Lover, murderer, artist — the Italian may have been cancelled had he lived today, and yet there’s so much more to the painter. A fan goes behind his work and his notoriety.
A visitor enters the new ground floor of the Modern, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and after handbag check is again briefly stalled by the guards.
So arch, so witty, so guided by ideas is Alexis Ralaivao’s show that it might be construed as a revival of the anti-realist Mannerism of Pontormo or Rosso Fiorentino.
When Robert Mangold began showing his work in the mid-sixties, Frank Stella and Ellsworth Kelly occupied opposite poles on the abstract shaped-canvas spectrum.
This survey, organized by the Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden with the artist’s foundation in Suffern, New York, explores all facets of a sorely underappreciated painter, sculptor, and photographer.
One of Francis Picabia’s first art crimes was to produce Impressionist paintings that were based on photographs—and make money doing it—a perfect start to the scattershot anti-retinal agenda that Dada would exploit and his compatriot Marcel Duchamp would elevate to doctrine.
Robert Janitz makes the type of paintings that stimulate a yearning to look deeply and longer. Working with recognizable image models, he establishes signature abstract icons that offer nuanced reading.
Jenna Gribbon’s production is established and consistent enough that one doesn’t need first hand experience of her work to know what to expect from her new show.
Quilting has served as a vehicle of queer expression and activism for decades. Just this past May 17th, the American Civil Liberties Union displayed 258 square quilts--9,000-square-feet overall--on the National Mall in Washington, DC.