Spotlight: Joseph Balletta
“I am trying to bring some magic into a very static world…”
Paul Zimmerman in conversation with Joseph Balletta
Paul Zimmernan: How did you get interested in art?
Joseph Balletta: I believe I h...
Internal Worlds in the Paintings of Elena Dobrovolskaya
by Christopher Bruni
Elena Dobrovolskaya’s gentle figurative paintings, currently exhibited at Artifact, have a sense of elegance and grace. Paint applied harmoniously coalesces to form remarkably organic and ...
Cindy Sherman Signs With Hauser and Wirth as Her Longtime Gallery Metro Pictures Announces Its Closure
artnet news - Shortly after legendary dealership Metro Pictures announced plans to close after 40 years, Hauser & Wirth confirmed it has signed the gallery’s biggest star, Cindy Sherman. The groundbreaking ...
Banksy Scaled the Prison That Once Jailed Oscar Wilde to Paint His Latest Mural
hyperallergic - Blockbuster street artist Banksy has laid claim to his latest work of public art — an olde tyme prison escape stenciled on the wall of the defunct HM Reading Prison in Reading, Berkshire, Englan...
The Great Beginning of Jules Olitski
NY Times - In the early 1960s, Jules Olitski (1922-2007) made some of the most astounding abstract paintings of the 20th century. Many of them still astound — even if the avuncular sexual innuendos and women’s ...
Noguchi sculpture becomes White House’s first artwork by an Asian American
CNN - A sculpture by Isamu Noguchi has become the first work by an Asian American to feature in the White House's art collection, according to the White House Historical Association.The piece, titled "Floor Fra...
Banksy’s Rapidly Rising Market, Explained
Artsy - Banksy has closely guarded his identity for decades, and he’s also long played a uniquely active role in shaping the way his work is presented and sold. - read more ...
Deborah Roberts’s Gripping Collages Reconfigure Black Girlhood
artsy - Deborah Roberts wasn’t born a triplet, but she often felt like it growing up. Two of her sisters and herself were all born within two years of each other. - read more ...
In His Own Words: Jacob Lawrence at the Met and MoMA
NY Times - Shuttered since March by the coronavirus pandemic, the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art are reopening with limited visitorship, various admonitions about masks and social dist...
At 85, Hsiao Chin Continues to Challenge the Eurocentric Legacy of Abstract Art
artsy - In the midst of the Cold War, Shanghai-born artist Hsiao Chin (萧勤) moved from Taipei to Madrid, spending his twenties exhibiting across Europe and expanding Western conceptions of Chinese art. Hsiao pus...