NYTIMES (Jori Finkel) - How Paul Williams Built White and Black Los Angeles
A pioneering architect’s archive, long thought lost, was preserved by his family. Now, three museums are featuring the work of a man who broke California’s color barrier.
NPR (Eleanor Beardsley) - Greetings from Trouville-sur-Mer, a beach town little changed since Monet painted it
The Normandy beach town of Trouville-sur-Mer is a two-hour train ride from Paris, but feels a world away, with English Channel breezes and the sound of seagulls screeching through the cobbled streets.
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.
YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - The truth behind the iconic Declaration of Independence painting | NewsNation Live
Artist John Trumbull's iconic painting depicting the presentation of the first draft of the Declaration of Independence to the Second Continental Congress includes several Founding Fathers and delegates together — including some who never signed the document and others who were never in the room at the same time. The room depicted in the painting was based largely on a sketch Thomas Jefferson drew from memory while in Paris. Nexstar's Vinay Simlot reports from Washington, D.C. Get a fast-paced look at the latest from the border to Main Street to the White House on "NewsNation Live." Weekends starting at 10a/9C Saturdays and 11a/10C Sundays. #NewsNationLive NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.
NYTIMES (Zachary Small and Frank Reneau) - While Knicks Fans Celebrate, a New York Artist Fumes
After the Knicks promoted Gavin Snider’s watercolor painting in the wake of their N.B.A. title, one of the most famous artists on social media posted an uncannily similar work.
THEFEDERALIST (Beth Herman) - Wayne Thiebaud Painted The Still Life Of The Great American Summer
This artist’s work celebrates the American culture of family, tradition, and community, which is on full display in summertime.
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.
NYTIMES (Lawrence Weschler) - David Hockney and the Bliss of Not Standing Still
“As important as the boys and the pools and the light,” a memoirist writes, “the most important thing was becoming the driving.” It would inspire an obsession with moving focus into the future.
NYTIMES (Holland Cotter) - Framing David Hockney’s Greatest Art
Whether in Los Angeles, in his native England or traveling the world, the artist always reinvented the world he saw, with psychological insight.
NYTIMES (Jacob Gallagher) - Hockney’s Sense of Style Never Wavered
The painter David Hockney’s clothes roared with mirth and maximalism.