Category: Paintings
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Notes: Returning to Felix, Frieze Los Angeles and The Future Perfect
[ad_1] Uncovering inspiration at three of the most compelling art and design destinations in the global circuit Photo by Rigo Ramirez I missed Los Angeles Art Week in 2023 for one very good reason: I wanted to attend my husband’s ceremony to become an American citizen here at home in New York City. This year,…
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Interview: Artist Benjamin Styer on His Fantastical Worlds
[ad_1] A wondrous showcase of form and color at NADA Miami 2023 with LA’s Moskowitz Bayse gallery Image of Letters from the Black Hours, courtesy of Benjamin Styer and Moskowitz Bayse To gaze upon the painted works of Massachusetts-based fine artist Benjamin Styer is to leave the white walls of galleries or art fairs and…
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Painter Dana James – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] This February, Dana James moved into a new studio in Queens, New York and although she hasn’t been there long, the room already speaks to the artist’s work. The open-floor, white-walled space is clean and tidy, devoid of unnecessary clutter and scant in its decorative objects. But upon a closer look, a certain disorder…
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Artist Glen Baldridge on the Process Behind His Wondrous Paintings – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Inside painter Glen Baldridge‘s ninth show at NYC’s Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, Wigwag (on now through 11 February), mesmerizing works—featuring psychedelic creatures with piercing eyes, abstract woodland branches and kaleidoscopic acorns—posses a magnetism that must be experienced firsthand. Baldridge developed a laborious technique to execute these vibrant gouache-on-paper paintings, where the artist soaks the paper…
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Multi-Disciplinary Artist Chella Man – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Fluidity informs almost everything about Chella Man: his painting, performance and sculptural works and his identity as a deaf, trans-masculine, Jewish and Chinese artist. An actor, activist and model and former contributor to them and designer for Opening Ceremony, Man is a multi-hyphenate whose ever-growing list of titles further supports his practice of investigating…
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Tchotchke Gallery Opens Its First Physical Location in Brooklyn – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] In 2020, Danielle Dewar and Marlee Katz founded Tchotchke Gallery, a then-digital art platform that reacted to the parameters of the pandemic. Now, the co-founders are expanding the gallery to its first brick-and-mortar space in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Opening today with a group show entitled Homecoming (on view until 7 February), Tchotchke continues to be…
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Beyond the Art Fairs – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Anchored by the expansive, ever-inspiring Art Basel Miami Beach and the the illuminating Design Miami showcase nearby, Miami Art Week further flourishes thanks to the continued presence of Untitled, NADA, Scope and other powerful art and design fairs. To participate in this exhaustive artistic extravaganza and not step into one of Miami’s own world-class, permanent institutions is not only…
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Frank Stella: “Geometries” – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] For the first time one of America’s most influential artists, Frank Stella, is releasing his new series of 22 sculptural works as NFTs. The collection, entitled Geometries, captures the minimalism and boundlessness between painting and sculpture that characterized Stella’s success, featuring sculptures whose complex shapes are a result of 30 years of exploration in computer-aided drafting,…
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Anthony Akinbola Ponders the Naturalization of Fetish at Sean Kelly Gallery – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Along the front hall and bottom floor of New York’s Sean Kelly Gallery, a taxidermized goat contemplates a self-portrait, durags camouflage themselves as paintings and a diamond hides somewhere between it all. When separated, these elements may feel unrelated. Together, they reveal their relationship to each other—fetish, consumption and beauty: themes that populate Anthony…
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Link About It: This Week’s Picks
[ad_1] An AI art exhibition, a structure that predates Stonehenge, raising awareness about unpaid labor in prisons and more Climate-Resistant Breadfruit Could Help Fight Food Insecurity Many of our most consumed crops (like corn and wheat) will continue to be negatively effected by the climate crisis, leading to food insecurity for many, but scientists believe…
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The Community Conclusion to Damien Hirst’s NFT Collection “The Currency” – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Launched in July 2021, The Currency is an NFT collection by Damien Hirst in collaboration with international art service HENI. It comprises 10,000 NFTs—each of which corresponds to one of the artist’s spot paintings—which could be traded in for the physical artwork. 4,851 token holders of The Currency opted to keep their NFTs, leaving their corresponding paintings…
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Kristen Liu-Wong’s “Hard Pressed” Exhibit Revels in the Stress of Modern Life – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] The women in San Francisco-born artist Kristen Liu-Wong‘s paintings feel familiar. Most are trying and failing to relax, some are masturbating and others are aggressively multi-tasking or reading on the toilet. All of them are trying to navigate the stress that comes with life, be it work or the desires of the id. The figures…
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Textured Works – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Providing moments of invigoration and meditation, this year’s installment of The Armory Show—the acclaimed international art fair born in NYC circa 1994—opens within the sprawling Javits Center (and preceded by a satellite installation off-site) to the public today. Inspiration radiates from the network of exhibits, presented by 240 galleries and representing more than 30 countries.…
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Andy Warhol’s “Cars” Series Opens at the Petersen Automotive Museum – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] In 1986, Mercedes-Benz, in anticipation of their 100th year anniversary, tapped Andy Warhol to create art inspired by their vehicles in what would be his final commission before his unexpected passing. The Pop Art icon planned to create 80 works depicting cars that spanned the German automaker’s history, but he was only able to make 49.…
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Van Gogh Self-Portrait Discovered Behind Another Painting – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Hidden under “layers of glue and cardboard for more than a century,” a Van Gogh self-portrait has been discovered behind the artist’s 1885 painting, “Head of a Peasant Woman.” The self-portrait was revealed when conservators x-rayed the work ahead of the A Taste for Impressionism exhibition at Edinburgh’s Royal Scottish Academy, opening this month.…