Spotlight

artsy - You can count all the hands and feet in  Christina Quarles’s paintings of harlequin figures, but follow the arc of each long limb, and all sense of exactness dissolves.  - read more...

artsy - Lately I’ve been having a hard time looking at photographs. But as a writer who often covers photography, it is nearly impossible for me to take a break from them. - read more ...

Artnet - At this year’s Armory Show, New York’s Hollis Taggart gallery is making a compelling case for artist Michael West (1908–1991), showing her works alongside those by four of her celebrated peers: Arshile...

artsy - It’s an oddity of our times that Agnes Pelton  is having a moment. An early 20th-century painter who lived much of her life just outside Palm Springs, Pelton was removed from the major art movements and...

Hyperallergic- Thaddeus Mosley is finally getting the attention he has been long due. A self-taught sculptor, at 94 he is still chiseling large, freestanding works composed of multiple pieces of salvaged wood t...

artsy - Of all the 20th-century artists who exerted control over their own markets,  Clyfford Still was arguably the most forceful. In 1951, the  Abstract Expressioniststopped working with galleries and became ...