William Kentridge: A Mind at Boil at Hauser & Wirth
By Carol Real Among the most significant exhibitions this year in New York, A Natural History of the Studio by William Kentridge stands out for its rare visual and conceptual Continue Reading
Levan Songulashvili: A New Atlas of Inner Worlds
In the contemporary landscape, Levan Songulashvili emerges as an artist who weaves the personal and the collective into a profoundly introspective visual narrative. Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 1991 and Continue Reading
Art After Art: Glenn Brown’s Beautifully Twisted Homages
There’s a peculiar stillness at the heart of Glenn Brown’s paintings—an eerie, swirling quiet that both beckons and unsettles. Known for his meticulous transformations of art historical imagery, Brown has Continue Reading
Seduction and Subversion: Marilyn Minter on Beauty, Power, and the Politics of Desire
Marilyn Minter (b. 1948, Shreveport, Louisiana) has relentlessly interrogated the constructs of beauty, power, and desire, creating a visual language that is both seductive and subversive. Through painting, photography, and Continue Reading
Nick Cave: The Art of Listening, The Art of Assembling
Nick Cave is an artist in perpetual motion, a maker who never stops making, an artist whose practice is a call-and-response with the world around him. Born in 1959 in Continue Reading
Emma Webster: Where Worlds Begin and Unravel
Emma Webster conjures landscapes that hover between memory, simulation, and myth. In her 2025 solo debut at Petzel Gallery, That Thought Might Think, she unveils her largest paintings to date—sweeping, Continue Reading
Xu Bing: The Artist Who Rewrote Language and Meaning
Few artists have reshaped the boundaries of language and image as profoundly as Xu Bing. Born in Chongqing in 1955 and trained at Beijing’s Central Academy of Fine Arts, he Continue Reading
Anselm Kiefer: A Life Beyond Boundaries
Born in 1945 in Donaueschingen, Germany, Anselm Kiefer stands as one of the most significant and multifaceted artists of our time. His artistic practice spans an impressive range of media, Continue Reading
The Observer and the Observed: Joan Semmel’s Journey in Self-Portraiture
Joan Semmel (b. 1932) has centered her practice around representations of the body from the female perspective. Born in the Bronx, NY, she studied at The Cooper Union, Pratt Institute, Continue Reading
Qiu Xiaofei: Painting the Infinite Loop of Time
Qiu Xiaofei is best known for his evocatively colored paintings that fuse intuitive and playful forms. Using memory, allegory, and a dreamlike narrative, he draws on both Eastern and Western Continue Reading