News Source: The New York Times
| 11 months ago
New York Police, via Associated Press Salvador Dali's Cartel de Don Juan Tenorio was taken from a gallery on Madison Avenue in Manhattan. The man who stole a drawing by the Surrealist painter Salvador Dali on Tuesday wore only the most basic of
News Source: International Herald Tribune
| 1 year ago
Michael Bodycomb/Frick Collection, New York Pierre-Joseph Redoute's Plum Branches Intertwined, from 1802-4. Michael Bodycomb/The Frick Collection, New York Henry Fuseli's Fallen Horseman Attacked by a Monstrous Serpent, from around 1800, inspired by
News Source: The Guardian
| over 1 year ago
Fount (detail), by Alison Watt Alison Watt, Edinburgh Appropriately titled Hiding In Full View, Alison Watt's recent paintings focus on swathes of lyrically convoluted fabrics that appear to screen unseen depths of melancholic reverie. As seen in
News Source: The New York Times
| over 1 year ago
Algus Greenspon 71 Morton Street, West Village Through Oct. 8 An early contender for best group show of the season, this spellbinding exhibition carries Romantic, pre-Raphaelite and Symbolist art into the present. It segues from 19th-century
News Source: Mail Online UK
| over 2 years ago
What happened when the BBC asked Rolf Harris to paint one of Shakespeare's most famous scenes?...But when I finally got my chance, it was nearly a disaster from the start. I was painting the model Lily Cole as Queen Titania in Shakespeare's A
News Source: The Independent
| 3 years ago
Think of some Americans, for example, and the way they seem to feel about gun control, abortion, climate change, Medicare, Obama. Are there any artists I feel about that way – and if I did, would I put it in print?...Certainly, there are artists who
News Source: The Independent
| over 3 years ago
In 1945, George Orwell wrote an essay called "Good Bad Books". It was about "a type of book which we hardly seem to produce in these days, but which flowered with great richness in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries... that is, the