Decoding Images Stuart Hawkins
In "Decoding Images," we ask an artist to walk through a single work, describing the compositional elements, production, background, and the stories and histories that emerge. In this edition, Hawins …
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Fact Sheet Adolf Dietrich
Adolf Dietrich (1877–1957), one of the most reknowned Swiss artists of the 20th Century, focused his work on his own surroundings, rendering rural landscapes, portraits, animals, and still lives, with…
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Fact Sheet Hunter Cross
Transparency Now, Hunter Cross' debut New York solo show, was recently on view at the Abrons Art Center on the Lower East Side. It captured, the artist said, an aesthetic, "similar to what you might…
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Fact Sheet Jay DeFeo
Jay DeFeo (1929–1989) is best known for the her obsessively reworked, giant abstract painting, The Rose, which she completed between the years of 1958 and 1966 until it had to be removed from her…
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Fact Sheet R Crumb
Cartoon artist R Crumb (b. 1943, Philadelphia)is best known for his scatalogical ink drawings for mainstream magazines like Rolling Stone to accompany the work of Hunter S Thompson, and the seminal…
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Alex Hubbard on the Abstract Labor of Video
"Somebody had to do it" is the title of New York-based artist Alex Hubbard's debut exhibition—referring cleverly if deceptively to the artist's pursuit by a number of the city's galleries and the anon…
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Fact Sheet Laddie John Dill
The Tim Nye-curated "Primary Atmospheres" show at David Zwirner was something of a welcome resurrection for a group of California Minimalists known as "Light and Space" artists. So welcome, in fact, …
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Irving Penn Smaller Than Life
American artist Irving Penn (1917–2009) began his career working for Vogue as a fashion photographer, creating images with clean lines, crisp tones, and balanced compositions that garnered accolades…
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Alex Katz on Monographs
"Most art books are like novels," said artist Alex Katz at a recent discussion of the format that records and embellishes the careers of artists, and often sits unturned on coffee tables: "I only look…
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