Muse: Pentimenti
An émigré to New York, Russian-born painter Sanya Kantarovsky argues for the fluid openness to pictorial change that he perceives in the half-obscured surface traces left by such masters as Leonardo…
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Works From the Late Olga Hirshhorn’s Collection Will Go to Artis—Naples, Cultural Organization in Naples, Florida
The estate of art collector Olga Hirshhorn (the widow of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, who founded the eponymous museum in Washington, D.C.) announced today that it…
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‘Some People Think What I’ve Done Is Almost Sacrilege’: A Talk with Jeff Koons
Bill Powers: How do you see the “Gazing Ball” paintings as being on a continuum with the “Gazing Ball” sculptures? Jeff Koons: With the sculpture, you feel a constant polarity between…
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Inequality Endures: The Price of Being a Female Artist in 2015
An annual overview of how female artists and their work fared over the past year in the marketplace and the broader art world. Here is the 2014 edition. “Is the Pope Catholic?” Marilyn…
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Morning Links: Stabbing at Art Basel Edition
A stabbing occurred at Art Basel Miami Beach on Friday night. At 5:15 p.m., a woman stabbed another visitor to the fair with an X-Acto knife, saying, “I had to kill her and two more!”…
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“Picasso Sculpture”
What was sculpture to the protean Picasso? As the current survey at the Museum of Modern Art makes clear, it was a markedly “episodic” pursuit, which resulted in over 600 sculptures and hundreds of ce…
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Shakespearean Fish
The retrospective of the endlessly inventive 79-year-old artist Frank Stella opens today (Oct. 30) at the Whitney Museum. Twenty-five years ago, in our October 1990 issue, a sculpture from Stella's…
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Sotheby’s Announces Sale of Rare Double-Sided Picasso, Monet Masterpiece
Sotheby’s has announced that a rarely seen painting from Picasso’s Blue Period, La Gommeuse (1901), as well as one of Monet’s major Waterlilies paintings, Nymphéas (1908), will be auctioned…
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‘You’ve Got to Get Rid of Your Crutch’: Sam Falls on ‘September Spring’ at The Kitchen
At 31, Sam Falls is something of a luddite. This idea, not quite an ideology, makes its appropriately subtle presence in his work. “I’ve gone through a lot of art by painting and…
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Morning Links: ‘Celebrating Failure Since 1993’ Edition
Linda Yablonsky reports on Havana’s rich art scene. [W Magazine] The Museum of Bad Art is celebrating its 21st birthday. [The Creator’s Project] The $16 million SeaGlass carousel, funded…
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