Pat Steir’s color wheel is not the flat, carefully measured disk used to teach children the difference between primary and secondary colors. It’s an immersive, larger-than-life collection of 30 canvasses, each dressed with layers of paint rich in texture and vibrancy. Each canvas seems a masterpiece…

Francesco Clemente"India IV” (2019)Oil on canvas96 inches x 92 inches © Francesco Clemente; Courtesy the artist and Vito Schnabel Projects Flowers resembling marigolds form the ancient diamond shaped outline of a map of India, which marries with a background of dozens of skulls gazing at the map,…

The long tradition of figurative painting has had its ups and downs and its dead ends, but it has proved remarkably resilient in the long run: Artists as diverse as Dana Schutz , Elizabeth Peyton , an

Continue reading the main story The four bronze sculptures embedded in the Met’s Fifth Avenue facade will get an extended run, after what the director called an “extraordinary outcome.” “The Seated IV” (2019), one of the four Wangechi Mutu sculptures at the Met. Credit... Bruce Schwarz, via The…

Back in 1902, four arched facades of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City were left empty after completion. No doubt the then curators presumed they would be filled by great pieces of art created by great White men. One hundred and seventeen years later, renowned Kenyan artist Wangechi…

Pat Steir, Twenty , 2018–19, oil on canvas, 108 x 84". Photo: Alex Munro. Courtesy Pat Steir and Lévy Gorvy. Since the late 1980s, Pat Steir has slung her paint from a loaded brush, letting oils arc and flow in a signature gesture of both creation and sublime surrender. For her latest exhibition, at…

 Art #China #history #impasto #landscapes #oil painting #portraits November 1, 2019 Laura Staugaitis “Civil Rather than Military” (2018), oil on canvas, 82-11/16 × 102-3/8 inches © Li Songsong, courtesy Pace Gallery Li Songsong uses dramatic textural repetition to create portraiture and landscapes…

Following his “ COMPANIONSHIP IN THE AGE OF LONELINESS ” presentation at NGV Melbourne, KAWS now launches his first solo exhibition entitled “HE EATS ALONE” in the middle east. Taking place at the Garage Gallery in Doha’s Fire Station Museum, the prominent artist displays over 40 significant pieces…

During this interview, Kiki Smith was multitasking, wrestling with a cat collar and making granola in preparation for an imminent trip to Europe. The American artist was crossing the Atlantic to finalize several exhibitions, including a survey at the Monnaie de Paris that will be on view until…

Sometimes, an art exhibition that just unexpectedly knocks your socks off, one that unleashes elements so moving, ethereal, that you can't quite describe the feeling. Loie Hollowell 's newest show, Plumb Line , on view at Pace Gallery in NYC through October 19 is a complete stunner. Abstract and…

It’s almost remarkable how regularly it happens. You’re speaking to an established person in the art world and they casually mention Pat Steir as if talking about a parent or pal—not one of the most influential artists of the last 50 years: “Pat suggested I do X,” “Pat introduced me to Y,” “Pat…

Pat Steir photographed in her studio in Chelsea, New York. “All of my work is a search and an experiment,” Pat Steir once said. Born in 1940 and exhibiting since the 1960s, the artist has been honing her open-form approach for six decades. As part of the downtown New York art scene of the 1970s,…

Wangechi Mutu’s “The Seated III” (2019), as part of The NewOnes, will free Us at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (all photos by Laura Raicovich/Hyperallergic) At 9 am, the sun streams from the east down the corridor of 82 nd Street, illuminating the façade of the Metropolitan Museum of Art with a…

Portrait of the artist Helen Frankenthaler The beauty of Provincetown, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, inspired many works by one of the most renowned American artists of the 20th century: Helen Frankenthaler. But though you may notice shimmering ocean blues and tawny shades of sand in her work, don't…

OCT 2019 All Issues Find the RAIL in print Subscribe $50 annually A message from Phong Bui Publisher and Artistic Director Art AMY SHERALD with Osman Can Yerebakan JOHN ZURIER with Erik Lindman HENRY TAYLOR with Laura Hoptman MARK DION with Yasi Alipour ArtSeen Graham Nickson: Eye Level By Aimée…

It’s easy to see what Lee Ufan’s minimalist sculptural installations are made of. To see what they are is more complicated. Positioned in the outdoor plaza around the Hirshhorn Museum, the 10 pieces that constitute the artist’s “Open Dimension” employ found stones and manufactured steel, as well as…

We speak with the pioneering Mono-ha and Dansaekhwa artist about his work, guiding principles and beliefs, and an upcoming project with Tadao Ando Lee Ufan with From Line (1976), Tokyo Gallery, 1977 Lee Ufan is a founding member of Japan’s avant-garde art movement Mono-ha and one of the most…

Brian Donnelly, aka the artist KAWS , is one of the most in-demand talents. Though he started as a graffiti artist and even did a stint at Disney as a background animation painter, it’s his large-scale toy figures that cemented his legendary status. The 45-year-old created a giant floating sculpture…

Wangechi Mutu, The Seated I , 2019, for the Facade Commission: Wangechi Mutu, The NewOnes, will free Us , 2019. Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels. Image courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo: Bruce Schwarz. New York real estate is a rare and pricey commodity.…

