Author Archives: Hilarie M. Sheets
Uncovering Matisse
The first major survey of Matisse's output during World War I uses cutting-edge technology and old-fashioned connoisseurship to reveal his radical system of scraping, scratching, and repainting. Read More
Turning the Subject into the Artist
Oliver Herring is guided by social interaction—in communally made photosculptures, in giddy performances where volunteers take on bizarre tasks, and in videos featuring strangers who come by his Brooklyn studio. Read More
Waves of Light
From bulbs to neon and fluorescent tubing to LEDs and other electronic creations, artists are using light—as material and subject—to comment on everything from advertising to spirituality. Read More
Optical Delusions
In Tim Eitel’s monumental canvases, walls might be space, interiors could be exteriors, and the figures could be either real or imagined. Read More
Underrated/Overrated
Which artists have been overlooked? And which have we been looking at too much?. Read More
Cut It Out!
Kara Walker’s cutout silhouettes of antebellum racial stereotypes are lewd, provocative—and beautiful. Kara Walker’s cutout silhouettes of antebellum racial stereotypes are lewd, provocative—and beautiful Read More
The Mod Bod
Modified, magnified, dissected, and erected, the body takes on unexpected shapes when sculptors use it as a metaphor for emotions. Modified, magnified, dissected, and erected, the body takes on unexpected shapes when sculptors use it as a metaphor for emotions. Read More
Reinventing the Landscape
From the spiritual to the technological, the sublime to the revolutionary, today's landscape painters are transforming the genre. Read More
Baffled, Bewildered—and Smitten
How to learn to stop worrying and love the art you don't understand. Read More
When Bad Is Good
The ARTnews 200 Top Collectors
CHINA The Next Generation
A Terrible Beauty?
UPDATED: A Long Lost Leonardo