Articles Tagged with #painting
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Chiquita Banana
Paintings crammed with matriarchs, wrestlers, and girls wearing bananas on their heads—where quite a lot more is going on than first appears.
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Little, Big
Irresistible paintings don’t always need giant frames. An interview with the painter who electrified this year’s Whitney Biennial.
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North American Scum
Blazing, husky paintings that deal with class in America—where everyone has an equal opportunity to be a mess.
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The Four Temperaments
In Thomas Woodruff’s paintings, Hippocrates’s Four Humors afflict beasties, batterflies, and tigers on tender, spooky landscapes.
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Nobody’s Fool
Since the 1990s, Yoshitomo Nara’s paintings, drawings, sculptures, and ceramics of children and animals have infiltrated the world—to the point that it’s difficult to picture contemporary art without them
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Honey Bunny
There’s something subversive about Marc Dennis’s new paintings, and it’s not just all the guns and kittens.
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How to Paint an Oak Tree
Made famous in Alain de Botton’s The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, Stephen Taylor spent three years painting the same oak tree over and over again, in all weather, day and night. In an excerpt from his new book, Taylor walks us through his painting process.
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Boomtown
The post-post-apocalyptic cityscape will see houses built in hammocks, and neighborhoods bound by chains. If you’ve ever felt that urban living depends on a wing and a prayer, welcome home.
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Home Is Where the Art Is
These meticulous, stylized portraits have the visual lure of advertising, but they’re not selling anything, merely asking you to look.