News / Facebook Email To By Frieze News Desk 10 Oct 2019 News / Facebook Email To By Frieze News Desk 10 Oct 2019 The late New York artist’s famed ‘anti-crack painting’ in East Harlem has been undergoing restoration since the summer Keith Haring, Crack is Wack , 1986, New York. Courtesy: Getty…

Back in the summer of 1986, artist Keith Haring illegally painted his "Crack Is Wack" mural on an abandoned handball court in a park near Harlem River Drive in one day. He was inspired to paint it after his studio assistant, Benny, had become addicted to crack, and after several failed attempts to…

Yoshitomo Nara, Knife Behind Back , 2000 sold for $24.9 million at Sotheby’s Hong Kong this weekend. COURTESY SOTHEBY’S As protests have roiled Hong Kong over the past few weeks, the art market has continued apace, with major auctions happening over the weekend. On Saturday, October 5, in a…

Sculpting with light means planning for the unexpected, says artist Larry Bell. His newest work, two minimalist red-glass cubes that playfully reflect and refract light, have been installed on the Museum of Contemporary Art’s plaza. And light is, indeed, a wild card. The glass structures, each…

Some giant news in the contemporary art world: Acclaimed street artist Shepard Fairey , who got his start at the Rhode Island School of Design, returns to Providence this month for a lecture, film screening, career retrospective, and to complete his 100th mural, according to RISD. “Facing the Giant:…

As simple as they are joyful, Keith Haring’s artworks are instantly recognisable. For the first time, a major exhibition of his work is being displayed in the UK. Excitingly, the exhibition is being s

OCT 2019 All Issues Find the RAIL in print Subscribe $50 annually A message from Phong Bui Publisher and Artistic Director Art AMY SHERALD with Osman Can Yerebakan JOHN ZURIER with Erik Lindman HENRY TAYLOR with Laura Hoptman MARK DION with Yasi Alipour ArtSeen Matt Kleberg: Trespassing By Gilles…

“Leonardo Drew: Cycles” at the University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMass Amherst features large sculptures and installations such as “Number 142L,” which is made of thousands of pieces of wood. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS Leonardo Drew uses a variety of manipulated materials, such as paper, wood…

When the Korean artist Lee Ufan was first commissioned to do a site-specific exhibition in the plaza of the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden two years ago, he came to Washington, D.C. see what he would be dealing with. The museum, itself designed as a “large piece of functional…

Germano Celant. MARIA LAURA ANTONELLI/SHUTTERSTOCK It seems that the art industry can’t seem to get enough of KAWS, the artist whose birth name is Brian Donnelly, and who is best known for his Pop-inflected paintings and sculptures that riff on The Simpsons , Mickey Mouse, Sesame Street , and a…

Agnes Denes, Wheatfield: A Confrontation, 1982, New York. ASHES TO ASHES . . . Before the recent wave of disquisitions on our planet’s impending demise, there was Agnes Denes’s Book of Dust: The Beginning and the End of Time and Thereafter (1989). A heavily researched investigation of the death of…

On view September 27 through September 13, 2020 “A plain, natural stone, a steel plate—which is a solidified form of components extracted from stone—and existing space are arranged in a simple, organic fashion. Through my planning and the dynamic relationships between these elements, a scene is…

On a sunny June day on New York’s Long Island, Korean artist Lee Ufan was on a geological mission. Backhoe standing by, he visited two quarries to hunt for the 15 boulders he would borrow for his latest commission, “Lee Ufan: Open Dimension,” at the Hirshhorn Museum. The show, which opens tomorrow,…

Kiki Smith © Erik Madigan Heck “I’m just wandering around and I follow where the road takes me,” says the US artist Kiki Smith about her approach to making art and the title of her new exhibition, I am a Wanderer , at Modern Art Oxford. The last year has seen Smith’s multifarious work…

We speak with Nara, one the most important contemporary Japanese artists working today, on the occasion of his second solo exhibition in France Yoshitomo Nara in 2011 Image by Kerry Ryan McFate For celebrated Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara , drawing is as innate as breathing, or even thinking.…

Brian Donnelly in his studio in Brooklyn on a sofa designed by Osvaldo Borsani in 1954 surrounded by riches from his collection. DONALD STAHL FOR ARTNEWS I n 1999, Brian Donnelly, then in his mid-twenties, dropped by David Zwirner gallery in SoHo to pick up a drawing he’d purchased online for…

It’s the kind of soupy late-summer day in New York City that finds the vast majority of acclaimed contemporary artists happily decamped to their cool, breezy studios on Long Island or in Connecticut. But 79-year-old Pat Steir, a floral scarf draped around her, is in her Chelsea studio, surrounded by…

"El cielo lloraba fuego, jamás había visto nada parecido", cuenta el artista español Santi Moix sobre el Hanabi, el festival tradicional de fuegos artificiales de Japón que le ha servido de inspiración para su última serie de obras, inaugurada este jueves en la galería Pace Prints de Nueva York. Se…

Peter Saul, Washington Crossing the Delaware , 1975, oil on canvas. FARZAD OWRANG/COURTESY NEW MUSEUM At long last, Peter Saul, whose outlandish, vibrant paintings have examined American politics and capitalism through grotesque and often humorous imagery, is getting his first New York survey. The…

Installation view of The Seated II, 2019.Photograph: Courtesy of the Artist and Gladstone Gallery I f you’re standing outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, there’s one small detail that’s often overlooked in the building’s grand architecture: the four alcoves that crown its…