Spotlight

Hyperallergic - At the age of 84 and in declining health, Nahui Olin asked to be taken to the grand mansion in Tacubaya where she spent her early childhood. Fiercely independent, Nahui had spent the past three ...

Hyperallergic -Pioneer Works, an experimental playground at the reaches of Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood, is perhaps the perfect site for photographer Matthew Morrocco’s playfully heady, avant-garde project ...

Artsy - The figure of the bather is one of the most common visual tropes in Western art history. From ancient Athens to 1920s Paris and beyond, painters and sculptors have presented bathing in a variety of ways...

Hyperallergic - The scholar Sara Ahmed opens her essay “A phenomenology of whiteness” with a series of questions on the project of examining whiteness: “If whiteness gains currency by being unnoticed, then what...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...