William Kentridge: A Mind at Boil at Hauser & Wirth
By Carol Real Among the season’s exhibitions in New York, A Natural History of the Studio by William Kentridge stands out for its precision of thought and rare visual coherence. 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
The Aesthetic Agitator: Dakis Joannou’s Artful Rebellion
By Carol Real Dakis Joannou is not merely a collector; he is a catalyst—a figure who transforms the role of art from the confines of possession to the expansiveness of Continue Reading
Emma Webster: Where Worlds Begin and Unravel
Emma Webster (b. 1989, Encinitas, California) paints landscapes that exist between memory, simulation, and myth. Her practice brings together virtual reality, sculpture, and oil painting to explore the shifting boundaries 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
Anselm Kiefer has spent more than five decades working against the comfort of forgetting. Born in Germany in 1945, in the immediate aftermath of collapse, he belongs to a generation Continue Reading
The Observer and the Observed: Joan Semmel’s Journey in Self-Portraiture
Joan Semmel (b. 1932, Bronx, NY) has spent more than six decades redefining how the female body is seen and understood. A painter of striking conviction, she has worked against Continue Reading