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...
When Duchamp Agreed to Forge One of His Most Famous Works
Artsy - Guests at the recurring Dada salon of the modern art collectors Louise and Walter Arensberg might have found themselves doing a double-take as they ambled through the couple’s Manhattan apartment on We...
7 Chapels Designed by Artists Including James Turrell, Louise Nevelson, and Mark Rothko
Architectural Digest - "Most major artist-designed chapels are late-career works," says Dr. Aaron Rosen, expert on art and religion and curator of Stations of the Cross NYC. "There's a twofold explanation: Ofte...
The Many Shades and Meanings of the Color Blue
Hyperallergic — There is something visually seductive about an exhibition structured around color. The initial impression of a room immersed in a single hue is, at the very least, striking; even colors that mig...
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...