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.
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.
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield From a goat sculpture to a giant bronze ampersand, via a filmed argument about sardines between two Kentridges, there is no rest for this dazzling artist’s imagination.
In the winter of 1991–92, John Berger found himself wondering why the poster image for the Géricault exhibition then at the Grand Palais was not of one of the artist’s better-known paintings – The Raft of the Medusa or The Wounded Cuirassier.
In her exhibition ‘The Highest Point of an Empty Temple’, Polina Shcherbyna looks through disappointments, and horrors of the XXI century, refers to the cycle of tragedy and hope that repeats itself over the whole human history.
Niklas Asker (b. 1979, Nordingrå, Sweden) thinks of his paintings in three-dimensional terms, as objects which exist beyond the boundaries of the canvas; those imbued with weight, or mass.
I remember drawing a big middle finger on the back of my t-shirt in primary school. I wanted my clothes to match the intensity of Mimmo Haraditiohadi’s wardrobe.
Paula D. Lucas is a figurative artist whose work invites stillness. Her paintings do not shout. They rest. They wait. And then they open something deeper.
Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Salvator Mundi,’ a masterpiece that has captivated the art world for centuries, took a remarkable journey from obscurity to the limelight in the mid-2000s.
The Paths to Modernity: Masterpieces from the Musee d'Orsay, Paris exhibition in Shanghai is so popular that "even Van Gogh cannot squeeze into his own bedroom in Arles", according to visitors to the Museum of Art Pudong in Shanghai.