Frank Auerbach, Head of Jake, 2008-9, oil on canvas, 56.2 x 56.2 cm./22 1/8 x 22 1/8 in. Frank Auerbach’s paintings are the full results of tremendous application. They may appear sudden -instantaneous even- but they are feats of concentration. Studied yet impulsive, ranging from darkness to radiance and from the declamatory to the subdued, [...]

“Marcel, Marcel, I love you like Hell, Marcel.” So ran a mash note written to Marcel Duchamp in 1923 by the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, one of the scores of women, and many men, for whom Duchamp was a personal fixation, erotic, aesthetic or otherwise. For many contemporary art lovers he is a fixation still, [...]

Jacob Epstein, Torso in Metal from the ‘The Rock Drill’, 1913-14. Bronze, 70.5 x 58.4 x 44.5 cm. Tate, London. This October the Royal Academy of Arts will present an exhibition of works celebrating the radical change that transformed British sculpture at the beginning of the twentieth century. Over a period of 10 years (1905-1915), [...]

Not many big-name movie directors deserve to be called artists. Among those who do, few take the label as seriously as David Lynch. The director of “Mulholland Dr.” and “Blue Velvet” has avidly pursued painting, photography and sculpture in between his idiosyncratic film projects. Starting Sept. 12, the master of weirdness will exhibit some of [...]

Claude Monet, Canotiers à Argenteuil. This autumn Helly Nahmad Gallery presents a retrospective exhibition by the acknowledged principal of the French Impressionist school, Claude Monet. Taking in his diverse styles from the 1870s as he explored a wide range of subjects in all seasons and all types of weather in his commitment to painting in [...]

Jasper Johns, (American, b. 1930), Untitled, 1973, silkscreen, AP 1/25, edition of 100. Fiftieth Anniversary Acquisition, Gift of Jasper Johns An installation of the work of pioneering Pop artists Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg opens at the Columbia Museum of Art on July 18 and runs through October 4. JJ/RR Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg: [...]

In the first exhibition dedicated to Venetian Renaissance sculptor Tullio Lombardo (c. 1455–1532), his romantic approach to portraiture is revealed in four of his greatest marble carvings, which are joined by eight related works from his closest circle. On view at the National Gallery of Art’s Italian galleries in the West Building from July 4 [...]