ARTnews4 days agoReading Material: Books Shaping Artists’ Practices Nowartnews.com - Ficus InterfaithTen artists tell us about a key book they read this year and how it affected their practice. —Eds. FICUS INTERFAITH We love this book so much. Its …
ARTnewsAn American in Paris: How Painter Shirley Jaffe Mastered the Secret of Hard-Edge Vitalityartnews.com - Richard KalinaShirley Jaffe, who died in 2016 a few days short of her 93rd birthday, is the subject of “Une Américaine à Paris,” a luminous retrospective currently …
ARTnewsKid Stuff: Why Have Artists Been So Drawn to Children’s Books?artnews.com - Hannah StamlerREFLECTING ON HIS EVOLUTION as an artist, Pablo Picasso is reported to have said that he spent “a lifetime” trying to learn to paint like a child. …
ARTnewsFrom the Archives: Claes Oldenburg’s Awakeningartnews.com - Martin FriedmanAfter the recent death of Claes Oldenburg, Art in America is looking back on a May 2012 feature in which Martin Friedman, former director of the …
ARTnewsIn the Studio: Dayanita Singh and Her New Conceptions of Photographyartnews.com - Tausif NoorDayanita Singh considers how photographic images inhabit our imagination and affect both memory and life in the present. Born in New Delhi in 1961, …
ARTnewsHow Do Artists Do It? Parsing Their Life Storiesartnews.com - Jackson ArnWe have the Catholic social scene to thank, or blame. It was the year of our Lord 1543, and Cardinal Alessandro Farnese was entertaining guests at his …