The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
As one artist wrote: “Luxury is not found in the cold pixels of our phone or computer.”
Category: Art
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Cuban Artist Ana Mendieta’s Family Fights to Tell Her Story
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
The Cuban artist Ana Mendieta fell from a window of her 34th-floor apartment in 1985. Her family members have been fighting for control of her legacy ever since.
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Meet Joan Jonas, One of America’s Most Elusive Artists
The New York Times – T Magazine:
Joan Jonas’s maximalist, category-defying work combines video, performance, folklore, sculpture and ecology. At 87, she still has no intention of simplifying anything.
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How Contemporary Artists Are Taking Papier-Mâché Out of the Classroom
The New York Times – T Magazine:
A new wave of self-taught craftspeople are using the medium to make playful, thought-provoking works.
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Pat Steir’s Blue Period
The New York Times – T Magazine:
The painter discusses her latest work, her previous career in the New York City welfare department and why she tries to make a brushstroke every day.
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What John Singer Sargent Saw
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
At a retrospective of his portraits in London, where the American expatriate fled after creating a scandal in Paris, clothes offer both armor and self-expression.
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How Does a Day Job Affect an Artist’s Work? This Exhibition Has an Idea
The New York Times – Travel:
Plus: an installation in an Indian palace, a farm shop in upstate New York — and more recommendations from T Magazine.
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Is There Something Radical About Painting Flowers?
The New York Times – T Magazine:
Many artists who made their names in figurative work are now creating a different sort of portrait.
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Against All Odds, New York’s Artist Buildings Have Survived
The New York Times – T Magazine:
Generations of creatives once flocked to the city seeking affordable rent. Now, despite skyrocketing real estate prices, some continue to carve out studio spaces of their own.