Tag Archives: Lilly Wei

In Joan Semmel’s Crossed Legs, 2011, the sexuality is more restrained than in her earlier work.
Trends

The Body In Winter

By Posted 05/31/12

Artists are taking on themes of aging, transformation, and decay Read More

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Looking at Art

Turning Over a New Leaf

By Posted 12/01/11

When the Ming succumbed to the Qing, many rebel scholar-artist-officials became landscape painters who forged new, singular styles Read More

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Reviews

Geometry of Stardust

By Posted 09/22/11

Dorothea Rockburne at the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York Read More

Xu Bing printing on whole tobacco leaves. Credit: COURTESY DUKE UNIVERSITY, DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
News

Puff Piece

By Posted 09/15/11

“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

The fan-shaped birchwood "radius" work Curve XXI, 1978-80, appears to hover midair.
Looking at Art

Ahead of the Curve

By Posted 09/13/11

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 in a photograph taken by her lover Sam Brody, whom she met at a WPA meeting. SAM BRODY
Books

What Was Neel’s Deal?

By Posted 02/01/11

Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty
By Phoebe Hoban
St. Martin’s Press, 500 pages, $35 Read More

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Trends

The Great American (Male) Nude

By Posted 12/01/10

Turning the tables on art-historical tradition, more women artists are depicting the naked male body. Read More