Features Tweet Julian Schnabel: Painter, Director, and Ensemblist A case could be made that Julian Schnabel is the most American of painters, New York Jewish, born and bred in Brownsvillle, Texas, where he discovered Mexican culture and Catholic iconography. Though April 18, 2018
Features Tweet Rebecca Louise Law: Painting on Air Standing amid a suspended cloud of thousands of flowers cascading from the ceiling, I realized that an installation by Rebecca Louise Law can be appreciated with eyes closed as well as open; physical April 02, 2018
Features Tweet A History of JAZ: Franco "JAZ" Fasoli Trying to define jazz is fraught and elusive, and so is any attempt to pigeonhole the multimedia artist known as Jaz. Born Franco Fasoli in Buenos Aires, the painter-sculptor-collagist, bred in the t March 19, 2018
Features Tweet Spring 2018 Cover Story: Inès Longevial's Life in the Balance While wandering around in your favorite museum, there are many ways a work of art may move you emotionally. Stunning ancient sculptures evoke wonder about how the artist achieved such perfection minu March 01, 2018
Features Tweet Kip Omolade: Heavy Metal Deity I haven’t yet had the pleasure of meeting Kip Omolade face-to-face, but I have certainly pondered the faces he has made. I have always been mesmerized by reflective surfaces and fully understand th February 12, 2018
Features Tweet Smithe: Learning and Loving Life At one point during my conversation with Smithe, he insisted that he doesn’t like to give advice because he isn’t good at it, only to follow the declaration with some good, practical counsel of h January 29, 2018
Features Tweet Daniel Rich: This is Then and This is Now The city is a living, breathing entity, and from above, the perspective that Daniel Rich approaches in his image-making creates fluid interpretations of the landscape. Am I looking at New York City? January 16, 2018
Features Tweet Luke Pelletier: The Idea Man Nostalgia for youth is a potent force, a pure vision of what life could be if only we could return to that place. It disregards harsh realities, while embracing the joy, romanticizing the pain. It tu January 03, 2018
Features Tweet Anja Salonen: The Indolent Gaze Figurative painting has long been a compulsion of artists, and only the remarkable make headway in the game. Anja Salonen is deep into the uncanny, concocting color and mood to present an alternate r December 18, 2017
Features Tweet Kerry James Marshall: The Key Figure In 2016, the Kerry James Marshall retrospective, Mastry, traveled from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (MCA) to the Met Breuer. Standing behind the clear plexiglass podium, about to address November 30, 2017
Features Tweet Jules De Balincourt: Searching the Wave of Possibility There’s the depth and scope, the sensational fields of vision in the paintings of Jules de Balincourt. As if in perennial perch just above the action, or off to the side observing the group, de Bal October 31, 2017
Features Tweet Beyond the Cover: Toyin Ojih Odutola Toyin Ojih Odutola was born in Nigeria, grew up in Alabama, went to art school in San Francisco, and now lives in New York. Her geographical, literary and creative influences stretch across multiple September 28, 2017
