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For the first time, the American artist Paul McCarthy is having a survey dedicated entirely to his drawings and works on paper, opening this February at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. A provocateur who is best known for his performance and video art, McCarthy’s work is often grotesque and sarcastic, deriding American icons by […] More
Tuesday, January 28–Sunday, March 8 Peter Saul, from the private collection of KAWS & Julia Chiang. 1. “Collectouples: Works from the Private Collections of Julia Chiang & KAWS, Rachel Feinstein & John Currin, April Gornik & Eric Fischl, and Mickalene Thomas & Racquel Chevremont” at the New York Academy of Art What’s better than one […] More
When two Russian soldiers arrived to the Auschwitz concentration camp on January 27, 1945, the guards were gone but 7,000 survivors remained, including many children. Now, one of those children, Marta Wise, is among 75 subjects in a poignant new photography exhibition that captures the portraits of Holocaust survivors. The show, “Survivors – Faces of […] More
A portrait of the French playwright and legendary bohemian Alfred Jarry, with his long dark hair and manicured goatee that evokes , appears alongside family photos in Linda Klieger Stillman’s home in Potomac, Maryland. In fact, art and memorabilia related to the proto-Dadaist and inventor of “pataphysics” is scattered all over the house, though some […] More
“Envisioning 2001” is the title of the Museum of the Moving Image’s new exhibition about Stanley Kubrick’s classic 1968 sci-fi opus. The name has a double meaning: The show is about how the director and his team envisioned the film ; but it is also—and this may be an even more fun aspect of the exhibition—a […] More
When Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, decided to reevaluate its North American indigenous art collection, uniting objects from its Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, and Yale University Art Gallery for the first time, it looked to the student body to lead the way. It enlisted a trio of students, […] More
Nancy Spero, the pioneering feminist artist who died in 2009, is the subject of a new show highlighting her works on paper at the Louisiana Museum of Art in Denmark. It is the artist’s first presentation in that country. Spero, who was married to fellow artist Leon Golub, is best known for documenting the atrocities of […] More
The portraits of president Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have been a windfall for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Washington, DC, smashing attendance records and serving as a site for many an emotional visit. Now, the two paintings, done by African American artistsKehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, are hitting the road. Beginning in […] More
