Is there such a thing as being too tall to be an artist? Christina Ramberg, the subject of a long-overdue retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, stood 6-foot-1 and considered her height a liability. She grew up in the Eisenhower era, when the average American woman was 5-foot-4 and …
This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times. When Otobong Nkanga appeared on the Art Newspaper’s “A Brush With…” podcast, the host, Ben Luke, asked which piece of art she would choose to live with, if she could choose …
This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times. It is not advisable to attempt to eat off any of Adriana Varejão’s plates. Nor is it wise to ask the artist, one of Brazil’s most prominent and audacious, to serve …
Eunice Golden, whose bold paintings of male nudes challenged ideas about feminism, art and sexuality — although, like many of her peers, she was not recognized as a pioneer until her later years — died on April 3 at her home in East Hampton, N.Y., a week before a retrospective …
Paloma Picasso, the youngest of Pablo Picasso’s four children, vividly remembers sitting on the floor of her father’s studio, drawing on paper as he worked at his easel. “Because I was a very quiet little girl, I was able to stay with him,” she said in a recent interview. “He …
When the Palisades fire swept through Los Angeles’ western hills, the Getty Villa and its collection of Greek and Roman antiquities stood directly in its path. But the building and collection survived because of substantial museum preparation. The city occupies a unique position among art locations: an urban metropolis that …
Traveling down a dirt road through the rolling grasslands of southern Montana, the snow-capped Beartooth Mountains slowly appear in the distance. A metal-roofed, barnlike structure soon comes into view and, beside it, a 25-foot, abstract black steel sculpture by the artist Alexander Calder. On a low-lying stone wall, rusted metal …
Brad Holland, an idiosyncratic artist who upended American illustration in the 1970s with his startling imagery for Playboy magazine and The New York Times’s opinion page, spawning a generation of imitators, died on March 27 in Manhattan. He was 81. His brother, Thomas Holland, said he died in a hospital …
On a brisk morning a few weeks ago on the roof terrace of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the artist Jennie C. Jones was previewing “Ensemble,” her suite of elegant, angular sculptural works for the museum’s annual Roof Garden commission, which opens on Tuesday. Three sculptures glistened in the sunlight, …
Three times a day, a delicate fog drifts from nozzles hidden in flower beds and rolls down sloping hills and into a large clearing in the Khao Yai Art Forest. The white mist unfurls across the landscape like a wave, skimming the grass and enveloping the forest-edged valley, before fading …