Artists, being people, are drawn to power. Like moths to a flame. What they do in their work with the relationship they seek with it can vary widely. But rarely is power just ignored. A sizable new ...
"Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India" at the UC Berkeley Art Museum has a problem in common with most contemporary art exhibitions that travel across cultures. It requires so much explanation that we ...
Curved lines and block colors in shades of orange, yellow and blue create the image of an artist, framed by a border of abstract shapes. Look a little closer and you can see the artist’s beret with ...
HOW great is Soviet Russia’s storehouse of modern art, still largely hidden away in the storerooms of Leningrad’s Hermitage Museum? Answer last week from a man with firsthand knowledge: “The Hermitage ...
In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. Now on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art is a ...
Artists, being people, are drawn to power. Like moths to a flame. What they do in their work with the relationship they seek with it can vary widely. But rarely is power just ignored. A sizable new ...