Paintings by Miro Frei
By Stephen Glass
In his recent exhibition at Artifact a Swiss artist Miro Frei displayed work which is both delicate and bold. His medium-size oil, pastel and acrylic paintings on paper and canvas not only rec...
Peter Paul Rubens: Baroque painter and diplomat on show in Frankfurt
DW - An exhibition in Frankfurt's Städel museum explores the work of the Flemish painter, as well the precursors and contemporaries who influenced him. Rubens dominated the 17th-century art world like perhaps n...
7 Photographers Who Captured the Agony and Ecstasy of Young Love
Artsy - It is nearly impossible to forget your first romance—from the feeling of falling head over heels for the very first time, to the crushing heartbreak that almost always ensues. The subject has long been ...
New York welcomes Tarsila—the high priestess of Brazil’s Modernist cannibals
The Art Newspaper - The Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Tarsila do Amaral: Inventing Modern Art in Brazil aims to reintroduce Tarsila—as the artist was commonly known—to audiences outside her native country. ...
Circling Back to Kenneth Noland
Hyperallergic - Kenneth Noland, like his fellow first-tier, Color field painter, Helen Frankenthaler, is enjoying a strong revival of interest. These artists’ alliance with the powerful and polarizing formalist...
Why Jasper Johns Is an Icon of 20th-Century Painting
Artsy - This past fall, the 87-year-old American artist Jasper Johns revealed plans to turn his 170-acre retreat in rural Sharon, Connecticut, into an artists’ residence upon his death. Recognized as one of Am...
FAREWELL OUR GLOBALISM
Art in America - First the good news. “Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World,” now appearing at the Guggenheim Museum in New York through January 7, samples China’s most fertile and challenging post-Ma...
Hito Steyerl Is an Artist With Power: She Uses It for Change
NY Times - BERLIN — Blurry selfies, pixelated screen shots, Photoshop disasters: Low-quality, mass-reproduced pictures flood our screens every day. They are easy to dismiss, but the German artist Hito Steyerl m...
Megan Vun Wong: Vicissitude
Viewing Megan Vun Wong's work in order to identify its various notations and marks, an attempt to "read" it for it's near associational messages might be time well spent for some people. And yet it would be far...
An Iraqi Artist Bears Witness to the Trauma of Displacement
Hyperallergic - A mahaffa, I learn, is a handheld fan made by weaving the fronds of palm trees, a ubiquitous household item that is emblematic of Iraq and the Gulf region. It is also one of the few belongings t...