The late artist Matthew Wong broke into the art world around 2017 with his luminous landscapes: blue mountains blanketed with snow, frozen lakes, hypnotic skies composed of cobblestone brushstrokes. Melancholic and mosaic, his art was heralded as a worthy successor of Vincent van Gogh—with intriguing elements of Fauvism and Gustav […]
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0 Five days before Russia invaded Ukraine, a towering image of a Ukrainian warrior appeared on the exterior of a building in Oakland, California. The artwork, a striking assemblage of bold, geometric shapes arranged to convey a striding soldier with a shield in one hand and a weapon in the other, […]
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0 Twenty years since the late Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak laid its foundation stone, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is inching closer to completion. A press release issued by Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities on 7 February gave oddly precise percentages to indicate progress. While 100% of the structural work, […]
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0 “Women Painting Women,” which opens on May 15, presents the work of 46 female and femme-identifying portraitists whose work has been divided into four main themes: “The Body,” “Nature Personified,” “Color as Portrait,” and “Selfhood.” Included are artists like Neel, Jenny Saville, Sylvia Sleigh, and Lisa Yuskavage. In preparation for […]
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0 A wooden figure from the early Roman period has been unearthed during work on the future HS2 high-speed railway line in the UK.The figure, believed to be about 2,000 years old, was recovered in July from a water-logged Roman ditch in a field in the village of Twyford, Buckinghamshire, south […]
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0 He was born in Farnborough, Kent, and raised in nearby St Paul’s Cray, the first child of William Barnes, chief executive of the Mullard electrical components company, and his wife, Eileen (nee Hiley), a seamstress at Morphy Richards. His parents supported him in everything and he had a happy childhood. […]
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0 Albrecht Dürer’s journal of 1520-21, written during his year-long escape to the Low Countries from his plague-ridden hometown of Nuremberg, drove Roger Fry mad. When the Bloomsbury artist and arch-rationalist came to edit a 1913 version of the Renaissance artist’s diary, he could not believe how boring it was. Instead […]
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0 Kendra Jayne Patrick’s booth was buzzing at Art Basel on Tuesday during the V.I.P. opening as visitors crowded in to admire — and consider buying — pieces by the tapestry artist Qualeasha Wood, whose work is currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the past, Patrick would […]
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0 The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has announced Diana Jocelyn Greenwold as the inaugural Lunder Curator of American Art and Sol Jung as the inaugural Shirley Z. Johnson Assistant Curator of Japanese Art. Greenwold, who was named to her role in September 2021, holds a BA from Yale University […]
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0 Hindman Auctions set a new world auction record for Martin Wong’s Persuit (El Que Gane Pierde – He Who Wins Looses), 1984, which sold for $1.1 million in its Post War & Contemporary Art Auction. Offered with an estimate of $500,000 to $700,000, the work saw competitive bidding and received strong […]
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