In his fluid, luminous paintings and collages, Esteban Vicente conjured an aesthetic utopia. Continue reading
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Features From Previous Issues
Wifredo Lam: From Cubist to Cuban
Melding Afro-Caribbean and European influences, Wifredo Lam created one of modernism’s most distinctive bodies of work. Continue reading
Beyond City Limits
The Philadelphia Museum of Art launches a massive show built around Fernand Léger’s masterpiece The City. Continue reading
Becoming Hans Hofmann
He became a famous teacher in Germany, but it was in the United States that the artist came into his own as painter. Continue reading
Frozen Poses
A showing of works by Italian artist Giosetta Fioroni comes to the Drawing Center in a blaze of silver. Continue reading
Duane Michals: The Wizard of Gramercy Park
Duane Michals has always chosen to photograph the things you can’t see, and now he’s using paint to show us things you can’t photograph. Continue reading
Helen Frankenthaler: Beyond the Sea
The late Helen Frankenthaler famously “departed” from Jackson Pollock with her early stain paintings in the 1950s, but she kept on making departures for the rest of her long, innovative career. Continue reading
Latin Masters
Before the Second World War, in Mexico, Guatemala, Chile, Uruguay, and elsewhere, another American modernism was taking shape. Continue reading
Made in Japan
Postwar avant-garde movements like Gutai and Mono-ha are now getting some serious attention from Western museums and galleries. Continue reading
Roy Lichtenstein Retrospective: National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
In the National Gallery’s huge Lichtenstein retrospective, the iconic Pop images are just the opening frames of the artist’s lifelong comic strip. Continue reading