The former British prime minister Winston Churchill was a keen amateur painter and his landscapes frequently come up at auction. But his works do not sell for the sort of sums that might have persuaded him to give up the day job. Until tonight. No tonight, Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque (1943)—the only painting done…
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The advocacy group behind a public work depicting the death of George Floyd says they still hope to show the piece in the city of Minneapolis even though the plan was thwarted last year. Don Perlis’s painting, entitled Floyd (2020), was shown in Times Square in New York last October and is currently on show on a 16ft…
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Indianapolis will soon feel what it’s like to walk inside — and even listen to and smell — paintings in a new experience that takes up a space almost equal to half a football field. The Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields announced Wednesday that it will open The Lume Indianapolis, a cinema-like installation that will comprise…
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BY ZACHARY SMALL August 4, 2020 2:51pm Artist Vinnie Bagwell could hear pandemonium erupting in the auditorium where seven hours of deliberation imploded as East Harlem residents clashed with New York City officials this past October over which artist’s proposal would be chosen to replace a 19th-century bronze statue honoring J. Marion Sims, the infamous “father of gynecology”…
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by VICTORIA L. VALENTINE on Aug 3, 2020 • 1:58 pm ONE OF THE MOST THOUGH-PROVOKING figures in contemporary painting, Kenyan artist Michael Armitageprobes the politics and cultural history of East Africa. His fascinating narrative scenes have a mythical quality and abstract tendencies that draw on aesthetic tensions between European traditions and East African modernism. In early July, Armitage told the Times…
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by VICTORIA L. VALENTINE on Sep 6, 2019 • 11:58 pm LOS ANGELES—A master storyteller, Ernie Barnes (1938-2009) painted from experience. He captured the brawn of football and the quotidian of life in the segregated South. His representational images depict what he saw growing up in Durham, N.C., where black people gathered for communion and competition on porches and basketball…
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