There is a moment when you stand in front of an Anthea Shinn painting and the scales begin to melt. The work first appears as an abstract field of indigo and mineral pigments. Gradually, they are reorganized into material and astronomical things. The arc of the gesture suggests the curvature of the spine and the … Read more
This Mets masterpiece is far prettier than this year’s team so far. The dynamic New York family that helped start Amazins in 1962 is auctioning off nearly a dozen treasures from its storied art collection, including a $35 million Renoir it’s owned for 97 years. Oil painting of 1877 lilac woman or “Portrait of Nini … Read more
Exoskeleton, gouache, watercolor, ink and paper, 2024. Contemporary artist Rishika Merchant focuses on constructing complex visual cosmologies. She uses watercolor, gouache, and collage to develop a symbolic language that shapes common stories of nature, cosmology, and humanity. Her work moves between myth and speculation, using storytelling as a framework to reflect time and space in … Read more
How to Be Cultured Menu Art [–> Chinese Literati Painting 900s-Early 1900s One of the longest-running movements in art history, it combined poetry and painting into a single image. “The very idea of a movement that acknowledged the equivalence of poetry, drawing and calligraphy” is “unique,” says Chika Okeke-Agulu, 59, a professor of art history at Princeton University. … Read more