Richard Serra, Who Recast Sculpture on a Massive Scale, Dies at 85
His tilted walls of rusting steel, monumental blocks and other immense and inscrutable forms created environments that had to be walked through, or around, to be fully experienced.
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His tilted walls of rusting steel, monumental blocks and other immense and inscrutable forms created environments that had to be walked through, or around, to be fully experienced.
After 34 years, not one of the 13 works stolen during the largest art theft in history has surfaced but the puzzling peculiarities of the case still draw interest.
In an era of podcasts and influencers, Montez Press Radio is reviving the D.I.Y. spirit of a bygone downtown New York City.
Oksana Semenik’s social media campaign both educates the curious about overlooked Ukrainian artists — and pressures global museums to relabel art long described as Russian.
In her 80s, she created a series of paintings depicting the horrors she endured in forced-labor camps during World War II.
Thanks to a street artist named Frank “Frankey” de Ruwe, a wander through the Dutch capital may lead to a playful discovery or two.
Chaim Soutine’s identity was never integral to his art, even as a Jew whose death Nazis caused. Artists in Gaza, Syria and Ukraine share his universality.
An ambitious new show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art uncovers work by long-ignored artists with the help of loans from Black colleges and family collections.
The museum returned the painting three years ago to the heirs of a gallery once led by a German Jew. But one heir called the payment to MoMA included in the deal “unreasonable.”
He is best known for crawling along the entirety of Broadway in Manhattan wearing a Superman costume, a work that blended satire and resistance.