To come out the other side. There are two sides, inside and outside. Outside is when you can talk about it, and reaching the other side must feel like a reawakening, and a recognition of the loss represented by the void of what was on the inside. An entire lifetime can contain…
I didn’t know what to expect with this Hockney show at Pace, only that I knew he had been working in France, using an iPad instead of paints and canvas…
Generative AI software for producing visual art, like Dall-E 2 and Stable Diffusion, are having an impact comparable to that of the first cameras on…
Francis Bacon is having a moment. I’m seeing his compressed illusionism and his splayed figuration in a few places recently. The paintings in Christina…
Clarity in political art is difficult to pull off, if the artwork aims to be more than a poster or bumper sticker. Abdulnasser Gharem attains a…
Two immediate modes of appreciation hit me when looking at Charles Ray’s work. The first is the oddball humor. Plenty in this show. Family Romance is a…
The paintings, all similar in format, of ‘characters’, centered within their frames, portrayed from waist up or more closely on the head, hang in one…
These were taken on a recent visit to the Met in New York. There’s a surprising naturalism to the features and postures in these gods and demigods…
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Victor Liu . Art