“Did you know 121,000 people have seen a flying saucer?” Peter Saul asked curator Lolita Cros on Tuesday night at New York’s Hotel Americano. “How can you be sure that none of these people have seen one?” This comment drew laughs … Read More
Peter Saul’s chaotic paintings feature entangled figures rendered in toxic-looking shades of bubblegum pink, nuclear-waste green, and dandelion yellow. Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, and Josef Stalin are recurring characters in these violent works, and religious imagery and references to art … Read More
Price Check is a weekly column that looks into the price of works currently on view at commercial galleries. Have they sold? For how much? Are either or both of these answers shocking compared to the amount the works sold for at auction? … Read More
“A lot of these I haven’t seen since I sent them off!” the painter Peter Saul announced as he walked briskly around an exhibition of his work from the 1960s and early ‘70s at the Upper East Side’s Venus Over … Read More
Accessible and affordable, the ballpoint pen has become the medium of choice for artists to make obsessive abstractions, extreme drawings, and playful riffs on venerated ink traditions Read More
At Dallas Art Fair, Dealers Play Their Hand Deep in the Heart of Texas
Muses: Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan on Yayoi Kusama, Crime Fiction, and Vija Celmins
Bodies of Work: In Washington, Big-Ticket Blockbusters, a Bracing Permanent Collection Hang, Anne Truitt, and the Museum of the Bible