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It’s been a busy few years for Iraq-born, New York-based painter Ahmed Alsoudani. In 2011 he was thrust into the international spotlight when he represented Iraq at the Venice Biennale, and in 2012 had solo exhibitions at the Wadsworth Atheneum...
EMERGING is a regular column where ARTINFO spotlights an up-and-coming artist.A recent graduate of Columbia University’s prestigious MFA program, painter Matthew Watson is staking his place in the art world in his first solo show at Joe Sheftel Gallery on the...
Last week, I finally visited the Met’s stellar exhibition, “Matisse: In Search of True Painting.” The show was, as I hoped, a refreshingly engaging experience that breaks down Henri Matisse’s meticulous and academic painting process into sections,...
Artist and contemporary mythologist Trenton Doyle Hancock recently opened his fifth solo show with James Cohan Gallery, “…And Then It All Came Back To Me.” The exhibition of brightly colored, meticulously rendered, multi-layered paintings will be familiar to...
WHAT: George BellowsWHEN: November 15 – February 18, 2013WHERE: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Avenue, New YorkWHY THIS SHOW MATTERS: American painter George Bellows is best recognized for his depictions of boxers caught in the throes of...
WHAT: “Becoming Van Gogh”WHEN: October 21 – January 20, 2013WHERE: Denver Art Museum, 100 West 14th Avenue Parkway, Denver, ColoradoWHY THIS SHOW MATTERS: Vincent Van Gogh seems to be having a moment – or a decade. In 2008 MoMA staged “Van Gogh and...
I had returned from Chicago just a few days before visiting the Belgian artist Luc Tuymans for the first time at his Antwerp studio. While in the United States, it was remarkable to hear people talking about his 2010–11 retrospective at the Museum of...
Natalie Frank began to see in three dimensions for the first time last summer. For an artist widely recognized—despite her very young career—for her figurative paintings and draftsmanship; for someone, in other words, who makes a living by looking, the moment...
Back in May, two paintings by the artist Peter Howson were pilfered from the Art Mart, the storefront of Edinburgh art dealer Douglas Fyfe. The thieves were easily caught. However, after a hearing yesterday in the Scottish burg, a new wrinkle...
Something is wrong with the left arm of the woman depicted in Kehinde Wiley’s “Ena Johnson” (2012). Study the image, and you will see that her forearm and upper arm appear as two different sections, the too-sharp intersection between them making it appear as...
