Sixties Surreal at the Whitney is a bad trip
The show feels like an undergraduate thesis
Painting
Wednesday
Why is the Met making medieval art perverse?
Spectrum of Desire is somewhere between blasphemous and libelous
Friday
On holiday with Goya
Spending a few days with the artist famous for his brooding ‘black paintings’ was not something I was sure I’d enjoy
Tuesday
The sad decline of painting
Pick up a paintbrush in a state-funded art school these days and you’ll be shown the door
Monday
Inside the traditional art revolution
The cultural hegemony of contemporary abstract art is slowly beginning to crack
Saturday
Georgia O’Keeffe wants you to take your time
The new exhibition at MoMA relies on viewers being willing to hone in on detail
Wednesday
Cape Town, the epicenter for African arts
Wycliffe Mundopa’s art tells the story of Zimbabwe’s patriarchy
Wednesday
When Salvador Dalí met Alice Cooper
‘All of a sudden this troupe of five androgynous midgets in pink chiffon floated in’
Sunday
Evelyn Statsinger’s otherwordly art
The underappreciated artist is getting some well-deserved attention
Monday
Still painting after all these years
While others have postured, Paul Resika has kept on painting
Thursday
Liberty and death: Jacob Lawrence’s struggle for freedom
His tale is not a ‘let’s hold hands and sing for liberty’ triumph. It’s a violent, gritty and gruesome affair
Tuesday
Leonardo in Paris
A stunning journey into the ‘science of painting’
Tuesday
Renoir and the foolishness of chronological snobbery
The latest irony in the spread of ‘cancel culture’ comes courtesy of The New Yorker
