Versatile, sensuous, malleable, as basic as mud and as old as art itself, clay is increasingly emerging as a material of choice for a wide range of contemporary artists
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Artists are taking on themes of aging, transformation, and decay Read More
When the Ming succumbed to the Qing, many rebel scholar-artist-officials became landscape painters who forged new, singular styles Read More
Dorothea Rockburne at the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York Read More
“The ‘Tobacco Project’ began with an interest in the aroma of tobacco,” Chinese artist Xu Bing says over a dim-sum breakfast in New York. Likening it to something between sociology and art, he is referring to the third iteration of … Read More
Ellsworth Kelly’s sculpture, subject of a show at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, makes the complex simple and the simple complex Read More
Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty
By Phoebe Hoban
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Turning the tables on art-historical tradition, more women artists are depicting the naked male body. Read More