Helen Frankenthaler, “Flood” (1967), acrylic on canvas, 124 1/4 x 140 1/2 in. (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Purchase with funds from the Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art 68.12) WATER MILL, New York — In “Provincetown Window” (1963–64), Helen Frankenthaler abstracted a…

“The Seated III” (2019) in its niche at the Met (photo by Zachary Small/Hyperallergic) For the first time in 117 years, sculptures occupy the erstwhile empty niches of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exterior. Wangechi Mutu has introduced her quartet of magisterial bronze statues to the museum’s…

Photo: Melissa Goodwin, Courtesy of Pace Gallery “My friend just went into labor!” is what Loie Hollowell greets me with at the door of her Ridgewood, Queens, art studio. “We were on the phone and she said water was trickling down her leg, and I was like, Dude, your water is breaking .” Hollowell…

It’s commonplace that art—painting, especially—rewards close looking. “To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, all in one,” art critic John Ruskin wrote in 1856. Still, in American artist Loie (pronounced “Low-ee”) Hollowell’s case, it’s urgently true. On her intricately layered…

By Lesley M.M. Blume Sept. 9, 2019 8:35 am ET The drive up to David Hockney’s Los Angeles home in the Hollywood Hills is a narrow, winding route, full of hairpin turns. At the top of a hill, his compound is fortressed away behind an expanse of fence, hidden within a barely tamed jungle of palm trees…

Nourished by Kenyan culture, the transnational artist is filling the niches on the Fifth Avenue facade, for the first time in the Met’s history. It’s a step on the museum’s rocky road toward diversity. Wangechi Mutu in her Brooklyn studio in August with a work, “Flying Root I”. On Sept. 9, she takes…

Installation view of Inka Essenhigh: Uchronia at Kavi Gupta, Chicago. At center: “The Blazing World” (2019), enamel on canvas, 60 x 84 in. (all images courtesy of Kavi Gupta) CHICAGO — “A map of the world that does not include Utopia,” quipped Oscar Wilde, “is not worth even glancing at.” Inka…

Ocula Insight Mary Corse at LACMA: Painting Light and Space Sherry Paik Los Angeles 16 August 2019 Exhibition view: Mary Corse: A Survey in Light , Los Angeles County Museum of Art (28 July–11 November 2019). Art © Mary Corse. Photo: © Museum Associates/LACMA. Mary Corse: A Survey in Light is an…

In the summer of 1963, Helen Frankenthaler and Robert Motherwell moved their studios into a white-paneled, three-story waterfront property in Provincetown, on the northern tip of the Cape. “It was literally on the bulkhead. They could leap into the bay from the patio,” notes Alicia Longwell, chief…

Helen Frankenthaler in her New York City studio in 1971. Jack Mitchell/Getty Images American abstract expressionist Helen Frankenthaler , who was exhibiting work from the 1950s up until her death in 2011, started making urgently radical art during a time period wherein urgency and radical thinking…

It’s been a lovely summer for fans of Helen Frankenthaler. Since May, the American artist’s work has been seen in Venice (at the Biennale ) and in Rome (at the Gagosian ), with another show, Abstract Climates: Helen Frankenthaler in Provincetown , opening just last weekend in the Hamptons, at the…

New York Galerie Lelong & Co. May 16 – August 2, 2019 New York Madison Square Park June 3 – December 15, 2019 Leonardo Drew (b. 1961) considers himself an elder statesman of the art world. In his first exhibition, at age 13, he showed a larger than life painting of Captain America. His natural…

Peter Saul. COURTESY VENUS OVER MANHATTAN Peter Saul, the seminal pop artist who was represented by the now-shuttered Mary Boone Gallery in New York since 2012, is now represented by two galleries in the city: Venus Over Manhattan and Michael Werner, which also has spaces in Märkisch Wilmersdorf,…

Tara Donovan, “Untitled (Mylar),” 2011, Mylar and hot glue, Dimensions variable, Site-specific installation. Courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery/ Photo: Christopher Burke Studios RECOMMENDED Transforming the mundane—objects like index cards, plastic straws, rubber bands and even Slinkys—is Tara…

Keith Haring’s work is hard to dislike. For some, this has been his downfall; the critic Robert Hughes called him ‘Keith Boring’ and described his graffiti-inspired art as ‘amusingly facile’. Perhaps

A SINGULAR VISION Artist Lee Ufan at Dia:Beacon in Beacon, New York, next to his work Relatum (formerly Iron Field), 1969/2019. Photo: Adrian Gaut for WSJ. Magazine By Robert Sullivan July 22, 2019 8:33 am ET ON A CHILLY SPRING morning, Lee Ufan is climbing up and around a quarry on the eastern end…

The fast-rising American artist Shara Hughes is widely praised for her vividly coloured invented landscape paintings. We met Hughes in her New York -studio to talk about drawing inspiration from other painters, and why she feels that a good painting is about “going to the edge and not giving away…

New York public art has not been without a stir of controversy. Most famously, Richard Serra’s Titled Arc, a massive sheet of rusted COR-TEN, displayed in lower Manhattan’s Foley Plaza for the better part of the ’80s, was removed after years of outcry. Even art critics questioned whether public…

