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Dian ParkerObserver |
The artist was called the last Surrealist and the first Abstract Expressionist, but his work belongs in neither category.
Bad boy? Bad art? Clever boy? Making art for the market? You decide.
With a population of only 600,000, Vermont seems to exist outside the confines of the United States, as if it were its own country. Living is...
Volupta was the goddess of sensual pleasure in Roman mythology whose parents were Cupid and Psyche (her name also implies willingness). In Greek...
Salvador Dali was born in 1904, twenty-two months after his brother’s death, who was also named Salvador Dali. His mother often took Dali to see his...
The utter lack of guile in Thiebaud’s work is refreshing, especially in today's world of confusing rhetoric and sharp criticism.
The painter Tom Ferrara met Elaine De Kooning in 1976 in Maryland. Ferrara had been making sculptures that, she told him, “look like Bill’s...
Sometimes while viewing an exhibition for the first time, one is fortunate enough to experience an unexpected shift of attitude. Such was my...
Skulls and feathers, bodies and mountains, bones and shells are highlighted against blue skies and blue walls in “Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry...
The angle of a doorframe, an open window, a table laid with fruit and teacup, a dog perched on a checkered tablecloth—all these moments of everyday...
During one three-year period of creative output, Alberto Giacometti was able to fit every piece that he had made into six matchboxes, which he then...
“The progression of a painter’s work,” wrote Rothko, “as it travels in time from point to point, will be toward clarity, toward the...
“The main theme of the exhibition has to do with looking and being looked at,” Celia Paul told me. “I wanted to try and subvert the notion of...
Artist Jim Dine is a painter, sculptor, printmaker and poet—one who exemplifies what it takes to master a craft. He works seven days a week, 365...