Kehinde Wiley On the World Stage: A Conversation With the Artist
By Kiša Lala Kehinde Wiley's Benediter Brkou (The World Stage: Israel), 2011, oil and gold and silver enamel on canvas. Private Collection. © Ke...
By Kiša Lala Kehinde Wiley's Benediter Brkou (The World Stage: Israel), 2011, oil and gold and silver enamel on canvas. Private Collection. © Ke...
Posted 03.05.2012
Kehinde Wiley's paintings challenge our conventional views of portraiture by featuring black men in a mix of regal and street poses, using the brighte...
Leo Stutzin | Posted 05.01.2012
To look at Rineke Dijkstra's images of a teen-aged girl on a beach or a Portuguese bullfighter who has just emerged from the ring is to see the subject. The person in front of the camera is all that matters, not the person who released the shutter.
Posted 02.06.2012
In July of 2011, the art world lost Lucian Freud, a brilliant mind and a world renown artist who was known for his striking, uncomfortable depictions ...
Posted 03.27.2012
There is something bourgeois, even aristocratic about sitting for a portrait, engaged in the labor of sitting still. That contributes to the unexpecte...
Evelyne Politanoff | Posted 03.19.2012
AP | By GREGORY KATZ | Posted 09.20.2011
LONDON -- In a time when other artists spilled their paints on the canvas, Lucian Freud carefully wiped his brush after every stroke. He painted inten...
Posted 09.14.2011
Happy birthday to Rembrant van Rijn, who was born today, the 15th of July in 1606. A prominent painter and etcher of the Dutch Golden Age, Rembrant is...
Posted 08.27.2011
(Via Beautiful Decay) Serena Cole‘s work bridges fashion and traditional portraiture. Showing a mastery of her medium, Serena transforms watercol...
Posted 08.10.2011
American artist Philip-Lorca diCorcia's 'Roid' is an opportunity to see him both develop and set aside the style of his trademark compositions. His fi...
Posted 05.25.2011
(From: Beautiful Decay) Andrzej Dragan's style of photography is gritty and raw. Detail of the skin is usually retouched and airbrushed out by a lot ...
Posted 05.25.2011
A slightly different kind of street art has emerged in New York City. Rather than using the street as the canvas, artist Jason Polan uses the streets...
Posted 05.25.2011
Now on view at the CCC Strozzina in Florence is an enticing exhibit called Portraits and Power. The show deals with the power of portraiture and the ...
Posted 05.25.2011
LONDON-- This week heralds Louis Vuitton's Young Arts Project's inaugural "academy" -- a five-day intensive workshop that is a part of the larger prog...
New Yorker | Posted 05.25.2011
This past September, when nearly all the world's leaders were in New York for a meeting of the United Nations, Platon, a staff photographer for this m...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Tracy Raver's photos of babies--particularly sleeping babies--are adorable. The Nebraska-based photographer appeared on the Today Show Friday, Septem...
Kisa Lala | Posted 04.16.2012