An Impressionist’s Ode to Male Sensuality
CHICAGO — The Impressionist artists working in France in the 1800s clearly liked women. While landscapes and still lifes studded
The Prescient Politics of Nancy Buchanan’s Art
LOS ANGELES — Truthfully, Nancy Buchanan: A Retrospective at the Brick, a comprehensive survey of the LA-based artist’s work, is
Seeing New Mexico Through the Looking Glass
SANTA FE — In 1998, science fiction writer Ted Chiang published “Story of Your Life,” in which aliens come to
The Shocking Allure of Erotic Abstraction
LONDON — Some of the Courtauld’s previous exhibitions have suffered from insufficient curation. Abstract Erotic: Louise Bourgeois, Alice Adams, Eva Hesse,
Adrift in Betye Saar’s Crepuscular Dreamscape
SAN MARINO, Calif. — Standing in the gallery of Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight, you are bathed in oceanic, cobalt blue
Is Jenny Saville the UK’s Greatest Living Painter?
LONDON — Of all the YBAs (Young British Artists) of the 1990s — including upstarts like Damien Hirst and Tracey
The Life-or-Death Art of Hamad Butt
LONDON — There is something both frightening and fascinating about a sculpture that could kill you. Hamad Butt’s Familiars (1992)
Sandra Poulson’s Haunted House
The Surrealists understood that so much depends on context: What is ordinary lining a glove, for instance, becomes grotesque in