Louise Aline Barnsdall’s Hollyhock House was intended as a temple of artistic invention. But the oil heiress and patron of the arts, who commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design it, …
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Ranging from the gloomy to the exuberant, or from the grand and tumultuous scenes of hell to the most humble and calm still lifes, Howard Podeswa’s canvases seem to examine …
“Our journey through life is our art.” —Gilbert and George Lehmann Maupin is pleased to premiere a new film which follows Gilbert & George as they prepare for the opening …
The title of Didier William’s impressive solo exhibition here, “Nou Kite All Sa Dèyè“, is Kreyòl, or Haitian Creole, for “We left it all behind” – appropriate, as the artist’s …
Lydia Silvestri says that her mountain education in Chiuro, near the Italian-Swiss border, taught her to take pleasure in “weaving baskets, carving bowls and wooden clogs, cooking utensils, seeing a …
Images of an erupting volcano have been common in Caragh Thuring paintings since the mid-2000s. A semi-submerged submarine began to complement this motif a decade later, by which time clear …
In recent years, efforts by curators to reclaim the histories and careers of black artists who practiced in the 1960s and 1970s have indicated an undeniable expansion of the canon …
Aria Dean, Slaughterhouse, USA!2023, HD video, color, sound, 10 minutes 50 seconds. Installation view, Renaissance Society, Chicago. Photo: Robert Chase Heishman. This slaughter machine worked, visitors or no visitors. It …
Gustav Metzger described the “Cloud Canyons” that David Medalla began creating in 1961 – kinetic sculptures known informally as his “bubble machines” – as generating the “random activity” of a …
Climbing the stairs leading to the Helsingin Taidehalli showrooms, I could already hear the voice of Maija Blåfield. Blafield not only writes, directs, shoots and edits her films, but she …