WASHINGTONPOST (Matt Schudel) - Peter Max, whose psychedelic art came to symbolize the ’60s, dies at 88
His work — filled with color-saturated stars and sun rays — adorned posters, coffee mugs and album covers during the Age of Aquarius and beyond.
NYTIMES (Nick Haramis) - The Incredible Art of Being Jeff Koons
For five decades, the artist has made sculptures that are larger-than-life — and also singularly reflective of his own.
NYTIMES (Alex Williams) - Lucien Smith, Art-World Star Whose Career Abruptly Turned, Dies at 37
A phenom in his 20s, he became the poster child for Zombie Formalism before abandoning the gallery frenzy for Montauk.
CULTURCIDAL (John Hawkins) - Liberals Love to Make Things Ugly
One of the things I find interesting is that we’re always told conservatives are Philistines when it comes to the arts.
We just don’t care about the arts like liberals, who are always going on and on about the importance of pretentious, terrible pieces of artwork or how we must give more government money to art museums. Meanwhile, have you ever noticed the sort of art that conservatives tend to find beautiful vs. what liberals like? Conservatives tend to really like the classics. You know, old churches, detailed statues, and gorgeous women. But liberals? Liberals like to push ugly. Ugly art. Ugly characters. Ugly people. It was a couple of posts about comics that I randomly ran across that got me thinking about this : This is not confined to comics either. So much of modern art that liberals champion is hideously ugly garbage. There are many examples we…Open
NYTIMES (Deborah Solomon) - Mary Heilmann, Painter of Vividly Wobbly Abstractions, Dies at 86
An emblem of the obstacles faced by women artists of her generation, she was 67 when her first museum retrospective opened to rave reviews in 2007.
NPR (Robbie Griffiths) - This rising painter reimagines Renaissance art in a cocoa plantation in Cameroon
A new gallery show in London features the paintings of Marc Padeu, playing with themes from Renaissance art and bringing them to his homeland of Cameroon.
A new gallery show in London features the paintings of Marc Padeu, playing with themes from Renaissance art and bringing them to his homeland of Cameroon.Open
NYTIMES (Travis Diehl and Brad Trone) - He’s the Last Great Land Artist You’ve Never Heard Of
Charles Ross spent 50 years building “Star Axis,” a naked-eye observatory in New Mexico. Now his masterwork is ready. How to share it with a changed world?
NYTIMES (Travis Diehl and Brad Trone) - He’s the Last Great Land Artist You’ve Never Heard of
Charles Ross spent 50 years building “Star Axis,” a naked-eye observatory in New Mexico. Now his masterwork is ready. How to share it with a changed world?
NPR (Rebecca Rosman) - Greetings from Paris, where an art installation transformed the Pont Neuf into a rocky cave
The oldest bridge in Paris was draped in fabric last month to appear like a mountain cave, in an installation by the artist JR. Unlike a real cave, though, it didn't provide respite from a brutal heat wave.
The oldest bridge in Paris was draped in fabric last month to appear like a mountain cave, in an installation by the artist JR. Unlike a real cave, though, it didn't provide respite from a brutal heat wave.Open
NYTIMES (Jori Finkel) - How David Hockney Taught Los Angeles to See Itself
A Brit, he became a symbol of the city’s culture, stylish and alienating, with his vivid swimming pool paintings and embrace of SoCal light, hedonism and gay liberation.