Bill Thompson, Toro, 2009, 24″ x 20″ x 7″ Urethane on polyurethane block. Thatcher Projects presents Shift an exhibition of new work by Bill Thompson. From curvilinear and cloud-like to pointedly flexed and bowing, Thompson’s colorful wall structures combine painting and sculpture into a unique minimalist art form.
British artist Damien Hirst poses for photographers in front of his painting “White Roses and Butterflies,” 2008, in London. Photo: Reuters/Kieran Doherty (Britain Entertainment Society) British artist Damien Hirst has made a reputation, and sizeable fortune, from suspending animals in formaldehyde and filling medicine cabinets with pills. Now one of the world’s most successful living [...]
A television crew shoots video of Caravaggio’s “Adoration of the Shepherds”, a 1609 masterpiece, the object of a very public restoration in Italy’s lower chamber of parliament, in Rome, Wednesday Oct 7, 2009. Starting next week, small groups of tourists, students and art aficionados will be allowed to watch restorers touch up the painting in [...]
“The Capture of H.B.M. ‘Macedonian’ by the U.S. Frigate ‘United States,’ October 25, 1812,” circa 1840-50. The exuberant paintings of Thomas Chambers are admired by scholars and collectors of 19th-century American painting. But have there been any major Chambers exhibitions? Not one, at least not until now, with the extraordinary survey of nearly 50 paintings [...]
Something and nothing, form and formlessness, concave and convex, hard and soft, rough and smooth, inside and outside, slow and fast, presence and absence, colour and non-colour, reflection and absorption, surface and depth, clean and dirty, big and small, movement and stasis, austerity and excess, illusion and reality, creation and destruction: Anish Kapoor’s joyful mid-career [...]
Japanese artist Takashi Murakami poses for a portrait at the Blum & Poe gallery in Los Angeles, during the exhibition. In his distinctive “Superflat” style, which employs highly refined classical Japanese painting techniques to depict a super-charged mix of Pop, animé and otaku content within a flattened representational picture-plane, Murakami moves freely within an ever-expanding [...]
Joaquín Sorolla, Female Nude. Oil on canvas, 106 x 186 cm. 1902. The Museo del Prado has broken a ten year old attendance record with its Sorolla exhibition. More than 450,000 persons visited the exhibition which closed last Sunday. The director of the Museo del Prado, Miguel Zugaza, made the informaion public today saying that [...]