
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On View Now: ‘Africa Fashion’ at the Brooklyn Museum
Ambitious in scope but limited in timeframe, Africa Fashion debuted as a 2022 exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. Its present incarnation in Brooklyn, organized by Ernestine White-Mifetu...
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Suchitra Mattai Envisions a Future of Brown Reclamation
In material and form, artist Suchitra Mattai monumentalizes matriarchs across her expansive body of work. Crafts learned from her grandmothers’ embolden her artistic practice. “It becomes a way of...
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One Fine Show: ‘A Very Strong Likeness of Her’ at the Milwaukee Art Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s show on Van Gogh’s paintings of cypresses was, for me, a huge success because it made me feel insane. The show takes you through his early efforts to draw the beguiling...
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The Penetrating Intensity of Susan Rothenberg
What’s one to make of the early Susan Rothenberg paintings? Take Trumpeter from 1984-85, now on exhibit at Vermont’s Hall Art Foundation, founded in 2007 by Andrew and Christine Hall. This and other...
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Chiao-Han Chueh Challenges Stereotypes Amid #MeToo in ‘Intimate Play’
When Taiwanese artist Chiao-Han Chueh first presented her artwork to her college professor, she was met with an outburst of criticism. The middle-aged man shouted, “Why do all the women in your artwork...
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Frida and Diego Come Together at the Art Gallery of South Australia
The loud cobalt color of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s famous home, “The Blue House,” belies the true tenor of the legendary marriage under its roof. Known as “La Casa Azul,” the garish home in Mexico...
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Princeton’s Art on Hulfish Offers a Model for Museums Mid-Renovation
How can museums remain on the cultural map when renovations require their doors be closed to the public? As more and more institutions include expansion and modernization in their post-Covid-19...
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Crypto Mundi: Why Is a Controversial da Vinci Painting an NFT Darling?
Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi is in the news… again. The now-iconic painting has made headlines on and off following its 2005 sale at the St. Charles Gallery auction house in New Orleans (purchase price:...
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Don’t Miss: Banksy and More at ‘Mutiny in Colour’
If you want to see some Banksy pieces before summer’s end, you can reserve tickets to Cut & Run in Glasgow (the first official Banksy show in 14 years), wait for the delayed unofficial Banksy show...
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