Matthew Barney, Sanguine Atlas, 2024. Photo David Regen/Courtesy the Artist, Gladstone Gallery, Sadie Coles HQ, Regen Projects, and Galerie Max Hetzler Making his way through his new studio a few weeks back, Matthew Barney stopped to inspect a strange set of alchemical dumbbells and tried to describe the elements of stress, vulnerability, and frailty he …
Rachel Martin at the Gochman Family Collection, where she is artist-in-residence and co-curator. Weston Wells for ARTnews In one of artist Rachel Martin’s earliest memories, her mother had asked her to draw the face of a bug. “I was about three years old, and I remember her saying to me, ‘Show me how it feels …
Daniela Hritcu for ARTnews/Getty Images In 1924, amid the wreckage of the Great War, French poet André Breton railed against the values of the world as it was and could never again be, one ruled by realism and rationality. “The mere word ‘freedom’ is the only one that still excites me,” Breton wrote in his …
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Visitors at the Camille Claudel exhibition at the Getty Center. Cassia Davis/Courtesy of the J. Paul Getty Trust To look upon Camille Claudel’s Torso of a Crouching Woman is to be shocked by it. Though the figure lacks a head, arms, and left knee, she is stolidly centered. The burnished bronze figure writhes, pulling the skin …
Frank Stella, 2001. The Washington Post via Getty Images Was Frank Stella a sadist? More than once, I’ve wondered that while standing before his 1959 painting Die Fahne hoch!, a rectangular abstraction that features four black forms, each of which are demarcated by unpainted lines of white that pulsate toward the center. The painting, for …
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In their research, curators including art historian Marianne Mathieu also came across evidence contradicting the belief that all Impressionist painting was executed swiftly.
In her multifaceted practice, she was prescient in subtly addressing social and political issues, such as the immigrant experience, the environment, Native American rights, and social injustice…
Some of the fair’s strongest presentations came from galleries hailing from Nigeria and South Africa.
The museum receives about seven million visitors each year, making it one of the most popular art destinations in the world.
We examine 14 key artworks that reflect the diverse facets of Cassatt’s career, as well as the privileges and constraints of female artists in a male-dominated 19th-century art world.