Florals, for spring? Groundbreaking. For painter Shara Hughes, the obviousness of a May exhibition filled with flower paintings is part of its intrigue. She is an artist with an affinity for making familiar imagery seem fresh and risky. The flower paintings on view at Rachel Uffner Gallery are…

Artist Leonardo Drew in his Brooklyn studio. WORKING IN HIS UNIQUE STUDIO SPACE in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, artist Leonardo Drew simultaneously produced work for two projects. He fabricated “City in the Grass,” which features a trio of towers rising from an abstracted cityscape grounded by a massive…

The sculptor’s first outdoor work in Madison Square Park is a cityscape created from wood, aluminum and colored sand. Leonardo Drew installs his first public art installation in Madison Square Park, a patterned “carpet” 100 feet long with a cityscape. Painted wood towers evoke skyscrapers. Credit…

Leonardo Drew, “City in the Grass” (2019) (photo by Hunter Canning courtesy Madison Square Park Conservancy) The most enduring public art — from Philip Martiny and John Hemingway Duncan’s “Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch” (1892) in Brooklyn, to Tom Otterness’s “ Life Underground ” (2001) in…

The Alpha (East) Tunnel of James Turrell’s Roden Crater. KLAUS OBERMAN/COURTESY ASU W hen James Turrell flew the skies of Arizona in 1974, not yet acquainted with the volcano that would soon become his life’s work, he piloted his tiny plane over the nearby sites of Sunset Crater and Wupatki National…

Contemporary Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara urged visitors to an international aid symposium in Tokyo to try to “imagine” being in the shoes of displaced persons during a speech where he shared his experience of visiting refugee camps in Jordan. At the event held Saturday at the United Nations…

Read our review This exhibition – the first major survey dedicated to Keith Haring (1958–90) in the UK – takes a broad look at this versatile artist’s work, from his anti-apartheid and AIDS activism t

Art & PhotographyFeature The New York-based artist set the world alight with a compulsion to make work with a cause. As his retrospective opens at Tate Liverpool, curator Tamar Hemmes traces his incredible legacy Text Ashleigh Kane 10 June 2019 Almost three decades since his untimely passing in 1991…

Keith Haring , at Tate Liverpool, is a true surprise: a show of unexpected jubilance and beauty. The American artist was only 31 when he died in 1990, and it is almost beyond belief that some of the m

Main content Artist Keith Haring’s first UK exhibition Haring campaigned against apartheid, the dangers of crack cocaine and spent his last years raising awareness about safe sex and Aids, the illness

The highly anticipated first UK exhibition of Keith Haring’s work has opened at Tate Liverpool. It is vast, covering most aspects of his work and career. This was my first experience seeing so many pi

Pace Prints will present a Peter Saul print retrospective that will include prints from 1966 to the present at both Pace Prints Galleries, located at 521 West 26th street and 32 East 57th Street, from April 27–June 9, 2018. An opening reception will be held Thursday, April 26, 6–8pm at Pace Prints…

The Stars Don’t Lie (2018), monotype with oil-based ink, 38.5 x 29 inches © Shara Hughes. Photo courtesy of the artist and Pace Prints. If you think of a traffic jam of high-wattage colors and way-far

The artist Christo, as seen in “Walking on Water.” Credit Kino Lorber Walking on Water Directed by Andrey Paounov Documentary, Adventure, Comedy, History 1h 45m More Information Short on details but long on delight, “Walking on Water” follows the artist Christo as he creates one of his large-scale…

The artist known as KAWS is famous for his commercial collaborations. Now his paintings are fetching ever-higher auction prices. The artist and designer Brian Donnelly, known professionally as KAWS, in his Williamsburg studio with assistants working on an upcoming show of abstractions for London.…

You’re Highly Evolved and Beautiful , 2019, oil and acrylic on canvas, 68 x 60 inches, courtesy of the artist and the Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York Shara Hughes could well be the best representational painter of her generation, taking the baton from David Hockney, with whom she shares an interest…

Detail from Celia, Carennac, August 1971 by David Hockney, showing his muse Celia Birtwell.Photograph: Richard Schmidt/David Hockney/PA Self-portraits that David Hockney made as a teenager in Bradford along with new portraits produced in Los Angeles will feature in a major show devoted to the…

Installation view of with Helen Frankenthaler’s For E.M. , 1981. (The E.M. is Édouard Manet.) ARTNEWS The Palazzo Grimani in Venice is a capacious 16th-century palace that once belonged to one of those grand Venetian families that produced a cardinal, a doge, a bishop, and other assorted luminaries.…

Where would Van Gogh be without sunflowers? Monet without water lilies? Or O’Keeffe without her close-ups of black irises, whose voluptuous contours reminded some people (to Georgia’s great annoyance!) of female genitalia. From all those great Dutch still-life artists to Magritte and Lichtenstein…

Sally and Peter Saul inside their shared Germantown, New York, studio. Late last month, the husband-and-wife artists Peter and Sally Saul were busy at work in their shared studio building in upstate New York. Sally was preparing for a retrospective of her inimitable figurative ceramics to open May…