Joaquín Torres-García, mapped and remapped
The Art Newspaper - Acquavella Galleries’ exhibition of the Uruguay-born Modernist is a primer for the uninitiated and a treasury of rarely seen gems.
Two comments stand out in the Modernist artist Joaquín Tor...
Figurative Abstraction of Heidi Fosli
By Dan Aldo
The overriding subject of the work by Heidi Fosli exhibited at Artifact is a human condition within Nature. It is seen as the manifestation of a unifying spirit that precedes and often precludes th...
Multi-billion-dollar Picasso show heads to the Beyeler
The Art Newspaper -Works by Picasso worth several billion dollars will head to Basel’s Fondation Beyeler on loan next year for the first exhibition in Europe dedicated to the artist’s Blue and Rose Periods, dat...
Oppositions in the Work of Albert Lichten
By Stephen Glass
The overriding quotient of vitality in the paintings by Albert Lichten stems from authoritative capacity to infuse each painterly effort with a breakdown of figure-ground relationships. There ...
The Stories behind 7 Objects That Made up Frida Kahlo’s Iconic Look
Artsy - Frida Kahlo’s face has been printed onto everything from tequila bottles to throw pillows, but how did she groom those famous eyebrows? What brand of lipstick did she use? Where did her clothes and jewe...
LA Artists Take Us from the Colonial Past to the Interstellar Future
Hyperallergic - In 1926, oil heiress Aline Barnsdall donated several acres of her Olive Hill estate to the city of Los Angeles. The hilltop estate of olive and citrus trees overlooking Hollywood Boulevard would...
Egon Schiele’s God of Desire
Hyperallergic — In the first room of what is billed as Egon Schiele: The Jubilee Show at the Leopold Museum, there is a large painting called “The Hermits” (1912), in which two life-size, dark-robed men, one u...
Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys Launch New Art Grant, Giving 20 Artists $5,000 Each
Hyperallergic - The producer, rapper, and art collector Swizz Beatz is giving out $100,000 in art grants. The new initiative, under the auspices of the Dean Collection — the contemporary art collection he and h...
Will We Stop Talking and Just Text?
BBC - Say this out loud: zomg wtfffffff im going 2 pwn you!!!!1111 lololol
Well, OK, you can’t. And yet, in its loosely structured live interactivity, internet slang like that is closer to speech than text. ...