Figurative

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (82+ words) gallery.ca Marion Wagschal: Painting the Unspeakable For more than six decades, Marion Wagschal has returned to one enduring subject: the human figure. In her paintings, the body is never simply a physical presence: it is a carrier of memory,…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (241+ words) Japanese Art and the Flow of Beauty – Birds, Landscapes, and Lotus The Hiroshima Museum of Art says, “A Japanese-style painter in Kyoto circle, and active as one of the representative pupils of Seiho Takeuchi during and after World War II....

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (185+ words) Gazing Up at the Sacred Mountain (Executed circa 1950s.) by Shiko Munakata - For Sale artsy.net Renowned for his expressive black and white woodblock prints on Buddhist themes, Shikō Munakata was one of the most highly acclaimed artists of 20th-century Japan....

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (55+ words) The vocabulary reflexively applied to Ana Mendieta’s work, especially her land-based body imprints, brims with a romance of primordial forces: ritual, spiritual, numinous. The Cuban American artist called it “magic,” a word that feels at odds with the logic of…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago   (235+ words) The director unveils a sublime and contemplative film depicting the paintings and creative practice of her friend and artist, Lera Dubitskaya. This beautifully shot and reflective short, titled It’s Not For Me, unfolds as an intimate creative collaboration between director…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (574+ words) The inauguration of “Untold Story” took place at Alliance Française de Dhaka (AFD) on September 1, 2026, on a calming evening of drizzle, as if the sky knew to be gentle that night. Frédéric Inza, Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (376+ words) Alejandra de Argos David Hockney, Life in Full Color The Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris hosts the largest retrospective devoted to David Hockney, one of the most innovative and life-affirming artists of our time. With more than 400 works, the exhibition…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (625+ words) In the mid-1990s, when I was assisting on a reinstallation of the permanent collection at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, I came across a 1962 collage made of file folder labels that reflected the formal values of Minimalism—repetition, geometric form,…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (652+ words) “In London, when there was lockdown and we could hardly walk to the park, I was looking for some heroes from the past. And Jan Palach, of course, came up, very quickly. “I selected three or four heroes and I…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (119+ words) A black-and-white theatrical poster stacking three torn paper strips of a woman's face into one discontinuous portrait. Adds a second short vertical column of names; the title and credits stay the same. Changes the paper grain from coarse newsprint to…...